4 SS5
LO 1
Living Timeline
Formative
Assessment:
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What is a timeline?
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What is a living timeline?
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What important events in
Instructional
Strategies or Activities:
Using resource materials, gather a list of dates of
interesting or significant events in the history of the state of
Have individual students take on the role of a
person who lived at the time of each event.
Each narrator should be prepared to introduce him-or herself as a real
or imaginary person and tell something about the event, using reference materials
for content. For example, under 1865 a
boy might step forward and say: “I am
Amos Camden Riley. I fought for the
Confederate army in the Civil War. I was
chosen to be an officer in the First Missouri Infantry.”
If you can, have students wear authentic headgear
and/or costumes.
If costumes are not available, some students could
research modes of dress that might have been in use on each date to show how
clothing styles have changed. Have
them make drawings of certain pieces of clothing or fashions and add them to
the timeline.
Summative
Assessment:
Have students locate their places on the timeline
and present their stories. Invite other
classes to listen to