Resources and ideas about children's understanding of Time

Web Links to history sites which address time and chronology

http://www.hyperhistory.com

HyperHistory Online

  Vast site, with 7,000 years of world history, with graphics, maps, timelines and biographies, explanations of changes in dating systems. Good for drawing attention to non-European and non-American civilisations, and making the point that some things did happen in the Dark Ages. Gives overviews of 500 year slabs of history, with thumbnail biographies and chronologies of scientists, artists, musicians, writers, politicians and (separately) women. Interesting polls on "Man of the century", "The 30 most influential people in the last 100 years", and the "Top 14 in World History."

http://wwwvms.utexas.edu/~jdana/irehist.html

Irish History on the Web-

 Vast site on Irish history including Timelines section and guidelines through Irish History 1500-1900, including essays and summaries. For GSCE, ‘A’ level students.

http://worldwar1.com

Trenches on the Web

  Vast site but has a search index which in turn leads to a timeline index, providing many timelines on events leading up to the war (either from 1871, or focusing on the July crisis), the development of the Alliance systems, and of the major campaigns in the war.

http://www.valley.net/~transnat/

Russia on the Web

Big site on Russian history including detailed timelines on various periods of Russian history, including Soviet period, with illustrations and links to further details.

http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/history/histov.html

The Victorian Web:

Vast site which includes a timeline of political and economic history of Gt. Britain from the Civil War to the Twentieth Century, with biographies of monarchs and key events.

http://heritage.greenwich2000.com

Greenwich

Breaks down to a timeline of each century from the C11th to the present day, divided into VIPs, architects, astronomers, monarchs, sailors and writers.

http://www.historyplace.com

The History Place

U.S bias, as with many of the very big sites, but good depth in terms of timelines on the U.S. Civil War, the Vietnam War, Hitler, and World War II, with links to photos, texts and documents.Also, detail on 7 examples of C20th genocides, including one on the Holocaust.

http://innercity.org/holt/slavechron.html

History of Slavery

With links to a detailed timeline of African History, with embedded links, which would be helpful to pupils doing project work in these areas.

http://district96.k12.il.us/VirtualRen.html

Chronology: a virtual history of the Renaissance

Very colourful and well designed coverage of the Renaissance, which would be helpful in enabling pupils to get a grasp of what the Renaissance was, and where and when it took place, focusing on various locations, such as the Globe Theatre, and with virtual tours of key sites, and "interviews" with protagonists.

The site also helps to make the point that there is more than one strand to chronology, and different areas of history can be tracked- Art and Science, Politics and War, Discovery and Trade, and Religion and Society.

http://anfield-merseyworld.com/pics/cartoons/eric.jpg

Anfield Merseyworld site

A nice example of an anachronism with an imitation frame of the Bayeux Tapestry showing Eric Cantona in action at the Battle of Hastings.

http://www.en.eun.org/vs/history/history.html

European School Net

Interesting site generally, to allow teachers across Europe to share thoughts, ideas etc.

Subject specific areas within the site, including chronologies of inventions, the Industrial Revolution, the Russian Revolution and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

http://www.mediahistory.com/time/century.html

The Media History Project

Gateway to a range of basic text chronologies and an illustrated world view of the past, including a chronology of technology, the media, and a keywords and connections function.

http://www.spartacus..co.uk

Spartacus Schoolnet

Another big commercial site, but this time with an emphasis on British history. A wide range of chronologies can be tracked, the British Monarchy, 1750-1930, Prime Ministers, 1750-1950, The Emancipation of Women 1780-1920, Education, 1700-1950, Child Labour, 1750-1900 and M.P.s 1750-1950.

http://www.education.bl.uk/new/index.html

British Library, Living Words, Making of the United Kingdom web site

To support the British Library’s CD-rom on this period.The web activities include a helpful and concise outline summary of some important aspects of the period, written by Professor Barry Coward, which would serve as an overview of how some strands of policy developed over the period as a whole, for instance, with regard to religious change during the period of the Tudors and Stuarts.

http://ve.ifs.org.uk

The Virtual Economy

Site developed with funds from the Nuffield Foundation; in addition to providing a model of the British Economy, where pupils can experiment with raising or lowering interest rates, taxation etc, the site provides a detailed history of economic thought, with biographies of major economic thinkers and economic terms. A very "deep" site for teachers attempting to address the cross-curricular theme of "economic and industrial awareness."

http://brittania.com/history 

Brittania

Basic text chronologies of British History, with narratives of events and summary biographies of monarchs.

http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDdavies/brian/amser/chrono.html

A complete history of money.

Specialist site, more appropriate for teacher research or project work by older pupils.

http://physics.nist.gov/time

A Walk through Time

Illustrated and detailed information and chronology on the evolution of time measurement. Good section on the evolution of calendars, which might be helpful in extending pupils’ grasp of "deep" time.

http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/hstm/data/333.htm

Virtual Library for the history of science, technology and medicine

Vast site, no longer maintained and updated because of labour time involved, but still a massive mine of information. Good depth on issues such as the development of the A-bomb, the Aeroplane and Contraception.

http://www.ask.co.uk

Ask Jeeves

Ask for a timeline of British history by nation, period or event and this search engine will give timelines or narratives for a wide range of periods and events in British history. It brings up, for instance, 10 timelines about 1066, and timelines or narratives on the Plague, 1539-1640, the murder of Becket, the Spanish Armada, the wives of Henry VIII, The Tudors, and so on.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/rocks/rocky.shtml

BBC’s Essential Guide to Rocks

Helpful animation to make the point that the World did not start with the Roman invasion of Britain; vividly makes the point about "deep time"- humans didn’t come along for a long time after the start of the world.

http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/events/peace/chpp.htm

A history of the Northern Ireland Conflict 1968 onwards

Including a skeleton chronology of events in Irish History from 1170 A.D. It focuses mainly on the Peace Process from 1988 onwards.

The modern section has considerable depth, and deals with ideas and issues, as well as events.

http://www.bonus.com/contour/timecruise/http@@/library.thinkquest.org/2834/ 

The amazing magnificent colossal cruise through time and history

Something of a disappointment after the hopes engendered by the title. Makes the point that fancy graphics doesn’t make up for ropey content. James Schick makes the point that sometimes flawed "edutainment" projects offer opportunities for history teachers to make important points to pupils, and also, something which pupils can attempt to better. Pretty graphics on about 10 different periods, a text base that pupils should be able to improve on.

http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/history/chronology/

Timeline of Muslem History

Basic text chronology, without illustrations or embedded links to further content

http://member.aol.com/TeacherNet/FaFoTime.html#Time

History of Fashion, food and time

Gateway site to a vast range of timelines and resources on these topics, some more helpful than others. Ten thousand year calendar, counter-culture time line, and features on time zones, What time is it? Also, topic time lines on the World wars, the Vietnam War, the Holocaust and explanation of leap years, calendars etc.

http://www.camelotintl.com/world/ 

History of the World- Europe

A synopsis, presented by century, running from 14 A.D. to 1992 A.D.

http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000ws/4000ws.html

4,000 years of women in Science.

Netscape frame pocket biographies of women who have been influential in Science.

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/home.taf

History Matters

Interesting and slightly unusual U.S. site which gives some ideas on the possibilities of how the web might help UK history teachers. Some examples of web based assignments, and features on "Secrets of great history teachers".

http://historyofindia.com

History of India Site

Well illustrated, with timelines and shockwave animation graphics.

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