Adaptable Classroom Wall Timeline

A Clothesline Timeline

Subjects: Arts & Humanities, Educational Technology, Holidays, Language Arts, Mathematics, Measurement, Social Studies, U.S. History, Visual Arts ... so any!

Grades: All

Brief Description

Students create a clothesline timeline whatever events, eras or images are relevant. 

Materials Needed

• clothesline (distinctive color yarn and push pins) however long as you need, make sure to space out the pushpins fairly regularly to support the clothesline and the material to be placed on it.
• clothespins
• index cards or paper cut to index-card size, glue or hang these from the clothespins to the timeline with years. 
• additional color coded yarn can be used to organize information along the time line and separate specific eras.