CONTENT STATEMENT
- The order of significant events in Ohio and the United States can be shown on a timeline.
CONTENT ELABORATION
Chronological thinking helps students develop a clear sense of historical time to recognize the temporal sequence of events in history. Grade-three students practiced chronological order by placing local events on a timeline. In grade four, students construct timelines with appropriate titles, evenly spaced intervals for years, decades and centuries, and events in chronological order.
As students place events on timelines, they begin to understand cause-and-effect relationships among events and gain early experience with the conventions of BC/BCE and AD/CE.
Students begin using these conventions in grade five. In grade six, students will examine relationships between events on multiple-tier timelines.
EXPECTATIONS FOR LEARNING
Construct a timeline of significant events in Ohio and the United States to demonstrate an understanding of units of time and chronological order.