Timeline worksheet · History, Civics & Social Studies
Inventions that changed daily life timeline: write the dates · Grade 3
Write the date of each of 5 events about inventions that changed daily life on a timeline using a date bank. Practices chronology and reading a scaled timeline.
- Grade 3 · ages 8 to 9
- Easy
- 10 to 15 minutes
- 1 page
- Free
The answer key is a separate page for grown-ups. Sign in to download it.
The events
Directions: Write the date of each event on its line. Use the dates in the box.
- Dates
- 1879 1991 1971 about 1440 1882
- oldest newest
- Johannes Gutenberg builds a printing press with movable metal type in Germany.
- Thomas Edison's team tests a light bulb that glows for many hours.
- Lewis Latimer patents a better way to make carbon filaments for light bulbs.
- The first email is sent between two computers on a network.
- The World Wide Web opens to the public, linking pages across the internet.
What your child practices
Your child practices chronology and reading a scaled timeline. The skill is “Change, continuity and causation”: describe how and why things changed over time and compare perspectives.
- Grades and ages
- Grade 3, ages 8 to 9
- Time
- About 10 to 15 minutes
- Subject
- History, Civics & Social Studies
- Level
- Easy for Grade 3
- Answer key
- Yes, for grown-ups who sign in
- Printing
- 1 page, US Letter or A4, low-ink option
- Updated
How to use it
Try the first question together so the format is clear. Then let your child work through the rest, showing their thinking on the page. It is one of the easier sheets for Grade 3, good as a warm-up or a first look at the skill.
An answer key comes with it as a separate page that grown-ups download after signing in.
Tip for grown-ups: Find the oldest and newest events first, then fill in the middle.
Done on paper? A grown-up can record it on the child's page in PlayOwl; downloading alone doesn't count as finished.
History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 3
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