Directions

• Dicsuss what students know about Abraham Lincoln.

• Organize responses into a word web on the chalk board.

• Invite students to find out more about this famous American. Encourage them to research other sites as well.
• Challenge students to record dates for events they find, including dates for relevant information in the word web.
• Have small groups copy the word web from the board onto butcher paper. Ask them to add information they've found from the Web.
• Have students discuss significant events from their webs.
• Begin to write events on the chalkboard, and assign them dates. You may wish to prompt this activity by asking "Name a significant event that happened in 1865." (Lincoln's assassintation.)
• Once you have enough information on the chalkboard to begin a timeline (3 or 4 entries) invite small groups to create their own timelines. Require that timelines include ten events from at least five distinct years.
• Once groups have completed the timelines, have them share their work. Hold a discussion about what students have found.

Assignment

Have students choose an event from their timeline for further research. Challenge them to create another timeline based on that event.

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