Spending Time on World Book Timelines
I can’t resist another opportunity to share the resources that Lisa Read from Focused Ed shared with us a few weeks ago. World Book Timelines is a powerful tool that can help your students visualize historical events. With this tool, students can create and explore interactive timelines that feature a wide range of events, topics and periods, including art, music, politics, world history, science and more.
Here are a few ideas for using World Book Timelines:
- Assign a timeline project: Ask your students to create their own timelines on a particular topic. For example, they could create a timeline of important inventions or they could create a timeline of a events that occurred in a novel. Encourage them to include multimedia elements, such as images and videos to make their timelines more engaging.
- Use timelines to learn about historic events like the Prime Ministers of Canada.
- Create collaborative timelines: Divide your students into small groups and ask them to create collaborative timelines on a particular topic. This can be a great way to promote teamwork and encourage your students to learn from one another.
How to get to World Book Timelines:
1. Go to Learn71.ca and click on Library Commons and then Research Databases or just click on Research Databases (the third button down on the right).
2. Click on Encyclopedias and find World Book Timelines:
3. You shouldn’t have to log in when you are at school but you can also use them at home. Log in using your school password (these can be found by logging in to the Destiny library search and then clicking on Passwords)..