Disclaimer: I received this complimentary product through the
Homeschool Review Crew.
The Printable "Essential Timeline Library" (Grades K-12) is Home School in the Woods ultimate timeline package. With 1,444 timeline figures from ancient to modern history the Essential Timeline Library has everything you will need to help your student create timelines throughout history. The "Record of Time" Printable Timeline Notebook along with the updated Printable Suggested Placement Guide will be an invaluable resource as your student creates their historical timelines. The material once purchased will be emailed to you in PDF format.
What is included in the Essential Timeline Library :
- HISTORY Through the Ages Collection of Historical Timeline Figures (our original 1,263 - figure collection containing: Creation to Christ, Resurrection to Revolution, Napoleon to Now, America's History, 80 Bonus Figures)
- Add- On Pak- 1 (24 modern figures of the 20th and 21st centuries)
- Add- On Pak- 2 (47 modern figures of the 20th and 21st centuries)
- Add- On Pak- 3 (110 figures from ancient times to the 19th century)
- "Record of Time" Printable Timeline Notebook
- Printable Suggested Placement Guide
Here is a Timeline Figure Master Index.
For the purpose of timelines the figures can be printed out 4 ways.
The first option is the notebook size.
You can choose between pictures with text descriptions
or pictures with name and date.
The second option is a wall size.
Again, you can choose between the picture with text description
or picture with name and date.
Each figure is also in gif format so that you can easily manipulate them to the
size that you want. This allows you to embed the images into projects. Maybe
you want to make games, flashcards, coloring pages, lap books, penmanship
notebooks, etc. There is so much more besides making timelines that
the 1,444 figures can be used for.
With 1,444 figures and 130 pages of blank timeline pages creating a timeline can be a very daunting task. You may be asking, where do I place the figures? Home School in the Woods has 3 general rules:
1) Actual Dates: There will be some figures that have specific dates. For example, The Emancipation Proclamation was issued on January 1, 1863. With a specific date you would know to place this figure at the 1863 location.
2) Events that Span Years: For an event that spans years, such as the building of The Transcontinental Railroad 1862-1869. It would make the most sense to place the figure in 1862 when the railroad began construction.
3) People: A person's life has a lot of room for placement. You could place the figure at their birth, death, or a significant event during their life. For example, John Wilkes Booth, 1838-1865. We all know Booth as the one who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865. Therefore, we would place his figure in 1865.
Where to find the Figures...
Example, The First Transatlantic Cable is found in the Add-On-Pak-3. Abbreviated [AOP3-0] markers are in blue, A. There may be times when a figure may be found in more than one set. When this happens it will be labeled and notated.
The figures are on pages that will need to be cut out. In the lower left hand corner you will see that the page is AOP-3-11.
Yup, I made placing the figures into the "HISTORY Through the Ages Record of Time" so much
harder than it had to be. I cannot state enough times
read the instructions,
read the instructions,
read the instructions!
Do you know how much harder it is to place figures onto a timeline when you have a
huge jumbled pile of figures? DON'T ASK. Yeah, I could have
just thrown them all away but that is a lot of ink and paper wasted.
The crazy thing about the whole debacle is that I have been using
Home School in the Woods with my children for years. If anyone should have known
better it should have been ME! Thank goodness it is summer and I can enlist
several children in helping place figures.
The timelines can be printed out with the dates or without the dates.
With previous timelines that my children have done with Home School in the Woods
we have done the accordion style timeline. This time I chose to print the timeline on the
front and back of the paper. I am then going to place each sheet in a plastic sheet protector
and put it into a three right binder.
As you can see the paper that I used was just normal printer paper. In hindsight,
all of the HOURS that it takes to complete a HUGE timeline it is well worth the added
extra expense to purchase thicker paper. Again, I was thinking about the $$$. As I stated
earlier I do plan to place the pages in plastic sheet protectors so that the pages do not get
beat up and ruined. But, if you are new to Home School in the Woods you should know
from the get go that you will be spending a lot of money in printer ink and paper. You may
read this statement and think, "Well I am not so sure about this added cost." Let me say,
I have used a HUGE amount of Home School in the Woods materials. They are all
fantastic. Once you make the purchase you can save the material
on your computer indefinitely.
There are many types of timelines:
- wall timelines
- accordion folded timelines
- sketchbook spiral bound timelines
- chronological card file
- 3-ring binder timelines (horizontal or vertical)
The wall timeline gives the visual learner the full picture of history. Your child is able to see time periods where there were lulls with not much happening. On the flip side your child will see periods in history where so much is going on that all of the figures placed are one on top of the other. The accordion folded timeline is a small version of the wall timeline. You and your child will attach card stock together in an accordion style fold. You could make one huge accordion timeline or break the timeline down into periods of time such as, "Napoleon to Now" and "America's History." If you use a sketchbook to make a timeline you most likely are only covering a shorter time in history. Sketchbooks are great in that the paper is usually very thick and acid free so long lasting. A card file system allows your student to break down the figures by years. Your child can glue or tape the figure and text on one side of the card. As your child continues their history studies and learns more about the figures they can pull out the figure from the card file and on the backside add information. The 3-ring binder timeline is what we chose to do.
For the younger age group you can print out full page figures and text descriptions.
This option is contained in one of the download folders. Your child could make
a figure book on the specific time period that they are learning.
This is a fun matching game that could be played with a wide range of ages.
You could do a matching game using composers, writers, females in history, technology,
wars/battles, Presidents...
The Printable "Essential Timeline Library" is a wonderful resource to add to any history curriculum. The download library can be used by K-12 so the whole family is able to benefit. Timelines can build with a child over the years. There are so many amazing suggestions for using the figures outside of the timeline. Full lists of figures can be found in each sub category. I would highly recommend the "Essential Timeline Library" to others. Be sure to read the other reviews by My Fellow Crew Members. The Crew Members reviewed many of Home School in the Woods materials: Hands-on History Activity-Paks, Hands-on History Lap-Paks. Time Travelers U.S. History Studies, Project Passport World History Studies, Maps Combo-Pak (U.S. and World Maps) and then the Printable "Essential Timeline Library."
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