My Personal Geologic Timeline Project



Earth Systems: Geologic Time Unit

My Personal Geologic Timeline Project

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THE PRE-WORK WILL REALLY MAKE THE REST OF THE PROCESS GO MUCH MORE SMOOTHLY AND EASILY!

Pre-Work: Brainstorm major events that have occurred in your life. Write these down on a sheet of paper. Then, on the worksheet entitled Your Personal Time Line, you will be writing events that occurred in your life in order in the third column, Sequential Time, but you will be writing them so that the most recent event is at the top of the list and the event that occurred first is at the bottom of the list. The top item should be something from today, or at least within the past few months.

Your completed list is now similar to what a geologist might refer to as a Sequential Time Line. You can use your own sequential time line to describe events in your life. For instance, I learned to ride my bike after I learned to walk but before I started second grade. Have the students describe events in their lives in a similar way.

Return to your time line worksheet. In the middle column entitled, Numerical Time, place a zero by today's date (or most recent event). Then think of the number of years ago each event happened. Write these numbers in the column in front of each event. If you can't remember exactly, try to guess and round off to the nearest whole year. These numbers are the numerical ages of the event and make up a numerical time line.

Now you can use both the sequential and the numerical information to describe events in your life. Using both of these, describe when you started kindergarten. An example might be: I started kindergarten four years ago, after I learned to walk but before I lost my first tooth.

Now you are going to divide the events into two time intervals. Draw a horizontal line above the last event that happened before you started kindergarten. Now every event above the line took place after you started kindergarten and every event below the line took place before you started kindergarten. In the first column entitled Time Interval, write the word Preschoolian below the line and the word Schoolian above the line. This worksheet now resembles a complete time line for the events in your life. They are in the proper sequence. They have been given a date in time. And they have been grouped into two major event groups. These will be your Eras. Your entire life up to now is your Eon. Continue to break down your time scale into Eras, Periods, and Epochs, dividing the time into similar groupings.

Product: Timeline can be constructed using Excel, PowerPoint, or Word, and electronically submitted to instructor by due date. Timeline can be constructed as a webpage. Timeline can be constructed using poster board and physically turned in by due date.

Requirements: Product MUST include: minimum of 2 eras, 6 periods, 12 epochs; min of 4 drawings/ pictures illustrating pivotal events within epoch. Project should be neat & show effort of time spent preparing information to be included on timeline.

References for visualizing electronic timelines:





(good webpage style)



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Rubric for Grading of Timeline Name: ___________

|CATEGORY |4 |3 |2 |1 |

|Dates |An accurate, complete date |An accurate, complete date|An accurate date has been |Dates are inaccurate and/or |

| |has been included for each |has been included for |included for almost every |missing for several events. |

| |event. |almost every event. |event. | |

|Readability |The overall appearance of the|The overall appearance of |The timeline is relatively |The timeline is difficult to|

| |timeline is pleasing and easy|the timeline is somewhat |readable. |read. |

| |to read. |pleasing and easy to read.| | |

|Graphics |All graphics are effective |All graphics are |Some graphics are effective |Several graphics are not |

| |and balanced with text use. |effective, but there |and their use is balanced |effective. |

| | |appear to be too few or |with text use. | |

| | |too many. | | |

|Attractiveness |The timeline is exceptionally|The timeline is attractive|The timeline is acceptably |The timeline is |

| |attractive in terms of |in terms of design, layout|attractive though it may be a|distractingly messy or very |

| |design, layout, and neatness.|and neatness. |bit messy. |poorly designed. It is not |

| | | | |attractive. |

|Preparation |The student had notes about |The student had notes |The student had notes about |The student had not prepared|

| |all the events and dates s/he|about almost all the |most (~75%) of the events and|adequate notes before |

| |wished to include on the |events and dates s/he |dates s/he wished to include |beginning to design the |

| |timeline before beginning to |wished to include on the |on the timeline before |timeline. |

| |design the timeline. |timeline before beginning |beginning to design the | |

| | |to design the timeline. |timeline. | |

|Time Use |Classroom time was used to |Classroom time was used to|Classroom time was used to |Student did not use |

| |work on the project. |work on the project the |work on the project the |classroom time to work on |

| |Conversations were not |majority of the time. |majority of the time, but |the project and/or was |

| |disruptive and focused on the|Conversations were not |conversations often were |highly disruptive. |

| |work. |disruptive and focused on |disruptive or did not focus | |

| | |the work. |on the work. | |

Total= ______/28

(___ x 2) = _____/56

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