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If you were going to color code time periods, how would you do it?
The Homeschool in the Woods divides World History into three color coded time periods and keeps American History separate. Would this be confusing to children because it's not really chronological?
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That is pretty cool how it is color coded. I just put the beginnings of our timeline up. I didn't have color coding plans.
I did amaze myself  with my great idea though. I went to the teacher supply store and bought bulletin board border, with the scallop edge, and put that up as our time line. Bright yellow on my pretty Laura Ashley apple wall, just in case anyone is interested. 
We are studying Ancients this year so I suppose we could color code in the future, but I hope it is so full of figures no one will notice the color.
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Mary Chris, What are you going to use for the figures?
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We used four colors for the 4 time periods that Susan Bauer list in her book, The Well Trained Mind.
Yellow-Ancients (5000BC-400AD)
Purple-Medieval to Early Renaissance(400AD-1600AD)
Green-Late Renaissance to Early Modern (1600AD-1850AD)
Orange-Modern (1850 AD to present)
The time runs horizontally around our learning room at eye level for the kids. When we colored our timeline last year the kids could really see visually how much of our history is Ancient!
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Marianne,
I like you division of time periods and your timeline sounds great. I put mine higher because I'm afraid my dd 18 mos. will rip the figures of the wall. What figures are you using?
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Cheryl,
I have the Homeschool in the Woods figures. They are not my first choice, but I have them so I'm using them. I think these are easy to color and more child friendly.
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Sometimes we print thumbnails off of the computer to put in their timeline books. It works well with the saints we read about. As for the wall, we use the Ultimate Geography and Timeline Guide. I see what you mean about the little one. We had that happen a lot but now our youngest is four year old.
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Thanks for the link, Mary Chris.
Marianne, I was thinking doing the thumbnails too. It's cheaper, but seems like it would be more work. Thanks for your responses to my questions.
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