We love adding information to our School Nest Timeline books at the end of our history unit studies. Over the last few weeks I’ve seen a few discussions come up on different homeschool groups about the books, and I thought I’d share how we set up our Pre-History section.
School Nest doesn’t add dates to the pre-history section, and so I thought for a long time about how I wanted to set that up, divide out the dates and all. My scales aren’t consistent throughout. I adjusted as I saw fit to get everything in.
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Not gonna lie…I also got myself a book as well as getting ones for the kids. Haven’t done it with the kids yet, but I labeled the various Eons and such in my book. You can see my labels too.
Here’s what I did:
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I labeled the Pre-History cover page as 13.8 billion years ago (BYA).
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On the first page, I labeled the markers as follows (source):
13.8 BYA – 1 second: Inflation, elementary particles exist.
13.8 BYA – 3 minutes: Nucleosynthesis begins.
13.8 BYA – 300,000 years: First stars and galaxies form.
13 BYA
12 BYA
10 BYA
8 BYA
6 BYA
4 BYA
2 BYA
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On the next pages I labeled the markers as follows:
1 BYA
800 MYA(million years ago)
600 MYA
400 MYA
200 MYA
100 MYA
90 MYA
80 MYA
70 MYA
60 MYA
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The next page is labeled as follows (All dates are MYA):
50, 40, 30, 20, 10, 9.5, 9, 8.5, 8, 7.5
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Then next page (All dates are MYA):
7, 6.5, 6, 5.5, 5, 4.5, 4, 3.5, 3, 2.5
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Then the next page (all MYA):
2, 1.9, 1.8, 1.7, 1.6, 1.5, 1.4, 1.3, 1.2, 1.1
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Next:
1,000,000 to 100,000 in increments of 100,000
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Next page (Thousands of Years Ago):
90, 80, 70, 60, 50, 40, 39, 38, 37, 36
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Next Page:
35,000 – 26,000 in increments of 1,000
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Next Page:
25,000-16,000 in increments of 1,000
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Final Page:
15,000-6,000 in increments of 1,000
There you go! After that you’re up to Ancient Times.
You can pick up your School Nest Timeline Notebook on Amazon.