Students discover that they have a history too — they were once babies and have grown and changed year by year — by putting the stages of their own life in order on a timeline.
Students will be able to…
You weren’t always able to read or run! How have you grown and changed since you were a baby?
Project this and have students put the stages of growing up in order — from baby all the way to first grader.
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Could you read and run when you were a baby?
Students investigate.
Explore more.
Think it through.
Students take action.
Aligned to the C3 Framework for Social Studies and Common Core literacy in social studies.
Create a chronological sequence of multiple events.
Compare life in the past to life today.
Generate questions about individuals and groups in the past.
Describe the connection between events, ideas, or pieces of information.
Preview the three formative checks. Tap “Sample answer” to see what mastery looks like — hide them before you print for students.
Have students bring photos from different ages and put them in order on a timeline, telling one thing about each. A printable timeline strip is in the Social Studies library.
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A print-and-go review sheet with a built-in answer key. Tap “Show answer key” to reveal answers, or print the clean version for students.