Total Duration: |
61 to 90 Minutes |
Materials and Resources: |
Informational Text: Using a Timeline Month of the year date cards for timeline Blank rectangles for students to illustrate birth month Blank Timeline Graphic Organizer tape (used to adhere to classroom surface) |
Technology Resources Needed: |
View various historical online timelines and choose: Timelines: History and Biography Timelines
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Background/Preparation: |
Before starting this lesson, the teacher should have background information for explaining timelines. The teacher should have date cards and illustration cards ready for students to illustrate birth month. If a percentage of students needs remedial instruction, the teacher should also have other cards available for using in a small group setting. |
Before Lesson: Day 1 Activity 1: The teacher will need to introduce vocabulary using a best practice vocabulary model (sample model: say the word, use the word in context and pictorial representation, define the word, apply the word). The words will need to be posted on a word wall. Vocabulary Word List: Past, present, future, timeline, history, grow, change, dates, events Activity 2: Close Reading of Text "Timelines" (see close reading method in background knowledge).
During Lesson: Day 2 Activity 1: Classroom Timeline 1. Give each child a rectangle to write their name, month, and date of their birthdays. 2. Create a timeline with masking tape on the floor and month tags. Invite children to stand on masking tape timeline in the appropriate order of their birthdays. 3. Show children whose birthdays fall in the same month how to look at the dates to see that the lowest number is listed first. This is where the teacher will make a strong connection to students about counting sequencing and timeline-counting sequencing. 4. Make a timeline on bulletin board paper, and have students tape up their birthdays in the correct order. This will serve as the classroom birthday board.
After Lesson: Day 3 Activity 3: My Life Timeline 1. The students will receive a blank timeline frame. The students will illustrate and write a statement to describe a timeline of the past, present, and future (I want to be ________) of their life. The students will present their timeline to the class during a show-and-tell. |
Assessment Strategies |
Students will create a personal timeline of their past, present, future. This formative assessment is activity 1 of After Lesson Content. |
Acceleration: |
Students may choose their favorite story. Students will receive a blank timeline to record events in their story. |
Intervention: |
The teacher will use familiar skills in a small group setting to make learning focused, intentional, and applicable. The teacher will call qualifying students to a meeting area. The teacher will use months of the year, numerals, and/or days of the week to sequence. |
View the Special Education resources for
instructional guidance in providing modifications and adaptations
for students with significant cognitive disabilities who qualify for the Alabama Alternate Assessment.
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