Vocabulary
Something important that happened in the past.
What is a historical event?
These two buildings stood in New York before the attacks.
What are the Twin Towers?
Apollo 11 traveled from Earth to this place.
What is the Moon?
Orville and Wilbur were these famous inventors.
Who are the Wright Brothers?
A timeline puts events in this kind of order.
What is chronological order?
This means putting events in the order they happened.
What is chronological order?
This event came last: the towers stood, planes flew into the buildings, or a memorial was built.
What is a memorial was built?
This happened after Apollo 11 left Earth.
What is they traveled to the Moon?
Before flying a powered airplane, the Wright Brothers tested these.
What are gliders?
The event on the far left of a timeline usually happened at this time.
What is first?
A historical event must be both this and in the past.
What is important?
New York
Where did the event happen?
Name astronaut that traveled to the moon?
Who are Buzz, Neil Armstrong, and/or Michael Collins?
In 1903, the Wright Brothers completed this important event.
What was the first successful powered flight?
These help show when events happened on a timeline.
What are dates?
This word tells that one event happened earlier than another event.
What is before?
September 11 is a historical event because it meets these two requirements.
What is it was important and happened in the past?
This had to happen before the astronauts could walk on the Moon.
What was traveling to the Moon?
This was an interesting detail about the Wright Brothers, but it was not one of the most important events in the story of powered flight.
What was opening a bicycle shop?
If two events happened in 2001 and 2005, this event should appear first on the timeline.
What is the event from 2001?
This word tells that one event happened later than another event.
What is after?
It is a 5 sided figure.
What is a pentagon?
Put these in chronological order: returned to Earth / walked on the Moon / traveled to the Moon.
What is: traveled to the Moon → walked on the Moon → returned to Earth?
Put these in chronological order: first powered flight / tested gliders / airplanes changed transportation.
What is tested gliders → first powered flight → airplanes changed transportation?
These are the events you choose for a timeline because they help tell the main story.
What are important events?