Timeline WebQuest

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Timeline WebQuest

• Two ways to make Timelines

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Introduction

• Teachers can use timelines to help students
• understand history
• follow the plot in a story
• study how things change over time
• analyze important events in their own lives
• learn about the development of music or art or
  medicine or tax policies (!), etc.
• Youll see examples and then make your own
  timelines

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Task

• You will develop two timelines using common
  software available in schools
• Excel
• Word

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Example of Timeline

• http//www.tomsnyder.com/classroom/AOL/WOMEN_HISTO
  RY_folder/TIMELINE.HTML

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ROLES

• Select a partner to work with.
• One of you will be the "builder"
• One will be the "coach".
• For the second timeline, you will reverse roles.

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Step 1

• 1. Decide on the topic and purpose of your
  timeline.
• 2. Decide who will be builder and coach.
• The COACH will describe each step of building a
  timeline
• The BUILDER will carry out each step.

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Step 2

• Click on timeline techtorial and follow
  directions in the "techtorial" to build a sample
  timeline
• http//www.educationworld.com/a_tech/techtorial/te
  chtorial021.shtml

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Step 3

• Now switch roles and make a sample timeline
  using Word
• http//www.d.umn.edu/tshannon/documents/MakingTim
  elinesUsingWord.doc

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Step 4

• Compare the two types of timelines (Excel and
  Word) and decide which you liked best.

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Step 5

• Using whichever software you choose, design a
  timeline on a topic of your choice and email it
  to Terrie.
• You can jazz it up with pictures if youd like

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Assessment

• Pretend there is a rubric here

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Teachers Page

• OBJECTIVES
• 1. Students will create timelines, using Excel
  and Word software.
• 2. Students will give examples of ways teachers
  can use timelines in a variety of subjects.
• TIME NEEDED approximately 15 minutes for each
  timeline.

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Resources

• Need access to computers with Excel and Word for
  every pair of students.
• Url's are listed in slide 4, and slides 7 8
  (steps 2 3).