Specific Related Skills

A. Use existing means for understanding and using time.

1. Use various types of clocks to tell time.

2. Use the names of days and months in order.

3. Use various types of calendars to find dates and calculate lengths of time between points in time.

4. Associate seasons with various times and locations on earth.

5. Relate the rotation of earth to day and night.

6. Relate the time zones to the rotation of earth.

7. Describe the relationship between earth's movement in the universe to a calendar year.

8. Use some important dates and events as points of orientation in time.

9. Use landmark events and their symbols. (B.C., B.C.E. and A.D.)

10. Use definite and indefinite time words correctly.

11. Use various types of diagrams to describe prehistoric time.

12. Place dates in correct centuries.

B. Use chronology and an understanding of duration to communicate ideas.

1. Organize personal schedules.

2. Use sequence and order to plan and accomplish tasks.

3. Read, use, and make sequence lines.

4. Calculate differences in time through the use of mathematics.

5. Associate labels for historical time periods with their duration on time lines.

6. Read, use, and make time lines with various types of scales.

7. Examine events and note relationships to other events.

8. Associate events and actions with results or consequences.

9. Apply knowledge of actions and consequences of events in time to citizenship in a democracy.

Computer Software

Time traveler CD - Macintosh - ( A time line program on CD Rom)