Timelines

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Timelines

Premade -

We use these (It's a Catholic Website, but they're not "Catholic" timelines) You have to scan down the page to almost the end http://ourfathershouse.biz/shopsite_sc/store/html/page1.html :

The only thing I don't like about them is that 100 years in one culture doesn't match up length-wise to 100 years in another culture. But I love the pictures, descriptions, varied cultures & cost of them -

Making your own -

This year, we're working on making our own just using images we print off the computer. I input Sargon into here http://images.google.com/advanced_image_search?hl=en

These all have great information -

WONDERFUL site http://home.att.net/~bandcparker/timelines.html

We're talking SERIOUS information, here - Her whole site is awesome! http://www.redshift.com/~bonajo/timeline.htm

Using Icons instead of Pictures - http://www.kidsdomain.com/icon/worldi.html

I chose to put our timeline in a "book" made from 6 pieces of poster board. The Poster board is attached to each other at the width ends (landscape mode) and folds out like an accordion and is kept under the couch between 2 pieces of foamcore board to keep it safe.

I printed a timeline and put it across the middle and taped it so that she can put items on the top or bottom depending on culture (this year for the ancients).

We've tried timelines in 3-ring binders, on the wall, store-bought... none of them held any interest for the kids. Even though it seems like a great hands-on project, my kids couldn't comprehend the purpose of them. It felt like busywork and they really didn't like doing them. Susan Wise Bauer calls them "an abstraction of an abstraction" and recommends waiting until middle school - for my kids she was right