Build a timeline
Stretch a string across the room and clip events on index cards as you study them: Mayflower, Revolution, Constitution. Kids walk the timeline and see how far apart events really were. It turns "a long time ago" into something they can picture.
Why it works: kids understand an idea best when they touch it, then draw it, then write it, the order the U.S. Department of Education recommends for elementary math.
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