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:
I labeled the Pre-History cover page as 13.8 billion years ago (BYA).
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
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
The next page is labeled as follows (All dates are MYA):
50, 40, 30, 20, 10, 9.5, 9, 8.5, 8, 7.5
Then next page (All dates are MYA):
7, 6.5, 6, 5.5, 5, 4.5, 4, 3.5, 3, 2.5
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
Next:
1,000,000 to 100,000 in increments of 100,000
Next page (Thousands of Years Ago):
90, 80, 70, 60, 50, 40, 39, 38, 37, 36
Next Page:
35,000 – 26,000 in increments of 1,000
Next Page:
25,000-16,000 in increments of 1,000
Final Page:
15,000-6,000 in increments of 1,000
There you go! After that you’re up to Ancient Times.
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