Activity Overview
Students can demonstrate their knowledge about a particular city, state or country by creating a timeline of important milestones and events in the history of the place. Students can research the location using school resources and track their findings in a timeline graphic organizer. Then they can create their digital timeline, including illustrations and descriptions of the major events. They should include landscapes, towns, or cityscapes that resemble their country, symbols, flags, and other designs and items relevant to the country. Teachers can choose how many events that students should include. To make this a class project, assign students different time periods to research. Then, students can print them out to be connected!
For an alternative to the timeline layout, have students create a timeline poster to incorporate into a presentation or gallery walk. You can add more than one template to this assignment to give students lots of options and adjust the instructions accordingly.
Template and Class Instructions
(These instructions are completely customizable. After clicking "Copy Activity", update the instructions on the Edit Tab of the assignment.)
Due Date:
Objective: Create a timeline that highlights the important milestones and events of the city, state or country that you've been assigned.
Student Instructions:
- Click "Start Assignment"
- Research the location you have been assigned using a graphic organizer to write important information.
- Choose 5-10 major milestones in the history of this location. Write their dates in the timeline layout.
- Add titles for each event and 1- 3 sentences of a detailed description to answer each prompt.
- Include an illustration for each event using appropriate characters, items, and scenes.
- Save and exit when you're finished.
Lesson Plan Reference
- CCSS: W.5.4 - Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1-3 above.)
- CCSS: W.5.7 - Conduct short research projects that use several sources to build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic.
- CCSS: W.5.8 - Recall relevant information from experiences or gather relevant information from print and digital sources; summarize or paraphrase information in notes and finished work, and provide a list of sources.
- CCSS: RI.5.1 - Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
- CCSS: RI.5.2 - Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details; summarize the text.
- CCSS: RI.5.3 - Explain the relationships or interactions between two or more individuals, events, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text based on specific information in the text.
- CCSS: RI.5.7 - Draw on information from multiple print or digital sources, demonstrating the ability to locate an answer to a question quickly or to solve a problem efficiently.
- CCSS: RI.5.9 - Integrate information from several texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably.
Rubric
(You can also create your own on Quick Rubric.)
| Proficient | Emerging | Beginning | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Event description | All the cells are clearly described with details of the significance of the milestone. | All the cells are clearly described. | Some cells are described. |
| Visualization | The storyboard cells clearly illustrate all the 6 chosen historical moments. | The storyboard cells clearly illustrate some of the 6 chosen historical moments. | The storyboard cells does not clearly any of the 6 chosen historical moments. |
| Evidence of Effort | Work is well written and carefully thought out. | Work shows some evidence of effort. | Work shows little evidence of any effort. |
Activity Overview
Students can demonstrate their knowledge about a particular city, state or country by creating a timeline of important milestones and events in the history of the place. Students can research the location using school resources and track their findings in a timeline graphic organizer. Then they can create their digital timeline, including illustrations and descriptions of the major events. They should include landscapes, towns, or cityscapes that resemble their country, symbols, flags, and other designs and items relevant to the country. Teachers can choose how many events that students should include. To make this a class project, assign students different time periods to research. Then, students can print them out to be connected!
For an alternative to the timeline layout, have students create a timeline poster to incorporate into a presentation or gallery walk. You can add more than one template to this assignment to give students lots of options and adjust the instructions accordingly.
Template and Class Instructions
(These instructions are completely customizable. After clicking "Copy Activity", update the instructions on the Edit Tab of the assignment.)
Due Date:
Objective: Create a timeline that highlights the important milestones and events of the city, state or country that you've been assigned.
Student Instructions:
- Click "Start Assignment"
- Research the location you have been assigned using a graphic organizer to write important information.
- Choose 5-10 major milestones in the history of this location. Write their dates in the timeline layout.
- Add titles for each event and 1- 3 sentences of a detailed description to answer each prompt.
- Include an illustration for each event using appropriate characters, items, and scenes.
- Save and exit when you're finished.
Lesson Plan Reference
- CCSS: W.5.4 - Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1-3 above.)
- CCSS: W.5.7 - Conduct short research projects that use several sources to build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic.
- CCSS: W.5.8 - Recall relevant information from experiences or gather relevant information from print and digital sources; summarize or paraphrase information in notes and finished work, and provide a list of sources.
- CCSS: RI.5.1 - Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
- CCSS: RI.5.2 - Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details; summarize the text.
- CCSS: RI.5.3 - Explain the relationships or interactions between two or more individuals, events, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text based on specific information in the text.
- CCSS: RI.5.7 - Draw on information from multiple print or digital sources, demonstrating the ability to locate an answer to a question quickly or to solve a problem efficiently.
- CCSS: RI.5.9 - Integrate information from several texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably.
Rubric
(You can also create your own on Quick Rubric.)
| Proficient | Emerging | Beginning | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Event description | All the cells are clearly described with details of the significance of the milestone. | All the cells are clearly described. | Some cells are described. |
| Visualization | The storyboard cells clearly illustrate all the 6 chosen historical moments. | The storyboard cells clearly illustrate some of the 6 chosen historical moments. | The storyboard cells does not clearly any of the 6 chosen historical moments. |
| Evidence of Effort | Work is well written and carefully thought out. | Work shows some evidence of effort. | Work shows little evidence of any effort. |
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