These slides have been made by a pupil as a contribution to the Module Historical time - Social perspective - RSgS eTwinning - Comenius project - Nov. 2014 - Liceo Machiavelli - Roma

1. Timeline
Men always tried to represent visually, abstract ideas such as
feelings, thoughts, ideals…
Many are the ways of representing these concepts (symbols, graphs
or drawings) and the main forms of art are, in fact, their conversion
into visual aids.
Something that people always wanted to depic was “time”. But the
question is: how can you represent something that is continuously
changing? Well, during the centuries, men found the most creative
and original ways of doing this, for example by drawing huge, colorful
maps or putting dates and events into the picture of an animal (see
http://www.brainpickings.org/2012/02/07/cartographies-of-time/ ).
Using this method, they could visualize time, and, above all, organize
and divide it. In fact, this made it easier to check occurrences and
historical events and to separate different quantities of time.
A wide spread and very useful method to show how time passes is
the ‘’timeline’’. It is a line (or a long arrow) and brings the
cronological succession of events. Nowadays, we use timelines, for
example to study historical facts, or literary genres, but also to show
how things change during the years.
An example of timeline is the one I represented (see slide 2) to make
you see that sport has been given lots of different meanings through
time, but, at the same time, also in terms of geographical position.
Its the first slide of a ppt we’re cooperatively making with our PE

2. Men invented movement…
…and changed the way of seeing it.
Assyrians and
Egyptians
Greeks
Romans
Middle
Reinassance Age
America
Asia
India
China
Japan
Modern Sport
Italy
Sports Events
New sports from
America
Professionals and amateurs