Timeline, Microsoft Excel

You don't have TimeLiner?  Let your students construct a timeline in Excel.  Open Excel.  Click in Cell A1 and drag across to Cell K1 to highlight the row.  Go to Format and click on Cells.  Click on the Alignment tab and select Merge Cells.  Type in a title for your timeline.  Begin your timeline on row 5.  In Cell A5 type in the time you get up in the morning and continue across the row putting in the times you go to school, eat lunch, do homework, eat dinner, go to bed, etc.  Drop down to row 10.  Select Cells A10 through K10.  Go to Format and click on Cells.  Click on the Alignment tab and select Wrap Text.  Now, beginning in Cell A10 key in your activities for the day.  Once you have completed doing this, select Cells A10 through K10,  Go to Format and click on Cells.  Click on the Alignment tab and set the text Orientation to 90 degrees.   You may want to make your timeline longer than columns A through K  if you have more activities during the day.
 

GLEs - Math

Grade 4
Data Analysis, Probability, and Discrete Math
36. (D-2-E) (D-1-E)

Grade 5
Data Analysis, Probability, and Discrete Math
30. (D-1-M)

GLEs - Social Studies

Grade 3
History
Historical Thinking Skills
46. (H-1A-E1)

Grade 4
History
Historical Thinking Skills
50. (H-1A-E1)
 

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