Lesson+1

= CREATING TIMELINES = =The First Fleet are having trouble re-tracing their steps! They need your help!=

What are timelines? Have a read of these links which will tell you what are involved in timelines:
Page 1 http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/howtomakeatimeline1.htm Page 2 http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/howtomakeatimeline2.htm



Making a timeline of our own

 * 1) This timeline is a timeline of **YOUR LIFE** up until now. Included in this timeline can be significant events that happened to you or something __special__ that you remember.
 * 2) Open your history books to the next clean page. Draw a line vertically down the page.( oh yes, I meant vertically LOL) (HAHA I didn't even think you would notice I change that :P)
 * 3) Think about the earliest event in your life, perhaps when you were born.
 * 4) The earliest event goes at the top of your line. Write the year on the left, and the event on the __right__ e.g. 2004, I was born



Creating a timeline of the First Fleet
In this activity, we are creating timelines using the events below. **All the events are out of order**, so we need you to put them in order.
 * Tip:** Put the events in order on a spare piece of paper before writing them on a new timeline. Start by finding the earliest event in the list.

Mapping out the route of the First Fleet
Using the print out of this map as provided on your desks, which is the same as represented here, map out the route of the First Fleet with either a line or dotted line starting from **Portsmouth, England**, and finishing at **Botany Bay** in **Sydney, Australia**. Use your timeline to map these events as they occurred along the route.