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This is a tutorial on how to help students keep track of events that occur in history, I believe the best way to remember events would be to make a time line.

Time lines can be used for numerous things such as:

Chronologically arrange past events.
- Innovations in science between 1800 and 2000 – World history -

Represent a person’s life history.
- Depiction of life events along with historical time periods or local events -

Map historic events and time periods.
- History of the universe – Theory of evolution – Geologic time.

Plot History on a Line

  1. Decide what the timeline will show: personal events, big political events, events related to a geographic area, randomly chosen events, and so on. How will you choose which events to include and exclude?
  2. Make a list of events that you wish to put on your timeline.
  3. Research and note the specific dates when the events that you wish to include occurred. It is a good idea to note your source(s), too, so that you can return later and verify the dates, if necessary.
  4. List the events in a chronology, a sequence of earliest to latest.
  5. Calculate the number of segments that your timeline will have.
  6. Draw a line and divide it into the number of equal segments that you figure you will need.
  7. Using the chronology that you made of events and dates, figure out where they would fall on your timeline. How will you mark and label them?

http://dohistory.org/on_your_own/toolkit/timeline.html



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