University of California
World History for Us All: Getting Our Bearings: Maps of Time, Space, and History
Understanding history requires students to be able to see the big picture. This teaching unit introduces students to tools they can use to investigate history. Topics covered include cartography, chronography, and maps of space, time and...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: What Is History? Timelines and Oral Histories
Lesson for teaching young historians to retell the past using timelines and oral accounts.
HyperHistory Online
Timelines: Ottoman Empire
Compare the timing and happenings of the Ottoman Empire with other world events of the same time period. Click from this page to related sites with maps, biographies, and other information.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Motivating Students to Read Nonfiction
This lesson plan deals with timelines in connection to nonfiction reading. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Creating Timelines
This lesson from Reading Rockets provides a research-based rationale for having students create timelines in the elementary classroom. Grade level modifications and differentiated lesson ideas are included.
Other
Cuyahoga Falls City Schools: Chronology and Timelines
View this slideshow that explains concepts such as chronological order, timelines, multiple-tier timelines, and understanding B.C and A.D.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Presidential Biographical Sketch
Each student will choose a former President of the United States to research and present to the class. Students will develop timelines based on biographical information found through search engines on the Internet as well as in books,...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Let's Get Going!
By doing this lesson the students will have the opportunity to explore transportation firsts. By exporing this information, the students will make a timeline charting the year when the forms of transportation were invented.This lesson...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Activity: My Timeline Redux
In this activity, you'll create a timeline of your life. This should help you think about how your ideas of scale and history have changed after learning about Big History.
Harvard University
Web Science Resources: A Brief History of Optics
This timeline compiles an enormous amount of historical information from the field of optics. From 300 BCE to the present, strategic experiments, findings, and theories are described.
Other
Expert Learners: Timelines and Parallel Timelines
Timelines are used to depict information and/or events in chronological order, i.e., according to time (or other regular intervals). Read and view examples of interval graphs and parallel interval graphs on this site.
Education Place
Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Understanding Timelines
Brief exercise for introducing young learners to timelines.
EL Education
El Education: Flower City Almanac
3rd grade students at the Genesee Community Charter School created this booklet as part of a three-month Learning Expedition on how and why Rochester became to be known as the Flower City. The product was modeled after a farmer's almanac...