Timelines help students to understand history they also assist in giving the student the knowledge of what happened and how much time passed by between events. Timelines are an important aspect of any social studies lesson plan. Putting information into context so the students will have a better understanding of the sequence of events and how those events affect the present and future outcomes of se events. Helping to give students a larger picture of events in history in relationship to other events which took place during that time period and the possible outcomes and effects on the event.
I start every new semester and class by creating a timeline in the classroom that will then hang in the classroom for students to see, (The students themselves will create the time line.) A useful tool created by the students. A group project using a role of butcher-block paper, and color marks. The time lines starts with a line running down the center length of the paper. The students with different colors will add different eventsin relationship to the centerline.
Application such as Xtime lines helps the student to create interactive timelines that to help students explore and create free time lines, which are produced on the computer. Those time lines can then be shared between students and the teacher. I would intend that students using the computer generated line would gain pre-knowledge of the events that are to be studies and then as a group project the students would then create the time line that in the classroom. The students creating their own time lines that are then compared and collaborated on with other students before the art project would help to eliminate the direct teacher learning in the project allowing students to take more responsibility and ownership of the project.
The Xtime line application is easy to use and navigate in, allowing for the free tool to be used by teachers and students alike.
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