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Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Creating Timelines
This lesson from Reading Rockets provides a research-based rationale for having learners create timelines in the elementary classroom. Grade level modifications and differentiated lesson ideas are included.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Creating Family Timelines Graphing Family Memories
Contains plans for five 50-minute lessons that ask students to create time lines of their own family and life histories. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used in...
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Timelines for Fun and Understanding
The Southeast Idaho Homeschool Association provides tips and ideas to use timelines and make them fun when teaching. Also explains different types of timelines.
University of California
Ucmp: Sequencing Time
Lesson plan in which students place events in sequence, comparing their life to the history of the Earth.
Other
Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page: Time Line
Supplemental to general biographies. Features some information about Johnson's struggles with poverty and depression. Also includes major works.
Virginia History Series
Virginia History Series: Growth & Development in the Virginia Colony [Pdf]
Follow Virginia as it matures into a thriving colony. Students will enjoy this comprehensive slideshow that includes pictures, maps, timelines, and an original newspaper advertisement looking for a runaway slave. Information on the...
Smithsonian Institution
National Air and Space Museum: Wright Brothers: Who Were Wilbur and Orville?
Classroom activities, interactive experiments, timelines, and other artifacts that celebrate the Wright brothers' first flight.
History Link
History Link: Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History
This "free public and educational resource" provides information on many facets of the history and people of Washington state. There are slide shows, cybertours, maps, documents, timelines, and a section for teachers and students.
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Gilder Lehrman Institute: History Now: The Progressive Era to the New Era 1900 1929, World War I
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn about World War I from the primary source documents contained here. Also contains a short overview, lesson plans, timelines, maps, and images, as well as recommended videos, books, and other...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Graphic Organizers Bring About Good Science Read/writing
This lesson plan uses graphic organizers to engage students in reading comprehension strategies for informational text in science. Venn Diagram, Hierarchy, Time Line, Cluster Diagram, and Flow Chart reproducible pages are included with...
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: Microscopes Help Scientists Explore Hidden Worlds
This is a site full of information about various microscopes and the objects and processes scientists study with them. Includes timelines and interactive simulations.
Black Past
Black Past: Black Past Resources
Browse this informative site to learn about six centuries of African American history. Contains an online encyclopedia of biographies, primary documents, major speeches, timelines, events, and much more. Very extensive!
Energy for Sustainable Development
Esd Bulgaria: Kids & Energy: Energy Timelines: Coal
A short history of developments in the coal industry.
NASA
Nasa: Sts 107 (Space Shuttle Columbia)
NASA.gov provides information regarding the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. Content includes crew biographies, press releases, shuttle images, and scientific data and research.
Digital History
Digital History: The Road to Revolution
A time line and explanation of the many events, including the colonists' interpretations of those events, that led to the Declaration of Independence and the Revolutionary War.
University of South Florida
University of South Florida: The Nazification of Germany
This site from the University of South Florida discusses the transformation of Germany under Hitler. Includes photos, movie clips, web links, lesson plans, time lines, vocabulary, and bibliograhy.
The History Place
The History Place: A New Nation (1784 to 1790)
This site from The History Place provides a timeline of American history between 1784 and 1790. Mentions many famous people and events of the era. Links to John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Adams, James Madison, the Constitution, Bill...
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Texas Project First: The Special Education Process, Step by Step
This guide explains each step in the special education process. In each step, learn what happens, who is involved, and the timelines associated. Tips for parents are also included
Oregon State University
Oregon State University: Rene Descartes
General biography centered on biographical information, including Descartes' works, writings, career, and influences. Content also includes a time-line of his life.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Logs of Straw Dendrocronology
Using straws to recreate tree rings, students learn how dendrochronologists work. Construct a 50-year climatic history on a three-meter time line.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Celebrate!
Students will be introduced to the different federal holidays celebrated throughout the year and will be asked to place pictorial representation of these holidays using a time line.This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls...
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Five Main Types of Graphic Organizers
This site provides information on how to use each graphic organizer. There are also 21 different graphic organizers for you to see.
Oregon State University
Oregon State University: John Locke
This Oregon State University site details the life of the great philosopher John Locke. The site provides a brief bio of Locke, information on his writings such as the Two Treatises of Civil Government, as well as a timeline of his life...
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Storytelling in the Classroom
There are several steps to becoming a storyteller. Find out what they are and be on your way to becoming a storyteller here! Learn how to find good stories to tell, and how to tell them to an audience effectively.