| Copyright 2006 Julie Shepherd Knapp |
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| The Homeschool Diner's Guide to Homeschooling by Subject Social Studies for Homeschoolers Now, when did that happen? Get the Right Perspective with Timelines and Time Scales by Julie Shepherd Knapp, copyright 2006 "Long ago and far away..." is a great beginning for a fairy tale, but a good time line can help children really understand the concept of "times past". 7 Great Reasons to Make a Timeline from J & K Schooling How to Make a Timeline Timeline Helps from Paula's Archive -- great summary with photos of various styles of handmade timelines How to Easily make a Timeline by Terri Johnson Timelines by Ava Miller -- helpful tips and a summary of the various styles It's About Time -- tips for making a geologic time scale on adding machine paper, also in the form of a clock, and in the form of a football field Timeline-Making Resources You can purchase these supplies, or use combine some ideas to make your own timeline exactly the way you want it. Knowledge Quest -- supplies for making timelines, including blank book, blank wall charts, stickers, CD-Rom resources, etc J & K Schooling --offers a blank, serpentine timeline and figures to color Enchanted Learning - free printable line and table format timeline blanks Classical Home Education -- sells blank timeline sections with stickers, optional pre-history package starts at 2 million BC History Scribe -- a spiral notebook style timeline with blanks for the years Tanglewood -- "Book of the Centuries" format pages, download for a fee A Timeline for All Time -- a spiral notebook with blank pages for each time period, begins with Creation, Christian-focused Sonlight Book of Time -- a blank spiral notebook with only the years labled, required for Core Levels C-100, also, Timeline Figures stickers How to Create a Timeline in Excel -- teaching your older child to do this might be fun, too (here is another timeline tutorial -- from Microsoft) How to Create a Timeline in HTML -- add a timeline to your family's homechool website! KONOS Timeline -- also offers heroic figures series to put on chart Utopia Portrait Gallery -- a collection of public domain portraits that can be printed at no charge, a great addition to timelines Lap Books -- a crafty 3-D way to display facts and artwork for any time period, event, or person, some examples can be seen at Scrapbooking to Learn, Peakmore Academy, Chavez Creative Publishing, Templates by Donovan has directions for various envelopes and folding elements, instructional books and supplies can be found at Tobin's Lab, there is also a Lapbooking Yahoo Group, Pre-Made Timelines for Purchase World History Timeline -- a wall chart companion to the HyperHistory website. recomended by Encyclopaedia Britannica Timelines by COBBLESTONE Publishing -- pre-made wall charts, both World History and American History Free Online Timelines For extra fun, be sure to include the history or your child's favorite subject on your timeline -- sports, video games, horses, desserts -- whatever! :-) Today in History from the Library ofCongress - what happened on this day/month in years past? HyperHistory Online -- an interactive time line of people, events, etc. The Timeline Index -- interactive timelines sorted by category and topic, also offers external links for more info American History Timeline fom the Smithsonian Institute When's Who -- an interactive timeline of history-makers Histories of Women - a listing of online womens' history websites AlternaTime -- a huge list links to timelines on various subjects A Wiki List of Timelines -- a wikipedia entry that links to hundreds of timelines on Wikipedia Do remember that Wikipedia is written by many different people, and is not an authority -- you may want to double-check your facts elsewhere -- but there are some very interesting timelines here that you may not find elsewhere. Edgar Governo: Historian of Things That Never Were -- timelines of fictional places/events, such as Star Wars, Indiana Jones, The Godfather movies, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Sherlock Holmes, Anne of green gables, Narnia, etc. A fun way to get kids interested in studying/making timelines ;-) Bible Time Line -- a listing of events from Genesis to Revelation Geologic Time -- a tutorial from NASA explains how geologists have subdivided and scaled the last 4 billion years on Earth Geologic Time: A Story of a Changing Earth -- a "clickable" time scale, with links to fossils and other interesting info, from the Smithsonian Institute Timeline of Art History from the metropolitan Museum of Art The Food Timeline -- a history timeline of foods, dishes, and recipe books Timeline of Computer History from the Computer History Museum War Scholars's Military History Timeline Musical Time Periods by Redbud Lane Stylistic Timeline of Music History Rock N' Roll Timeline History of Women in Sports -- timeline from ancient Greece to present Timeline of Video Game History -- interactive and linked, by pbs.org |
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