The ultimate guide to history timeline notebooks, with printable Book of Centuries, bonus timeline wall chart and lots of great tips for teaching history!
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A Book of Centuries is a history timeline in a book or notebook. It is a terrific tool for making history come alive for your students, as it helps them to see the connections between the various people and events that they study. It will pull together ALL of your history lessons and can be used with ANY curriculum!
Want to be inspired? Want your children to love learning about history? My ebook set Book of Centuries will guide you through creating and using a history timeline notebook, but it will also do SO MUCH MORE! In fact, it contains lots of information that will help you with teaching history in any format! It includes a ready to print Book of Centuries, a simple printable wall timeline, information on using History Notebooks, and pages of inspiration where I share my ideas and experiences of making history come alive in our homeschool! This is a simple guide with lots of good stuff to inspire you, but at only 46 pages it won't take you forever to read; you'll be able to understand the concepts and jump right in! Some of the content is from a Christian perspective, but whatever your own beliefs, you will find lots here to help and inspire you. The Book of Centuries and/or Wall Timeline can be used with ANY curriculum or approach to teaching history! |
In the study of History, memorizing a lot of dates is not important; unless they have significant meaning to the student, they will soon be forgotten. The important thing about history is the PEOPLE - who they are, what they did, what they learned, how God worked in their lives, how their choices had consequences - both good and bad. Dates are just "hooks", useful to hang things on, and to help connect the various people and facts of history, into a cohesive picture.
This is where timelines come in - by using them to record the people and events they have studied, your student will begin to make connections - to see what was happening in one part of the world while such and such was happening in another, to understand how different world events have a flow-on effect to other parts of the world, to see how things connect together, and where they stand in relation to the flow of time between past and present. A timeline pulls together all the bits of information and history that otherwise can seem unconnected and gives the bigger picture. And it's these connections that can really excite one about history, and also help you to remember all you have learned! A Book of Centuries is one kind of timeline record - a wall timeline is another. I'll teach you about both.
This is where timelines come in - by using them to record the people and events they have studied, your student will begin to make connections - to see what was happening in one part of the world while such and such was happening in another, to understand how different world events have a flow-on effect to other parts of the world, to see how things connect together, and where they stand in relation to the flow of time between past and present. A timeline pulls together all the bits of information and history that otherwise can seem unconnected and gives the bigger picture. And it's these connections that can really excite one about history, and also help you to remember all you have learned! A Book of Centuries is one kind of timeline record - a wall timeline is another. I'll teach you about both.
My guide includes information about:
Also included are:
- What a Book of Centuries is and how to create and use one
- The time periods of history
- How the date of Creation was calculated
- What to do when dates don't agree
- How to use wall timelines
- How to use history notebooks
- What to do with conflicting information
- How to get excited about history (and inspire your children)
- Why we should teach history
- What Charlotte Mason meant by "living books" and their role in learning about history
- How my family and I got excited about history (with info on the Tudors and also Cleopatra and Caesar)
- Info about some suggested resources
Also included are:
- A ready-to-print Book of Centuries (with additional pages you can use to personalise it)
- A ready-to-print simple wall timeline
- Step-by-step instructions
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