Humanities: Time Lines

A Time Line is a chart that shows events and when they happened.

For example, go to this web page and make a time line:

http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/timeline/

Choose some events from your own life, like your birth, when you started school, etc, and generate a timeline for your life.

This is a really interesting website full of timelines:
http://www.timelineindex.com/content/home.php

This list of timelines helps us with all of humanities:
http://www.timelineindex.com/content/select/612/44,1573,612

Check out this cool time line:
http://americanhistory.si.edu/timeline/index.cfm

Let's start a timeline to keep track of when we're talking about. Make a long line and put yourself at the end. Then put Ancient Egypt at the beginning, and fill in important world events between (birth of Christ, when Nephi lived, when George Washington lived, etc).

For more in-depth information about time lines, their benefits and limitations, and how computers are changing the face of humanities, read here: http://hyperstudio.mit.edu/ 
You can also look here: http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/docs/ for even more complex information (suitable esp for high school students who are interested in programming)