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A Living Timeline - Students research historical events and become part of a living timeline for a towns history. Adaptable for other topics source
A Matter of Time - Seven lessons and ten online interactive activities about using clocks and calendars to measure time in addition to understanding seasons. Lessons include complete plans and printable activity pages source
B.C. - A.D. Personal Timeline - Students understand the concept of BC and AD time by creating timelines of life before and after their births source
B.C. Timeline - A lesson plan for a hands-on activity demonstrating the concept of B.C. source
Calendars - Students learn about solar and lunar calendars, and compare Iroquios and Mayan calendars. Lesson plan also includes printable worksheets and answer key source
Calendars - Students examine the calendar systems used by the Japanese, Hebrew, Islamic, and Chinese cultures, and discover what exact day January 1, 2000 is on other calendars source
Centuries and Millennia Introduction - Historical information, questions, and project ideas for teaching the concept of centuries and millenia. Discover why no one was born from September 2 - 14, 1752 source
Chronology - A lesson plan in PDF format that guides students in understanding timelines by making a timeline of their own lives, then a timeline of a historical event source
Learn the Days of the Week - A printable worksheet about the days and their sequence source
Learn the Months of the Year - A printable worksheet about months and their sequence source
The Seven-Day Adventure - Children write and publish a storybook in which main events take place on consecutive days of the week source
Time - A list of fun activity ideas for learning about time source
Time Capsule - Directions and a printable pattern for making a personal time capsule with a coffee can. Activity is in PDF format source
Time in A Chain - Students increase their understanding of elapsed time by creating a time chain for an upcoming event source
Time Line Maker - An online timeline maker that can be used to make verticle or horizontal timelines of nine events or fewer source
Time Marches On And So Do We - An instructional unit about personal change over time, historical change, and time measurement through multicultural, high-interest art activities source
Time -- Then and Now - Students use research skills, and a hands-on activity to understand the concept of AD and BC source
Timelines: Timeless Teaching Tool - Interdisciplinary ideas for using timelines in th classroom with activity ideas and timeline links source
Weekly Reusable Calendar - A printable calendar for each weeks events source
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