Monday, April 28, 2014

Timelines

Timelines*
Timelines contain different types of information and span different lengths of time. The help students understand chronology, issues of continuity, change, and cause and effect. A timeline is a tool to assist with learning; they are a type of graphic organizer. They help students synthesize and evaluate learning and should not be the total of student learning about a topic.


Procedural Recommendations:
1. Select a unit for which chronology/sequencing is essential. Instruct students on the concept of  
sequencing.
2. Determine what increments will be marked on the timeline (1 year, 10 years, etc…).
3. Structure questions related to the lesson/unit objectives that encourage students to think critically 
in choosing items for the timeline or in evaluating items on an existing timeline.
4. Encourage the use of mixed media (words, pictures, photographs, etc…). Timelines can even be 
acted out.


Suggestions for Use:
Primary Grades: Chronicle the day or their life
Intermediate Grades: Historical Events

*Obenchain, K.M. & Morris, R.V. (2011). 50 social studies strategies for k-8 classrooms (3rd ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson.

Here are some timelines created by my social studies methods students highlighting some of the major historical topics we covered while reading A Young People's History of the United States.
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