For most high schoolers,
it’s a requirement.
A credit of United States History
helps to create
ready to be in community with other Americans
no matter what lies ahead.
One of my favorite blogging topics is
My bookshelves are proof.
You’ll want to make room on your shelf for this one.
Make a Flexible American History Timeline
There’s more than one way to construct a history timeline.
The Great American History Timeline is a flexible resource.
- Put your timeline in a notebook
- Spread your timeline on the floor and spread out
- Place your pieces on a large wall
- Decorate a large bulletin board
- Feature a portion on small wall or bulletin board
- Manipulate history with a floor layout
- Display your work on a trifold board
- Use butcher paper to layout a timeline- and roll it up when you are finished
- Story the timeline in a folder- and take it out as a review to put in order
- Dates & arrows- help with organizing your timeline
American History Timeline for Notebooking Content
The Great American History Timeline is a thorough notebooking resource.
Some students do not respond to timelines.
I have a few of those.
Notebooking is more their style.
These timeline pages make a beautiful history notebook:
- Timeline pages
- Social Issues
Placed in a notebook,
these sheets make a complete
of American History
to present day .
Supplement American History Activities
One of the best ways to learn history is through a variety of authentic media.
Here’s a list of our favorites:
- Documentaries– featuring time periods, events, and people. We’ve been watching John Adams through Amazon Prime (warning: the first episode has a graphic scene involving tarring and feathering) and it’s really brought home the events leading up to the Revolutionary War.
- Biographies– We have a stack of biographies of famous men and women in American (and World) History. There’s no better way to learn about a time period than through the lives of the people who lived it.
- Literature– Fiction has a way of helping us to understand what it was like to live in history. Well chosen fiction works are a mainstay for us.
- Primary Documents– We read The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution just as an example. I’m pretty sure I could teach government with no text other than the Constitution.
Timeline sheets and notebooking pages help to take information learned in special ways
and cement them for students.
Use them for review.