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Representing Text in a Timeline
In this representing text in a timeline worksheet, students interactively answer 10 multiple choice questions about timelines then click to check their answers.
Echoes & Reflections
Timeline of the Holocaust
An interactive timeline uses images, videos, primary source documents, and links to informational text to chronicle the history of the Holocaust from 1933-1945.
Up To Ten
The History of Inventions
With the help from an interactive timeline, scholars discover the time and order in which inventions came to be—popular items from eyeglasses to the compact disc.
American Museum of Natural History
How Did the Universe Begin?
The Big Bang Theory is more than a television show. Pupils read how Edwin Hubble observed other galaxies and noticed that the galaxies are moving away from each other. Scholars learn about the idea of the big bang and what happened next...
DocsTeach
American Indian Voting Rights through History
Vote ... it's your right! An enlightening lesson examines the history of voting rights for Native Americans. Leaners analyze primary documents and place them in chronological order. Academics also create a list of other events that took...
PBS
Why Should Women Vote? The Suffrage Question
An online interactive activity asks learners to analyze a group of documents related to the women's suffrage movement and then place the documents on a timeline. The results assess users understanding of the progression of the women's...
National Woman's History Museum
Progressive Era Women
The National Women's History Museum provides this interactive resource that permits users to explore women who played key roles during the Progressive Era in the quest for workers' rights, the Settlement House Movement, the Suffrage...
American Museum of Natural History
You are the Queen
A day in the life of a wasp queen is not as royal as it may sound. Pupils assume the role of the wasp queen to complete an interactive activity that simulates building a colony. They make decisions along the way and note the changes from...
Other
Art History Timelines
An amazing resource of 1,303 artworks by 266 artists throughout history. You can search for artists and works by name and even generate your own tailored time line of images.
Other
Timelines.tv: A History of Britain
This outstanding site offers an interactive timeline that spans the breadth of British history from 1066 to the late 20th century. The timeline acts as a portal to high quality videos originally produced for the BBC that cover a broad...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Climate Time Line Information Tool
A tool that summarizes climate history for time spans from 1 year to 100,000 years ago and beyond. It explores the relation between human development, weather, and climate. Students learn how past climate is measured, provides basic...
BBC
Bbc: News: Collapse of the Ussr 10 Years On
Extensive information about the collapse of the USSR. Includes an interactive timeline from 1985 through 1991, an interactive map of the countries of the USSR with country profiles and timelines, eyewitness accounts of the collapse of...
PBS
Pbs Timeline of War: Terrorism, Iraq, Afghanistan
PBS has put together three war timelines covering the years from 1979 until present along with a timeline of Middle East history from 1916 to the present in an attempt to show how the key events from all of these areas are related. The...
University of Utah
University of Utah: Genetics Science Learning Center: learn.genetics: Clone Zone
Interactive time line on the history of cloning over the last one hundred years. Includes detailed explanations and short animations.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: Global Volcanism Program: This Dynamic Planet
Interactive activity that allows the learner to make their own regional map using layers of their choice such as volcanoes, craters, plate tectonics, or earthquakes. This map of the Earth zooms in and out, highlights essential processes,...
University of Nebraska
University of Nebraska State Museum: Alaska Kelp Community
Discover the ecological relationships of six different organisms living in the Alaskan kelp community. The site also contains an interactive map showing the time line for the spread of the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
University of Virginia
University of Virginia Library: Mark Twain's Memory Builder
A memory game where the player learns more about Samuel Clemens' life, career, and historical time period through a series of questions. Pictures and additional information are provided throughout the game. Different levels of challenge...
The Cold War Museum
The Cold War Museum
Choose a decade of the Cold War to explore on the time line or take a look at the online exhibits. This site has great information about the Cold War.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Painting Presidential Portraits
Want to be president for a day? This online lesson plan will have students exploring the role of our presidents past and present. Through art connections the learners will be led through a series of fun activities on their way to...
New York Times
New York Times: Crossword Puzzle: Immigration
Here is an interactive & printable crossword puzzle developed by the New York Times Learning Network. The theme of this puzzle is Immigration.
Other
Time Toast: Famous Inventions
An interactive timeline featuring inventions discovered between the late nineteenth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century.
Digital History
Digital History: United States Timeline
Explores U.S. history starting in 1590 showing the events that occurred in the country over someone's life span. Move the meter at the bottom to get information about each time period.
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