We are going to be doing something with knights and castles in a couple of weeks to coincide with the medieval fair. Does anyone have any good ideas or resources about how to help little kids grasp the idea of a timeline? Or just to understand the difference between hundreds of years ago vs. last year? :lol:
I do not have any fancy ideas but you could make a timeline with only a few important dates. Have your child draw a castle or knight under the date instead of a bunch of words. This way he can associate the picture with the date instead of a bunch of confussing words.
Deena and Jackie probably have lots of links for you to find time line things! They are awesome with that sort of thing!
Edhelper.com lets you create your own timelines (I'm a member for $20/year - I don't know if any part of this feature is available in their free stuff sorry). BUT what it does is allow you to key in certain events and determing how spread out you want it etc...and then print the time line...you can even add family events and import pictures and stuff to the timeline. Anyway...I am thinking of using this with my kids more next year to do timelines for our history.
Not really a timeline, but I had a sheet that I gave my first graders (when I taught ps) for Thanksgiving about things in their homes & things in our homes to help with the concept. I think I found them on line or you could make one.
Ok so I am not Deena or Jackie but I like using time lines. The way I make a time line is to use pictures over a small period of time. If I wanted to do a long one showing recent events and far past events I would put my daughter birthday really close to the end probably using one of those tiny 1 dot Lego's. Then using the regular sized Lego's go back many blocks to where we were learning. I think if your doing a really huge time span that those blocks don't need to be very accurate, just the idea that it takes a lot of them should I hope convey that it is a long, long time. I don't think grade 1kids are going to fully grasp it simply because to them even a month is a very very long time. :lol:
Thanks, ladies! I think I am just going to make a timeline with a few things from history that he knows about and go more for the order of things rather than really getting the concept of something that was 1000 years ago. I need to be realistic for a 3 year old!:lol:
That would be a good place to start! I am looking for a way to convey a long amount of time for our unit on knights and castles. Maybe I should explain it that the knights and castles were in the morning and we are in the evening? :lol:
Sooner Mama would you tell me what you use for your knights and castles and also what ages you are doign this for on a new thread? I am planning for next year with ds10 then 11 and want it to be good! Planned out and extra fun since he may be the only one I am doing next year!
