Home School in the Woods is known for their fun and engaging hands on History products. We were first introduced to their wonderful products last year when we used the U.S. Elections Lap-Pak. We have also studied Ancient Greek earlier this year with one of their Project Passports . We were excited when the opportunity came up to review the Timeline Trio, another hands on product.
The ‘Record of Time’ timeline notebook is a 12″ x 9″ horizontal binder. Included in the binder is 122 ivory cardstock pages dated from 5000 BC to 2025 AD. The way the pages are designed allow complete customization!
The years are marked in the middle of the page and there are marks signifying the intervals between. The amount of years they cover change throughout history. For instance in the photo above, the lines represent 2 year intervals. Further back in history they represent 10 years and the closer that you get to current time some of the intervals get as short as 6 months.
The 2 disc CD includes:
-PDF pages of all the figures in the HISTORY Through the Ages Timeline sets
-PDF pages available in both wall and notebooks size
-PDF pages of New Bonus Figures
-A gallery of more than 1,260 timeline images
– 30+ categories set up in a website format for easy browsing
The Suggested Placement Guide is a 72 page paperback book that aids with the placement of the Timeline Figures. While students are free to design the timeline as they like, the guide is available if needed.
As seen in the picture above, every page covers two time line pages in the binder. All entries are assigned a letter for easy identification on the Suggested Placement Guide. There is an index in the back of the book to quickly find the page.
Our Thoughts
For this review, I picked up two additional “Record of Time” timeline notebooks at our local homeschool convention so Sweet Pea, Peanut, and Lil’ Bit could each have their own timeline book. The girls have thoroughly enjoyed this project. We decided to leave the figures uncolored but if your student wanted to they can color them!
As for the figures that we have placed so far in the time line, we selected ones that we are currently learning about in our studies such as presidents, Paul Revere, and Amelia Earhart.
I love the flexibility of the timeline! The figures can be placed in multiple locations and Home School in the Woods leaves it up to the student where it goes. My girls decided they wanted to place the historical figures on the year that the people were born. The best thing is that there is no right or wrong way to creating the time line.
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