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Timeline Directions
"Snake" Timeline Directions
From: Crys of JK SchoolingCrys of J & K Schooling sent me the following instructions: One of the best options is to make your line on a "science fair project board", purchased from Target "Walmart, KMart etc...they're about $4). These are free standing tri-fold cardboard that measure about 3' x 3' when opened. It's a bit small, however it's very portable and can stand in the middle of the livingroom when needed and then folded up and put behind the couch when you don't want to look at it. Because of the smallish size, many ppl will make 2 of these. Begin your line on one at 400 BC and continue thru to 1700, and then on the other board begin at 1710 (or so) and continue on to the present. The easy way to make this timeline board; get a dessert size plate from your dishes for the size of your curves and use a yard stick or something straight for making straight lines (you see I'm very percise and technical with all this ;)). Begin your line about 4 inches from the top and sides of your board and using a pencil, draw the line on the cardboard to about 4 inches from the other side of the board. This top portion of your line will draw into the top curve of your dessert plate. Curve your line around (now drawing toward the left), and using your straight edge go back the other way (you're now making the bottom portion of the next line). You will go back and forth, back and forth filling up the entire board. After that first line is drawn on, you will go back and add the lower portion in order to make you timeline about 2" wide, continue back and forth until the line in pencil drawn on the cardboard. Then, using a wide-tipped permanant magic marker (we used blue, however they come in different colors), color in your line. This sounds complicated as I try to write it out instruction by instruction, however just think about what our line looks like, and draw that onto the project board. It's very simple. People have told me of drawing this line (using the above method and a marker) on various things from refrigorator boxes, shower curtains, sheetrock, making a quilt, and painting it directly onto a wall!
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Time & Place Line
From: KC1-Take a large, colorful, horizontally oriented world map...preferrably with each continent a different color. (Of course, could use Geography Matters' blackline map and color the continents a different color...or MAKE YOUR OWN! [s]).
2-Take 2 large poster-boards, vertically oriented, and side-by-side, touching. Draw horizontal lines across to indicate century divisions. For BC, the demarkations are broader than AD....do BC on one side of the posters, and AD on the other. (Can also use Geography Matters' already-made 'Mark-It' timelines...use the unmarked side with no dates).
*Note: I have come to find that after a few years of using "Mark-It" maps and timelines (laminated and written on with Vis-A-Vis markers) that I prefer to have the NON-laminated ones, written on in regular marker so that (a) we don't get accidental erasers, and (b) we can have a permanent record of our maps/timelines of that year of study.
3-With the World Map situated directly above the Timeline, draw vertical lines from map to timeline to correspond each continent with a column on the timeline. I used the same color as the continent to mark the timeline column. (i.e. North America, green; South America blue; etc.)
4-Then we used SL's timeline figures or made some of our own. We'd place them along the timeline as we studied. This way we visually could see the "sweep" across time and continents. Kept the "jumping around" feeling to a minimum for us.
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