PROJECT-BASED LEARNING: YOUR TIMELINE

Unit Overview

Welcome to your first project! In these last few units, we have talked about timelines, primary, and secondary sources. For this unit, we are doing a project where you get to create your own timeline! This timeline will be about your own life. In this project, you'll get to map out the key moments in your life so far.

Since we have also talked about primary and secondary resources, you should also create a list of what sources you used, and what kind of resource they are, for this timeline. All of these events happened in your life, so do you think YOU would be a primary source? YES! Are your parents or caregivers primary sources? YES!

Objectives

- Start with your birth

- Have between 5-8 events on your timeline

- Use pictures/drawings AND words

- Have a list of sources

- Have a title for your timeline

- Have your events labeled with dates

Where do I start?

1. Brainstorm the most important events in your life and make a list. (ask parents for help)

2. Narrow it down to 5-8 events.

3. Think of a title for your timeline.

4. Get a sheet of paper and start drawing!

5. When your pictures and words are finished, you could color in your pictures.

6. When your timeline is finished, create of list of all the primary or secondary sources you used or referred to.

7. After you have completed everything, go to the Answer Questions tab on the left. Upload your timeline there as an attachment.

Remember, this does NOT have to be fancy or on a big poster board. A sheet of paper will do. We learned about two different kinds of timelines, vertical and horizontal. You may use either. Below is an example of what your timeline could look like.

Have fun and be creative!