Sep. 4, 2007 - Science timeline

We began our school year today!  All in all it went pretty well.  One thing we accomplished was our science timeline.   Somewhere I had read about doing a timeline in a notebook and connecting the pages of cardstock.  Here’s what we did as my interpretation of what I read.  We took colored cardstock (standard 81/2X11) and 3 hole punched two pieces to be the cover and last page.  We then took 4 more pieces of cardstock and trimmed off 1 inch on the long side.      We wrote our title on our cover page and decorated it.  Then we drew a line across each of our pages, 5 ½ inch from the ends (exactly in half.)  We taped them side to side with good quality clear tape.  You could use packing tape but I didn’t want it too wide since we’ll be writing on the paper later.    Once that was done we chose to date our first page “creation – 0”, second page 0-1500, third page 1500-1800 and our last page (back cover) 1800-present.  I chose these based on where I felt most of our information would go.  There are not too many things we’ll be studying from creation to 0 but there are a lot of things from 1700-2000 so those years got more space.  Hope that makes sense.   The kids can leave it in the notebook to look at it or work on it or they can unclip the back page and pull it out full length.   We plan on glueing in some timeline figures as well as writing and drawing some of our own images and notes at various dates.   We’re using Christian Kids Explore Earth and Space this year.  I think making the timeline was the highlight of our first day!  How is your back to school going?   Gina

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Sep. 6, 2007 - about your science

Posted by tdawn79

Hey How is everything going? I was wondering if you would let me know how your kids like the science. Im looking at the considering Gods world So If you dont mind just keep me posted. We have hit a snag in school daughter broke her thumb on right hand. Edited by tdawn79 on Sep. 6, 2007 at 1:55 PM

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