Timelines and Sequencing for Secondary Students
What are Sequencing Activities?
Sequencing activities require students to organize information learning into a time sequence and analyze patterns of historical events. If students can master the art of sequencing they can better understand cause and effect patterns and relationships between events.Why should I plan for students to complete activities that have them sequence events?
- Standards-Based Teaching: Sequencing is a Power Standard that crosses all grade levels and content areas.
- Bloom's Taxonomy Level: Builds knowledge by sequencing and then going into the category of analysis by explaining a key event from the timeline.
- DOK Level: Collect and Display events in sequential order falls under DOK Level 2, and Investigating an events falls under DOK Level 3.
How do I have the students to go to a deeper level of understanding after sequencing activities?
- Have students analyze the cause and effects of several events they just sequenced.
- Have students create a visual timeline of events.
- Have students research key events from the timeline and write essays on the historical significance then and now.
Elements included in my sequencing lessons:
- Print and digital option (Google Classroom and Microsoft Compatible)
- Timeline Cards with images to put in order
- Timeline Template Sheets
- Informative Writing Prompt
- Step-by-step instructions for writing a clear, accurate, and concise informative essay
- Writing Rubric
- Renaissance and Reformation
- Royal Power Absolutism
- Scientific Revolution
- English Civil War
- American Revolution
- French Revolution
- Industrial Revolution
- World Imperialism
- Pre-WWI
- World War I
- Rise of Nazi Germany
- WWII
- Cold War
- Korean War
- Vietnam War
- Khmer Rouge
- Africa Post WWII
- Middle East Post WWII
- Latin America Post WWII
- Colonial Era
- Road to Revolution
- AMERICAN Revolution
- Amendments
- Civil Rights Movement
- American History 1600-Civil War
- How a Bill Becomes a Law
- Presidential Succession
- Road to the White House
- US Presidents
- Steps of a Federal Prosecution
- How to Become a Citizen
- Steps of a Criminal Case
- Landmark Supreme Court Cases
- U.S. Treaties
- 1607-Civil War Timeline (17 Pages)
- Civil War to WWII Timeline (9 Pages)
- Colonial Era Timeline (14 pages)
- Western Frontier Timeline (14 Pages)
- Industrial Age Timeline (14 Pages)
- Immigration 1600-1980s Timeline (14 pages)
- Progressive Era Timeline (13 Pages)
- Imperialism Timeline (13 Pages)
- WWI Timeline (13 Pages)
- 1920s Timeline (13 Pages)
- Great Depression and New Deal Timeline (13 Pages)
- World War II Timeline (14 Pages)
- Cold War Timeline (17 Pages)
- Vietnam War Timeline (14 Pages)
- Civil Rights Movement Timeline (13 Pages)
- Era of Social Change (Nixon-Carter) Timeline (13 Pages)
- Conservatives Reagan and Bush Timeline (14 Pages)
- Clinton and Bush Timeline (13 Pages)
- Obama and Current Events Timeline (13 Pages)
- U.S. Treaties Timeline (14 pages)
- Road to Whitehouse Timeline (14 pages)
- **BONUS Space Exploration Timeline (14 Pages)
Other Digital Learning Products Include Choice Boards, Timeline Relays, Guided Notes, and DBQs, just follow Learned Lessons.
