Firing up the Brain
WWLT: Plotting Australia's war involvement on an accurate timeline
WWLF: I think clearly
Task: Quick research Skills Below are a list of the major Wars Australia has been involved in. Your challenge is to be the most quick at finding each wars beginning and ending dates.
WWLT: Plotting Australia's war involvement on an accurate timeline
WWLF: I think clearly
Task: Quick research Skills Below are a list of the major Wars Australia has been involved in. Your challenge is to be the most quick at finding each wars beginning and ending dates.
Now that we have established the dates you now need to use this knowledge to create an accurate timeline of these events.
What does a timeline need to have?
Stretching the Brain
Materials needed:
Ruler
Pencil
Eraser
Laptop
Fineliner
A4 piece of paper
Timeline Tips
Plot History on a Line
7. Decide what units of time you will use (days, months, years, decades, centuries, etc.) to divide your timeline into segments. These decisions may be a matter of trial and error, based on the size of your paper.
1700 to 1850 =
150 years/10 years =
15 segment
8. Calculate the number of segments that your timeline will have.
9. Draw a line and divide it into the number of equal segments that you figure you will need.
10. Label the dates on the appropriate segments, left to right
11. Using the chronology that you made of events and dates, figure out where they would fall on your timeline. How will you mark and label them? For instance, you could write on the timeline, attach colored labels, or make a code that refers back to your chronology.
12 If there is not room on your timeline to include all of your chronology, cull some of the dates or make a timeline with larger segments that leave more room
13. If your dates can be divided into two or three smaller categories or themes, try making parallel timelines with identical segment sizes. Then you can see how the theme developed, but you can also compare two or more themes at a time.
What does a timeline need to have?
Stretching the Brain
Materials needed:
Ruler
Pencil
Eraser
Laptop
Fineliner
A4 piece of paper
Timeline Tips
Plot History on a Line
- Decide what the timeline will show: personal events, big political events, events related to a geographic area, randomly chosen events, and so on. How will you choose which events to include and exclude?
- Make a list of events that you wish to put on your timeline.
- Research and note the specific dates when the events that you wish to include occurred. It is a good idea to note your source(s), too, so that you can return later and verify the dates, if necessary.
- List the events in a chronology, a sequence of earliest to latest.
- What are the earliest and latest dates that you wish to include?
- Choose the period of time that your timeline will cover, being sure to include your earliest and latest dates.
7. Decide what units of time you will use (days, months, years, decades, centuries, etc.) to divide your timeline into segments. These decisions may be a matter of trial and error, based on the size of your paper.
1700 to 1850 =
150 years/10 years =
15 segment
8. Calculate the number of segments that your timeline will have.
9. Draw a line and divide it into the number of equal segments that you figure you will need.
10. Label the dates on the appropriate segments, left to right
11. Using the chronology that you made of events and dates, figure out where they would fall on your timeline. How will you mark and label them? For instance, you could write on the timeline, attach colored labels, or make a code that refers back to your chronology.
12 If there is not room on your timeline to include all of your chronology, cull some of the dates or make a timeline with larger segments that leave more room
13. If your dates can be divided into two or three smaller categories or themes, try making parallel timelines with identical segment sizes. Then you can see how the theme developed, but you can also compare two or more themes at a time.
Strengthening the Brain
Which War do you believe this image in associated with? provide evidence to back up your response
Which War do you believe this image in associated with? provide evidence to back up your response