Thursday, November 4, 2010

The World Timeline Project: (Miniposter due 11/8; Poster due 11/11)


World Timeline Project

Objective: In order to understand Ancient History, students must have a firm knowledge about the chronology of history and time. To help facilitate this knowledge, students are assigned the task of creating a timeline poster called, Back In Time. The poster will consist of:
a. Poster Timeline from 8000 BC/BCE -2010 AD/CE
b. Mini- Poster timeline from 3000 BCE - 2010 CE
c. Photo enhancements depicting “listed events”
d. accurate placement of events on the timeline

Material: Mini Timeline WKST, List of Events, Poster (color of choice), Markers/Color Pencils, measuring ruler, and ready student!

Procedure:
1. Copy down vocabulary terms of timeline
2. Copy down the List of Events, used on the timeline
3. Create mini timeline (grade 30% of project) from 3000 BC/BCE to 2010 AD/CE placing 30 Listed events on the timeline.
4. Using the List of Events, select 50 or more events (15 in BC/BCE Era & 15 in AD/CE)  
5. Create a large Poster  timeline of 8000 BC/BCE - 2010 AD/CE, accurately placing events on the timeline.
6. Mini-Poster due Monday, Nov. 8th.
7. Presentations worth 10pts Extra Credit

Conclusion: Provide 1-2 paragraphs about what you learned during the project and provide examples during the assignment.
 List of Events:

Mini-poster links coming soon! 
Poster List of Events Link

2 comments:

  1. The question has been asked about the vocabulary. The vocabulary was defined in Friday's bellwork. History, time, chronology, circa, decade, century, millennium, timeline, calendar.

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  2. The question has been ask about how many events are for the Mini-Poster and Poster. The Mini-Poster must have 30 Listed Events (15 BCE & 15 CE), while the Poster must now have 50 Listed Events (25 BCE & 25 CE) from the Link.

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