While my children are mostly auditory learners, I am not. I discovered this when we had listened to the Timeline song a bajillion times and I STILL could not remember what came after Early Native Americans. In fact, I should have noticed this when our family visited Serpent Mound in Ohio and I absentmindedly sung about Mesoamerican civilizations. (Note: Ohio is not in Mesoamerica. I hate to admit that I sometimes forget to engage my brain in thought processes.)
Memory work songs do help me, but I just need a little visual help in addition to singing. (Some would argue that I need help with the singing part, too.)
Enter: Timeline Thumbnails.
I sat at the table one day reviewing the first six weeks of our timeline and sketched out the first thing that came to my mind for each timeline event. In some cases, I just wrote a single word or abbreviation, and in other cases, an image popped into my mind.
Would you believe it?!? After three years of just singing the timeline, this year I have finally mastered the first six weeks! All I needed was another method!
To download the Timeline Thumbnails Templates, select from:
Timeline Thumbnails – 6 weeks per page.
For all 23 weeks of timeline thumbnails, visit Memorizing a Timeline with Timeline Thumbnails.
Here’s hoping this little tool helps other visual learners like me!
