Organise ideas· Sequence
Timeline
A timeline asks pupils to put events in the order they happened; Show answers places them with their dates.
The Great Plague
Charles II crowned
The Great Fire of London
The Gunpowder PlotThe real slide Chalk makes, in the Classroom look. Every word is written for your lesson when you use it.
How to run it
- Pupils order the events from the bank.
- Show the answers with dates.
- Ask which two events were closest, and why that matters.
Why it works
Placing events in order builds the sense of chronology that history depends on.
In other subjects
Science: the history of the atomEnglish: the plot of a novel
Use in Slides
Chalk plans a deck with this task in it, written for your lesson.