Every week we do one session of 'History' and one session of 'Famous Lives' our timeline is our go-to resource for both of these topics.
Famous Lives
This primarily focuses on scientists, inventors, or otherwise notable figures from around the world. I try to balance the genders and we tend to cover more Scots than any other nationality (as is clearly not demonstrated by the above photo... achem)Our main resource for these studies is a series of books called 'famous people, famous lives' which are short and well written factual books for children.There seems to be hundreds of them so we are unlikely to run out of topics in the near future.
James Watt and the Enlightenment |
History
I am using our early years to cover wide sweeping historic topics, giving an overall backdrop to our timeline. Our history studies are primarily based on UK history, with a slant towards Scottish history.excuse the plaster...it is the rustic look |
I really love our timeline it is probably the single most useful resource I have ever made for our home-ed studies and it gets used every day to answer all kinds of questions.
The details of our timeline... should you be interested in making your own...
Our timeline is very handmade it runs from 400 BCE to 2020 CE It is marked at 5cm intervals. The increments begin at 200 years long, then 100, 50, 20 and finally 10 years (this is based on a timeline in a book we have about the history of art, it seemed as logical way to start as any) It is hand written in sharpie and biro and then put through our little laminator in an impressive 2 metre long strip.At some point in the future we will have to extend our timeline to pre 400BCE but I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.
Any questions... ask me in the comments below.
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I have been completely inspired by this post, and with coloured card now at the ready, I am about to make a start on our very own timeline. As my DS is utterly obsessed by dinosaurs, our time line will initially just comprise Triassic/Jurassic/Cretaceous periods ; ) Thank you x
ReplyDeleteI hope you don't mind, but having blogged about our own timeline now, I have referenced this page with thanks - credit where credit is due. We're loving our time line ;)
ReplyDelete(ps Its me you've been tweeting back and forth with ;) hiya x)
Of course I don't mind!
DeleteI love your time line, but I'm quite glad I've not tackled dinosaurs... yet...
I'll know where to come when I do.
Ann