A Clothing History Timeline

During this unit, we put up a big timeline on the wall and wrote all kinds of things on it from other units we've had. Then we put up small pictures to show clothing from each period. That was really fun. Again, it helped us so much to visualize how the history of it all fit together! I love walking by this timeline on my way up the stairs every day and seeing the things that people have added to it. :)

Civil War map and timeline

Here's what our bulletin board held during the Civil War Unit. I highly recommend this map---we referred to it, put pins in it, looked up casualties on it, and lots of other things. It was a great visual reference. The sheer number of battles in the Civil War is just amazing; you learn about the big ones and you know that isn't all of them, but I don't think I ever realized just how many there were. We also had a timeline which we added to during the unit. It was really simple: just dates of things we thought were important, along with pictures to help us remember which battle was which.