Florida SS.K.A.1.1
The Standard
Develop an understanding of how to use and create a timeline.
Florida Next Generation Sunshine State Standards for Social Studies · American History
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students put events in the order they happened. They place pictures or labels on a line and use words such as first, next, and last.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can arrange three or four familiar events from earliest to latest. The student can explain the order and make a simple timeline with correctly placed pictures.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may read the line from right to left or think the largest picture happened first. They may also confuse the order of events that occur close together.
How to Assess It
- Give students four picture cards showing a morning routine. Ask them to arrange the cards in order, attach them to a line, and explain the sequence.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs picture cards of planting a seed, sprouting, growing leaves, and flowering, then have them build and label a floor timeline.
Ask students to draw three events from their school day and write or dictate what happened first, next, and last.
Play Timeline Mix-Up by scrambling three familiar story cards and having teams race to place them in order and explain their choices.
Use class photos from the first month of school to build a timeline showing changes in classroom routines and student work.
Keep exploring
Related Standards
- SS.6.W.1.1
Use timelines to identify chronological order of historical events.
- SS.1.A.3.2
Create a timeline based on the student's life or school events, using primary sources.
- SS.1.A.1.1
Develop an understanding of a primary source.
- SS.5.A.1.2
Utilize timelines to identify and discuss American History time periods.
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