Maya's life is laid out on one timeline from 2018 to 2025 in this 3-page 2nd grade social studies sheet. Six events sit on the line: she is born, takes her first steps, gets a puppy, welcomes a baby brother, starts kindergarten and starts 2nd grade. Page 2 has six questions with answer boxes, and one needs subtraction (2023 minus 2018). The answer key shows the dates behind every answer.
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“Create a chronological sequence of multiple events.”
Questions 3 and 6 ask which of two events came first, and question 5 asks for the last event on the line.
A line marks each year from 2018 to 2025. Six labeled boxes with small pictures sit at 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2025.
Six questions in answer boxes: the year Maya was born, what happened in 2021, whether the puppy came before or after her brother, her age at kindergarten, the last event, and which came first, kindergarten or the puppy.
All six answers, each with the dates that prove it, such as 2023 minus 2018 for 5 years old.
Empty tick marks
Point out that 2020 and 2024 have a tick but no event. Ask what that means. Students often think every year needs a picture.
Question 4 mini lesson
Question 4 asks for an age, which needs 2023 minus 2018. Some students count ticks instead. Let both methods stand and compare the answers.
Before My Life Timeline
Use it as the model before students build a timeline of their own life. They have seen how events and years sit together.
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