Past, Present, and Future

Teacher Name

Amy Lane

Subject

History/Social Science

Grade Level

1st Grade

Time duration

20 Minutes

Materials needed

Lesson Plan, Laptop, Smart Board, Smart Board Markers, Boardmaker

Timeline Document

Lesson Objective
VA SOL 1.1 The student will interpret information presented in picture
timelines to show sequence of events and will distinguish among past,
present, and future.
This lesson will be the introductory lesson for this standard of learning
and will specifically focus on distinguishing among past, present, and
future.
Purpose of the lesson

The student will be able to distinguish between the past, present, and
future by explaining that the past consists of events that have already
happened, the present consists of events that are currently happening
and the future consists of events that will happen one day.
Students need this skill to be able to effectively understand the
dimensions of time and history itself as well as to be able to
communicate correct information concerning whether an event has
already occurred, is occurring, or will occur.
At the end of the lesson students will be able to draw their own timeline
of their life consisting of an event that happened in the past, an event
that is happening right now, and an event that will happened one day in

the future.

Activity

The teacher will have the timeline displayed on the smart board at the
beginning of the lesson. She will explain to the class that they will be
learning the difference between the past, the present, and the future.
The first timeline displayed has a picture of horse drawn carriages as a
means of transportation in the past, a picture of a Toyota Camry as
means of transportation in the present and a picture near the end of the
timeline of a futuristic production of a flying car as a means of
transportation in the future. The teacher will then explain that the past
is our way of explaining things that have already happened, the present
is a way of explaining things that are happening now, and the future is a
way of explaining things that will happen. She will stop for questions,
comments, and assess knowledge via asking and answering questions.
The teacher will then display the second timeline from boardmaker on
the smart board which consists of a timeline labeled Past, present, and
future with pictures displayed beside the timeline of events that have
happen in a students normal school day (Waking up, eating breakfast,
riding to school, attending group time at school, doing homework, doing
chores, going to bed, etc). She will explain to students that now they are,
as a class, going to make a timeline of their typical school day. She will
pick students one at a time to come up to the board, choose a picture,
and drag it to the correct location on the timeline whether it be past,
present, or future. She will discuss each picture as it is chosen and assess
knowledge by listening to class discussion and asking questions of each
student. After the class timeline is completed and all the pictures are
correctly placed on the timeline, the teacher will once again cover the
difference between the past, the present, and the future.

Assessment

The formal assessment will come in the form of a homework assignment

where students are to make their own timeline consisting of one event at
has happened in their past, one event that has happened in their present
(explained as within the current school day), and one even that they
hope to happen or think will happen in their future. For each event they
should have a sentence labeling the event (i.e. I will become an astronaut
in the future, I lived in Florida in the past.), an illustration with each

event, and each event must be correctly placed on the timeline.