notes leave the chart out for a while and allow their children to discuss give their opinions and debate amongst themselves on this information this may be incentive for the children to pick up the timeline of life again we also refer to the black strip they may want to compare all three this time we mentioned and named the eras and give the etymology give the etymology to help the children remember the names and understand the terms we relate the names of the eras to what has happened and we mentioned time passing as if on a real clock this material is not a jigsaw puzzle that would be useless busy work without involving the reasoning mind do not ask the children to copy the chart if they want to that's okay it is not a suggestion that should come from you but a choice they make if they desire it this presentation is to give an impression that is focused on time and the preparation needed so that the earth was ready for human beings to come another fact you can go back to when the children are researching and studying the development of civilizations is that toward the end things seem to go faster smaller and smaller eras with more happening we see this in human history as well it took a long time for civilization to rise then cities developed quickly flight was invented and then it seems like suddenly we're going to the moon next thing you know we have people living in space it was not all that long ago that it was decided that it was safe to sail the seas and not fall off the edge just think of what has happened since then on the clock of eras the last fourteen and a half seconds of clock time not even a minute not even half a minute compared to the rest of time holds in it all of human beings and all human history keep in mind with lessons that human beings could not have come before we actually did as we may not have survived it is the same with civilizations they need a certain basis of invention and ideas in order to survive without all of this we would not now have that which we enjoy as part of our daily lives the colors used are the same colors as on the timeline of life be sure you use the same colors when coloring your timeline as are on your chart second chart is a key and not needed during the presentation you