Timeline Worksheets

Related ELA Standard: RI.4.5

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Timelines are a visual aid that helps students visualize events that took place in a chronological order. They come in two varieties based on their purpose. Linear timelines show events in a specific time period and they usually only apply to a single subject. When you are working with more than one subject area, that occurs in the same time frame, you would opt for the use of a comparative timeline. Comparative timelines kind of look like two linear timelines slapped side by side. These timeline worksheets will help students understand how to read and create their own timelines to chart events over time. This skill spans just about everything content area in school, even math.

Timeline Worksheets To Print:

Time Me! - A seven step timeline with room for explanations. Start by listing important events, and the date (or year) that they occurred. Then, using your information, put your events in chronological order by writing the date of each event at the bottom of each line and the name of the event at the top.

Using Timelines - We looks at the actual tool and why we use it. This will help you understand how to expand your ideas visually.

Graphic Timelines - We provide you with a detailed explanation perfect for new comers to timelines. These can be used to chart all types of things like: Books you have read. Places you have visited. When new families have moved into your neighborhood.

Class Project - You will need a few supplies to do this one with your students. We will map out the birth dates of all your classmates.

Discovery of America Timeline - Exploration is where the use of a timeline first pops up its head. We practice that with this worksheet.

Dates All Over - Using your information, put your events in chronological order by writing the date of each event on the line and the name of the event below it.

Superhero Debuts - Plot the first comic book appearance of each superhero on the timeline. Don't see your favorite?

Class Pets Timeline - The ages have been filled in for you. Take a survey of your classmates and fill in the names where they belong.

Me! - List important events in your life and when they happened. Ask family members if you are not sure about the dates. Then plot your events on the timeline.

Read Through The Lines - Write the dates or times on the line, and the events in the boxes. This is a nice classic sequence.

Who Was President When... - Study the timeline below. Then fill in the "The President was" boxes. Who was the American President at all of these

Chronological Order - List five events you would like to put on a timeline. Then put them chronological order, using the template that is provided.

A Blank Slate - Decide what you would like to create a timeline about. On the back of this sheet, list five significant events and when they occurred.

My School Day - This worksheet focuses on events that have occurred over the course of a school day. You can make it plain and simple or pick a strange day of events.

Empty - As basic as it can get. This no frills approach is really helpful. A nice outline to use over and over.

What are Timelines?

A timeline, as its name indicates, is a sequence of events that are arranged in a temporal or chronological order to make the reader easily understand what happened first and what happened later. Timelines have a variety of uses and therefore, it is very easy to find them anywhere. Timelines usually have some arrows in them connecting the events and giving away a lot of information. Given below are some of the most useful reasons behind making and reading through the timeline:


To Make An Elaborate Time Table

Timelines are a great way to make your timetables and fix different hours of the day or months of a year for different tasks. In this way, you can organize the workload you have in a given time and are better able to complete all the tasks that have been assigned to you.


To Teach and Remember Historical Information

It is almost impossible to remember all the important dates and events in the history of a specific aspect. However, one can at least memorize the chronological order of the events in which they had happened in a specific time in the part through a timeline. Both the teachers and students can use timelines of a specific history to make their learning process easier and effective.


To Summarize a Lot of Information

Timelines can easily summarize the main points of a text in a picture. Even if the text is more than 1000 words in length, you can easily extract its most important points and draw a timeline of all that has been described in the words. In this way, the timelines give a pictorial representation of something that would have otherwise taken a lot of time to be read and understood. Students also draw timelines in their rough notes to save time and space.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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