Timeline Directions

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Use your Explorer Research Worksheet to create a timeline with at least five entries. You may follow the direction below for to create a time line using tineliner, or you can hand write the timeline.

1. Open the program Timeliner 5.0.
2. Choose Timeliner 5.0.
3. Choose standard timeline.
4. Boxes will come up with When and What.
5. Use your Explorer Research Worksheet to fill in the dates and major events of your explorer’s life in the When and What boxes. For example: 1492 may by entered in the When box and brief information about Christopher Columbus ‘s first voyage in the What box.
6. To put the next event into the timeline, click on New Event and enter information. Repeat for at least 5 events.
7. If there is an error., choose the entry and select the edit button from the side of the screen.
8. On the side of the screen you can choose the Expand or Compress buttons to change the intervals of the dates on the timeline.
9. You may see the timeline in several different views by choosing the view pictures at the top of the timeline.
10. You may add images to your timeline through the program f you choose and have time.
11. You can print out the timeline, you may need to tape several sheets of paper together.