Timelines
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Subject Area: Social Studies | Grade Level: 5
Lesson Length: 45 minutes
Keywords/Tags: timeline, time period, organizing events
Lesson Description: Students will watch a presentation on timelines and make notes.

  • SS.5.A.1.2 Utilize timelines to identify and discuss American History time periods.
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Video : Organizing a Timeline
Instructions: Please watch the following video as many times as needed before starting to go through other lesson pages. Understanding the content of the video is very important since the lesson activities will be all about this video content.
Description: "This video introduces elementary students to a timeline, explores an example timeline about the life of Dr. Seuss, and encourages students to create a timeline to illustrate important events in their own life.
Resources : Timelines
Instructions: Please see additional external resources below. Feel free visit each link to learn more about this lesson.
Timeline Facts for Kids
Simple and easy to read summary on timelines!
Leonardo De Vinci
A visual timeline on famous artist Leonardo De Vinci!
Read Write Think: Timeline
Try creating your own short timeline or a timeline of any event of your choice. Click "Launch the Tool!" On the next page, fill in your name and the title of your timeline, then click start and create a timeline!
U.S. Timeline
This webpage has a timeline of our nation's history. Check it out!
Quiz : Timelines
Instructions: Please complete this quiz by choosing the correct answer for each question. You can take this quiz as many times needed.
Question #1
Timelines can help in understanding when events took place and in which order.
Question #2
"Chronological order" means facts and information are arranged in which the order they happened in time.
Question #3
Timelines go right to left, with the right end being the first event and the left end being the last event.
Question #4
Timelines can only be used if the events took place after you were bo.
Question #5
Timelines can be used for biographies and autobiographies.
Question #6
Timelines go from left to right, with the left being the last event and the right being the first event.
Question #7
Pictures cannot be added to timelines.
Question #8
Timelines must include dates or time periods.
Question #9
Timelines go from left to right, with the left being the first event and the right being the last event.
Question #10
Timelines only have two events, the first and the last. No events are allowed in the middle of the timeline.
Description: This quiz is to help assess the students' understanding of timelines and how to create one.