Tuesday, June 4, 2024

WHEN and WHERE Did It Happen?

I'm working this summer with an online student who really wants to nail down all of the events in history that she has heard about... mentioned in a scattershot way here and there... and put them on a Timeline Scroll to show WHEN as well as a World Map and a United States Map to show WHERE.


The best place for free printable outline maps of the continents is The World of George the Geographer. Everything is available as both JPGs and PDFs. You can get many different versions. Here are the ones that we are printing:


We are using the Montessori color coding for the continents.

    green - Africa

    white - Antarctica

    yellow - Asia

    red - Europe

    orange - North America

    brown - Oceania

    pink - South America


First we will decide how far back in time she would like to go. Then we will measure the length of her scroll of paper (I love cash register tape for this; you could also use old rolls of fax paper if you wanted room to write more) and decide on our scale.

    25 foot length of paper

    10 feet = 1000 years

    1 foot = 100 years

    1 inch = approx. 8 years


Then I'm just going to have her name any person or event from history! We can review what happened, if she's fuzzy. Then we will mark it on our timeline with a note as to the location and a colored dot as to the continent. She can get out the relevant continent map and find the location. Easy!

I'm extremely curious to see what events in history she remembers from public school and from reading some fun short biographies. She's read

  • How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous
  • How They Choked: Failures, Flops, and Flaws of the Awfully Famous
  • Caught! Nabbing History's Most Wanted
  • Poison: Deadly Deeds, Perilous Professions, and Murderous Medicines
  • Poop Happened! A History of the World from the Bottom Up
  • They Lost Their Heads! What Happened to Washington's Teeth, Einstein's Brain, and Other Famous Body Parts

    etc.


    So how much did it stick and what does she still want to know???


    Sun Jun 9
    put the following marks on our timeline

      1 in - 2024

      2 in - 2016

      3 in - 2008

      4 in - 2000

      10 in - 1950

      16 in - 1900


      add her birthday


    Sun Jun 23

    put the following marks on our timeline

      28 in - 1800

      40 in - 1700

      52 in - 1600

      64 in - 1500

      76 in - 1400

      88 in - 1300

      100 in - 1200

      112 in - 1100

      124 in - 1000

      136 in - 900

      148 in - 800

      160 in - 700

      172 in - 600

      184 in - 500

      196 in - 400

      208 in - 300

      220 in - 200

      232 in - 100

      244 in - 0
      mark dividing line between CE/AD and BCE/BC


      add eruption of Mt. Vesuvius / Ancient Rome / Italy
      find Italy on map of Europe
      235 in - 79

      add start of the Revolutionary War / Lexington & Concord
      find Great Britain on map of Europe
      add compass rose, Canada, and Atlantic Ocean to map of U.S.
      find Massachusetts on map of U.S.
      31 in - 1775

      add inauguration of George Washington / New York City
      find New York on map of U.S.
      29 1/2 in - 1789


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