Use This Resource to Add "Flavor" to Your Social Studies

Food Timeline -Studying a particular era in history? Find out what types of food and recipes were eaten/made at that time and make some!

Making and Using Timelines for Social Studies

“Timelines help us understand history. They also tell us what happened when and how much time went by between events.” (Social Studies for Kids.com)

• How to Make Timelines
• How to Make Timelines with Software
• Timeline Templates
• Timeline Crafts
• Online Reference Timelines

How to Make Timelines for Kids

• How to Make a Timeline - Article for Kids
  • Timeline basics
  • Timelines in History
• How to Make a Timeline for Kids

Templates

• EduPlace Timeline Template

• Excel Timeline Templates
• Enchanted Learning Timelines – directions to make a personal timeline and a simple template for a text or linear timeline.

Timeline Template (PDF) from TJ

 

 

 

History Timeline Notebook Template (PDF) from TJ

 

Timeline Crafts

• Personal Timeline Craft from Fisher Price
• Craft : Presidential Timeline Paper Chain – neat idea that can maybe be adapted to other “peoples,” such as Prophets or Companions.or other historical figures.

Online Reference Timelines

• Timelineindex.com – nice resource. Kids can look up information on the timeline by: who, what, when, where, why, which (things)
• Kidipede Timelines at History for Kids.org – not a graphical timeline, but kids can pick out an era and read about it.
• Food Timeline.org – see when foods and recipes came on the scene in history.
• Timelines of History – text based, not pretty, but may be helpful.

Timeline TemplatesHistory Timeline Notebook Template (PDF)

Basic timeline template with title box.

Download Timeline Template

History Timeline Notebook Template (PDF)