Travel Through Time with Timelines

Course / Grade: 2nd Grade Social Studies

Date(s): May 4, 2015

TEKS
2A, 2B, 2C

Objective:
Students will be able to talk about time in terms of past, present, and future.
Students will be able to read timelines to gather information.
The student will create a timeline of a recent event in their life.
Procedures:
Intro/Purpose (Includes Hook)
Welcome class with greetings that arent seasonally appropriate. Happy Thanksgiving! I know we
are going to have a great first day of school. Spring Break is coming up and after that we have our
Winter Program to look forward to
Class questions: Was that confusing? Why?
Events take place in a certain order of time. A timeline is a good tool to help understand, organize,
and remember those events.
Have you ever looked at a Calendar of Events to see when your favorite activity is coming up? Have
you ever read about the events leading up to the First Thanksgiving? Do you always look at the daily
schedule to see what time we go to lunch? Congratulations! You have already used a timeline.
Direct Instruction
PowerPoint
Do you think it is easier to remember events in order or out of order?
Do you remember our lesson on past, present, and future? What do these mean? [Accessing
prior knowledge]
What is a timeline? When do we use timelines?
o Formative Assessment #1: Thumbs Up/ Thumbs Down. When do we use timelines?
Teacher shows a timeline in sequence. Asks brief questions relating to it to display how it
makes accessing information easier.
Timelines arent just for Social Studies. (Connecting Academics)
How to build a timeline.
Teacher shows a timeline out of sequence. (Guided Practice)
Is this a good way to represent a series of events? Why? Can you help me put these in
order? (Formative Assessment # 2- Sequencing) Can you help me label these events?
Looking at new timeline - How is this new timeline different? Is it easier to read? Is it better?
Why?
Formative Assessment #1- Thumbs Up/ Thumbs Down
Formative Assessment #2- Sequencing with cards

Travel Through Time with Timelines

Guided Practice- Small groups in rotation

Group 1- Stacking cups in order
Group 2- Using a completed timeline to write a simple biography.
Group 3- Walking activity to visualize how time is organized sequentially on a timeline
Independent Practice- Students will be assigned the individual task of creating a timeline detail
either their life or an event in their life (student choice). Timeline will be labeled and illustrated. It
must include at least four events listed in order.
Summative Assessment- Finished timeline of students life, illustrated and labeled, with at least four
events listed in order. Students will present timelines to the class.
Assessment (Formative/Summative):
Summative Assessment- Finished timeline of students life, illustrated and labeled, with at least four
events listed in order. Students will present timelines to the class
Differentiation:
Accommodations: Processing Disorder Give extra wait time after questions before soliciting
answers from the students.
Fine Motor Skill Delay - Give student a larger piece of paper on which to draw timeline.
Small Groups for Card Activity Students will be grouped according to multiple intelligences. Groups
will be composed of different m.is so students may observe how people engage with and solve
problems in different ways. ~ 4 people, 3 groups total
Multiple Intelligences:
Naturalist Categorizing, hands on activity organizing events in small group guided practice
Visual / Spatial Drawing timelines in individual activity.
Interpersonal - Working in small groups to sort card events during guided practice.
Intrapersonal Working on individual timelines.
Logical / Mathematical Helping to reorganize events on power point slide and explain why.
Verbal Working in small groups, writing out timelines, sharing timelines with class
Bodily / Kinesthetic Walking timeline, moving cups to create timelines
Technology
Interactive PowerPoint