Biblical Timeline

 BIBLICAL TIMELINE

In Room 9 for maths the circles group have been working on a biblical timeline.

For the biblical timeline we had to find out about B.C and A.D. We had to apply our past knowledge. We learnt that B.C meant Before Christ and A.D meant after Jesus’ death. We learnt that the numbers for B.C are backwards, for example Daniel was born in 623 B.C and he died in 539 B.C.

To understand this you need to know about integers.

How we created the scale for the timeline.

The first thing we did was measured the length of the 4 windows making sure we will have enough ribbon to go right across the top. The windows were 5.92m long

-Next we cut the ribbon to a 6m Length

We wanted the timeline to go from 8000 BC to 2000 AD

The first time we did this we subtracted 2000 from 8000 instead of adding. Once we put the ribbon up we realized that we had used the wrong operation. So we had to start again!

This is how we worked it out correctly.

8000+2000=10000

We decided that we would have a scale of 1000 years.

This is what we did to reach this decision

We found out that between each 1000 years was 55 cm which means that there were 5.5 cm between each 100 years

-Then we placed the ribbon on the top of the window.

Placing the Biblical Characters on the Timeline.

We then researched other biblical time lines to find out when Noah, Moses, Joseph, David and Goliath, Jonah, Abraham, Elijah, Jacob and Jesus were around.

After that we printed off clipart about those people and coloured them in.

Finally it was time to put all the pictures up on the timeline. We initially just guessed where they should go but Mrs Lieshout us to round it out to the nearest 100.

This was quite a challenge but this is what we did.

We found out that between each 1000 years was 55 cm, which means that there were 5.5 cm between each 100 years.

WHAT WE LEARNT FROM MAKING THE BIBLICAL TIMELINE  

 -We used many different strategies including addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.  

-We learnt a lot about AD and BC.

-We also learnt about what happened when Moses, David and Goliath, Joseph, Daniel Noah were around.

All together it was a great learning experience and was also very different to what we were used to.