This week you have an opportunity to show everyone that you really do understand Timelines. This is our last week to show Hornsby Council that the Water Clock should stay.

Use A Timeline

Click on this link :: http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa121599a.htm

Look :: at the Inventions Timeline from 1900 - 2000 and try to find the answers to these questions

1. In what year was the vacuum cleaner invented?
2. Who invented teabags?
3. Which was invented first, Bubble Gum or Lifesavers?
4. Which was invented most recently, ball point pens or fibre tip pens?
5. Who is older a Cabbage Patch kid or Barbie?
6. Who invented crossword puzzles?

Share :: Your most interesting answer on the WebBoard
Click on the "Stage 2 :: Timelines" Conference, then look click on the "Post a New Topic" link. You can now post your message.

Create Your Own Timeline

Click on this link :: http://www.questacon.edu.au/innovaus/hlframes.html

Go to :: the Category selector and choose Clever Australians and from the Story selector choose Australian Science Nobel Prize Winners

Look :: at the prize winners

Click on this link :: http://www.pm.gov.au/your_pm/prime_ministers.html

Look :: at our Prime Ministers from Ben Chifley to John Gorton

Draw :: a timeline for the period of time from when Ben Chifley became Prime Minister to when John Gorton completed his term as Prime Minister.

Use :: these two sites

Show :: as accurately as you can on your Timeline, when those five Prime Ministers were in office and which years an Australian won the Nobel Prize

Click on this link :: http://inventors.about.com/library/bl/bl12.htm?PM=ss13_inventors

Choose :: the ten best inventions from 1945 to 1971

Add :: these to your timeline.

If you are very clever you could draw your timeline on the computer and post it to the Webboard or you can do it on paper and display it in your classroom.