The request for a good and easy timeline tool is one that I hear often. I have found a few sites that are able to create timelines. I have used Google Drawing as well. I however haven't found one that did a really good job and didn't require a login for students to use. I recently found a tool that is based in Google Sheets. The creator of the time line adds Year, Headline/title, Description, and Media to the sheet to create their own timeline. There are optional categories of information like Month, Day, and Color. In the end you or students simply enter the information and the program does the work. Here is an example of a timeline of one of my favorite people, Mr. Rogers. Click on the image below to see the full timeline. Click here to see the Template. It will ask you to make a copy of the document. As a social studies teacher, timelines are very practical to help students visualize events as they unfold to provide context. Students could use them to chronicle the life of a historical figure, a character in a story, scientific discoveries and more. Students could also work collaboratively to create a timeline of events like the Civil Rights Movement, Voting rights for women around the world, or any other topic that makes sense for you. The purpose of a timeline is to pinpoint significant experiences that impacted the person or event. Asking students to determine what experiences warrant inclusion can be a great learning opportunity as students have to justify their choices. Timelines can be created as a class where you chronicle the current events that occur throughout your year. You could use it to create a birthday list of your students including a picture of students and some information about their likes and create a star of the week document for the class. You could chronicle the events you discover in viewing current events or CNN10. You could chronicle the learning that took place in your year. Example, in September we started learning multiplication, in October we created our green screen videos about animals, etc. This could be a great way to demonstrate the learning that has occurred throughout the year. I am sure you have a number of ways you could use this tool and timelines in general. Please share your thoughts in the comments below. Note: You do have to remember to publish your sheet in order for this to work. You can publish the sheet by going to File, Publish to the web and complete the steps to publish the sheet. Then you click on the link tab of the sheet and copy the URL. You share your work by sharing this URL with students, or students share with you by submitting it in Google Classroom.
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