Lesson 1.1 Activity: Timelines and Scale
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The document outlines a classroom activity for students to create timelines based on various historical data groupings. Each group is assigned specific events to illustrate, including vast timescales such as the Big Bang and significant historical milestones. The students must include a timeline title, start and end dates for each event, fostering engagement with both personal and global history.
Lesson 1.1 Activity: Timelines and Scale
- 1. TEACHER MATERIALS TIMELINES AND SCALE Directions: Break the class into four groups and ask each group to create a blank timeline using the worksheet on the next page. Then, assign each team one of the following groupings of data to place on their timelines. Explain that in addition to labeling each event on the timeline, students should also include the following: 1. Start date 2. End date 3. The timeline title, which should represent the data on it. BIG HISTORY PROJECT / LESSON 1.1 ACTIVITY • Group A -- Big Bang (13.8 billion years ago) -- The first stars light up (13.6 billion years ago) -- The formation of our Sun (4.5 billion years ago) -- Early humans appear (1 million years ago) • Group B -- Students’ birth years -- When they started school -- When they went to junior high -- When they’re supposed to graduate from high school • Group C -- Birth of Krishna (3228 BCE) -- Fall of the Western Roman Empire (476) -- Start of WWII (1939) -- The first time humans landed on the moon (1969) • Group D -- Birth of Newton (1642) -- Newton finishes his undergraduate studies at Cambridge University (1665) -- Newton publishes “Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy” (1687) -- Death of Newton (1726)
- 2. TEACHER MATERIALS TIMELINES AND SCALE WORKSHEET(ANSWER KEY) BIG HISTORY PROJECT / LESSON 1.1 ACTIVITY Timeline title: Group A - Long, Long Ago Big Bang (13.8 billion years ago) Early humans appear (1 million years ago)The first stars light up (13.6 billion years ago) The formation of our Sun (4.5 billion years ago) 5 billion years ago10 billion years ago 13.8 billion years ago 1 billion years ago
- 3. TEACHER MATERIALS TIMELINES AND SCALE WORKSHEET(ANSWER KEY) BIG HISTORY PROJECT / LESSON 1.1 ACTIVITY Timeline title: Group B - Our Generation Students’ birth years (2000) When they’re supposed to graduate from high school (2018)When they started school (2005) When they went to junior high (2013) 2000 2005 2010 2015 2018
- 4. TEACHER MATERIALS TIMELINES AND SCALE WORKSHEET(ANSWER KEY) BIG HISTORY PROJECT / LESSON 1.1 ACTIVITY Timeline title: Group C - Human History Birth of Krishna (3228 BCE) The first time humans landed on the moon (1969)Fall of the Western Roman Empire (476) Start of WWII (1939) BCE | AD 3230 BCE 1970
- 5. TEACHER MATERIALS TIMELINES AND SCALE WORKSHEET(ANSWER KEY) BIG HISTORY PROJECT / LESSON 1.1 ACTIVITY Timeline title: Group D - Newton’s Life Birth of Newton (1642) Death of Newton (1726)Newton finishes his undergraduate studies at Cambridge University (1665) Newton publishes “Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy” (1687) 1650 1660 1670 1680 1690 1700 1710 17201642 1726
- 6. STUDENT MATERIALS TIMELINES AND SCALE Directions: Your teacher will break the class into four groups. Each group will create a blank timeline using the worksheet on the next page. You will be assigned one of the following groupings of data to place on your timeline. In addition to labeling each event on the timeline, your group must also include the following: 1. Start date 2. End date 3. The timeline title, which should represent the data on it. BIG HISTORY PROJECT / LESSON 1.1 ACTIVITY • Group A -- Big Bang (13.8 billion years ago) -- The first stars light up (13.6 billion years ago) -- The formation of our Sun (4.5 billion years ago) -- Early humans appear (1 million years ago) • Group B -- Students’ birth years -- When you started school -- When you went to junior high -- When you’re supposed to graduate from high school • Group C -- Birth of Krishna (3228 BCE) -- Fall of the Western Roman Empire (476) -- Start of WWII (1939) -- The first time humans landed on the moon (1969) • Group D -- Birth of Newton (1642) -- Newton finishes his undergraduate studies at Cambridge University (1665) -- Newton publishes “Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy” (1687) -- Death of Newton (1726)
- 7. Date: STUDENT MATERIALS Group name:TIMELINES AND SCALE WORKSHEET BIG HISTORY PROJECT / LESSON 1.1 ACTIVITY Timeline title: