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How Can Parents Use The World Timeline?
As you examine the timeline with your child you can help to further his or her knowledge about North Carolina and our global community in several ways.
Where Have All The Countries Gone?
1) Use a good search engine (Google, Yahoo, Mamma) to look up the names of places and people you do not recognize.
2) Use a world map to locate the countries that are mentioned in the Timeline.
3) Discuss with your child why names might have changed for those countries (different governments, new people, wars)
4) Use a map of North Carolina to find the places where the capital has been located during our history.
5) Discuss with your child why the North Carolina capital would have been moved (population density, close to transportation centers, wars).
6) Talk about what events might happen in the future to change the seat of North Carolina government again.
Fill In The Blanks
1) Plan a family project to find out what is happening with the North Carolina government in the years that aren’t mentioned in the timeline. (Just because the building isn’t on fire doesn’t mean that important events are not happening!) Have each family member take a ten-year span of time and fill in some important legislation that is happening in our state.
2) Create your own timeline from the time periods that you have researched.
3) Research what legislation is happening today that will impact on your family and your community. You can find information about this topic in your local newspaper or at the North Carolina General Assembly web page.
4) Talk about how this legislation will impact your family with your children and how we can express our viewpoints to our representatives.
Who's In Charge Here?
2) Research the information and use different colors to indicate Governors and Presidents.
3) Add the Kings, Queens, Czars, or Emperors of any country that you are particularly interested in to make your timeline a global project.
4) If you have family history available, include your relatives in your timeline so that you can see who was President and Governor when Grandma was born.
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