Question posted by: Belinda on August 24, 2003 My son is going to be making a timeline Book of the Centuries but some of the timeline figure sets are a little on the expensive side. Besides that he doesn't like to color and most of them require coloring to look okay. Any suggestions?
Any ideas? :-) Answer:
Whether making a timeline notebook or a timeline on the wall, this book contains
lots of great pictures to cut out. It's at Barnes and Noble, brick and mortar,
for about $10. Title: World History Encyclopdia. Hardcover. Cover: white,
King Tut's head is in the mid-lower center of the cover, a border around the cover
has small pics of pottery, mummy, astronaut, Mayan, astrolabe, Polynesians on a
boat, Alexander the Great. If you don't see it on one of the bargain tables, ask
at the help desk for ISBN: 1405417021. I did find it
used online at Amazon for about the same price (inc. s&h)
with a different cover.
Two books can be bought. Label one book as the RIGHT book and cut pictures from the right hand pages only. The other book is labeled LEFT. That way you get at least one of every picture in the book. If you want, buy another book for reading. It's a fairly good overview of world history for about grades 4-7. But the pictures are good for students of any grade level that are making a timeline or timeline notebook. Reply: I bought some very old TimeLife science books in a thrift store for just that purpose. The covers were shot, the print was microscopic, the information was outdate among other things. Do you think I can stand to cut them up? NOOOOOOOOOOO. My friend buys old National Geographics to cut up...I can't do that either. What is my problem? I can't refinish antiques either. It would spoil them. Can you talk me into cutting up these useless books? ;-) We will never read them and who would want them in the condition they are in? (I'm talking myself into it.) I still don't think I could cut up a new book no matter how bad the book is. What kinds of books do you look for to cut up? For those who can't bear to cut up books out there, you can find great images on the internet doing an images search. That is what I am using this year. article continues below Online timelines:
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It is SO difficult to cut up books. I really have to talk myself into it with a pep talk. "The book is a tool. You have other books with this information in it. You CAN cut this book up. It will serve your kids *better* if you let them cut it up. Otherwise, it will just sit on the shelf." But at $10 each, those B&N books are a steal, imo. Perfect for timelines, especially if the student is reading an *intact* copy for history and they have their own timeline book or wall time line. Or even make a collage or short timeline on a piece of posterboard. Don't forget to take some proof of homeschooling so that you can the 20% Educator's Discount at Barnes & Noble. The book is actually published by B&N so you can only buy it from them. Yes, searching online for images on is a good idea. But when *I* do that sometimes I spend so much time looking for just the right pic that it's better for me to just stick to the books. Plus, the kids take forever and get distracted too easily. I go to thrift shops about once every 3 weeks and scout out history books and art books. I cut up the art books, too. Cut out the name, artist, etc. and the title of the work and put it in a c-line page protector on the fridge. Then I mention it every now and then to the kids. If I'd been smart, then I would have taken the page protector out and put it in a thick 3-ring binder every 2 weeks. Then we would have a really neat book for the coffee table(?) that we could review whenever we felt like it (if it were handy). But I just kept putting a new picture in the same page protector in front of the old picture until it was full and then I took them out and put them back in the book. Yeah, the 3-ring binder is a much better way to do it. Books that can be used for timeline figures:
Timeline Figures You Can Buy (need to be colored)
Miscellaneous Timeline Resources
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