Using Timelines in Literature

by Laura Guest, ASD
 
Session: Engaging Learners through Technology –Presented by Carrie Day
Carrie introduced so many good websites and tools, it will take a long time to sort through them and figure out which lessons I can use them or which ones to pass along to a teacher. One of the topics was on timelines. We often immediately think of the biographies and historical events in social studies, but she had us brainstorm other uses of a timeline—how it could be used in a math class—by  creating a “when mathematicians came onto the scene”, science—scientific  discoveries or life cycle and uses in literature. I would not have thought to use a timeline program to create a story sequence.  Character development might work too.
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