Timeline Creator: World History Timeline for Kids allows your students to map history on their very own timeline book–the perfect resource!
A world history timeline for kids becomes helpful around 4th grade. Students in 7th to 9th grade are developmentally at their prime for making connections, and a timeline for them is vital to their understanding of the way events impact the course of history. Creating a timeline can also be very helpful for visual students who learn best by seeing
When my children were old enough to understand that historical and biblical events occurred in time and space, I helped them each become a timeline creator with this printable 132-page My Timeline Notebooking Journal. We printed it on cardstock, bound it, and they’ve been writing dates in it ever since!
Our world history timeline has become one of our favorite tools in studying history. Using the My Timeline Notebooking Journal has really helped my kids grasp how ideas inform events, and how events in one place can affect events (and leaders) in another.
Timeline Creator
World History Timeline for Kids
The timeline expands as time progresses since there’s just more to record as the centuries progress. The timeline begins in 4000 BC to give you room to record from Creation forward.
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The Timeline Page Structure
- From 4000 BC to 0 AD, pages cover a century.
Each timeline is broken into 5 year increments. - From 0 AD to 1000 AD, pages cover 50 years.
Each timeline is broken into 2.5 year increments. - From 1000 AD to 2050 AD (for your littlest littles to use later), pages cover 25 years.
Each timeline is broken into 1 year increments.
Contents of the Timeline Creator World History Timeline for Kids
There’s more! The timeline isn’t just a tool for recording events–it’s beautiful and interesting as well. This world history timeline for kids includes:
- 29 full-color paintings from artists such as Rembrandt, Monet, and Renoir, and from ancient artists. The art is carefully chosen to avoid depictions of: extreme immodesty, angels, demons, mythical gods, Christophanies, or Theophanies (for those who feel those violate the second commandment).
- A quote at the top of each timeline page, including:
- ESV Bible quotations about time, seasons, and plans.
- Quotes from historic Christians such as Charles Spurgeon, Samuel Rutherford, and Hannah More.
How to Notebook (and What is Notebooking?)
Print and Bind Your World History Timeline for Kids
You can then take the journals to your nearest office store and have them spiral bound with a plastic cover and back. I suggest printing the pages back to back (duplex on the short side). Alternately, you can also 3-hole punch the pages and store them in a binder.
My boys use a ruler to make their lines and then write their events and dates in different colored pens. My boys love the way these write, and the different colors let the color-code to their hearts’ delight: Pilot G2 Retractable Premium Gel Ink Roller Ball Pens.
Students can use a ruler to make their lines and then write their events and dates in different colored pens.
Books Make Great Gifts!
Teach Your Kids the Bible with Bible Road Trip™
Bible Road Trip™ is a three-year Bible survey curriculum. Take your family through the Bible five times from preschool to high school.
To help you get the most out of your studies, Bible Road Trip™ has an array of coordinating weekly activities:
- Researching the section of the Bible you’re studying
- Reading and discussing the Bible
- Memorizing Scripture
- Notebooking about your studies
- Praying for the nations
- Suggestions for further study
- Crafting about what you’ve learned
- For your older students: A project to share what they’ve learned
- Bible Road Trip™ also has some great tools you can use along with it, such as:
- Notebooking Journals for grades 1-9. Want a structured notebooking journal for high school? Don’t hesitate to use the Dialectic journal (grades 7-9).
- Bible Memory Card Sets for all five levels of study, preschool to high school. These are available in both ESV and KJV.
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- The Bible Road Trip™ Parent / Teacher Guide.
- The first three weeks of the curriculum for all five learning levels. Week Three is where we really dive into the Bible and begin to our systematic study. Week Three will give you a good feel for the rest of the curriculum.
- The first three weeks of the Bible Memory Card sets for all five levels, in ESV and KJV.
- The first three weeks of each of the three leveled Notebooking Journals.
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Bible Road Trip™ Curriculum
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Tara H says
This is awesome! Thanks! I’ve seen your name before on other blogs, maybe (?) but somehow haven’t been to this site before. I’m a new subscriber! 🙂
Danika says
Wonderful! I’m glad to have you join us, Tara!
Cosette says
WOW!!! Thank you so much! I have been needing to start a timeline/book of centuries (for CMers) with my daughter, and just couldn’t decide how to do it… this is perfect! I’m also looking into starting your awesome Bible Road Trip next school year. Thank you for all your hard work and generosity, it is greatly appreciated!
Kelly says
This is amazing! Thank you for sharing 🙂
heatherlynne12 says
Thank you so much.I have twelve children,two now graduated, and my third one still has three years left of homeschooling. I am so very thankful for all of your hard work and so excited about BIBLE ROAD TRIP.The timing is of the LORD. I just can’t thank you enough. GOD is so good.Your work is so beautiful and well organized It is truly a blessing for my family.Thank you!
Heather
Janice says
Thank you ever so much for this wonderful website 🙂 It’s just what I needed for the new homeschooling year!!! Looking forward to the Bible Road Trip and this timeline. Blessings to your family and so glad I became a member.
Jimmie says
Fantastic, Danika! So generous of you.
Danika says
Thank you, Jimmie! That means so much to me. 🙂
janeen herlugson says
Thank you so much for sharing this awesome timeline journal!!
Danika says
Thanks, Janeen! It was my pleasure. 🙂
Danika
Amber says
I downloaded this several days ago, but just got around to really looking at it this morning. I had to come back to your site to tell you, this resource is well done and beautiful, too! I cannot wait to start using it.
Danika says
Thank you, Amber!
mayberrymom says
Hi, thank you so much for this generous download! It looks wonderful! I’m new here, and also new to the timeline method. My girls are 12 and 15- can you direct me in the best way for them to use this timeline? Thank you!