Activity 1: Sequence Drill

Directions: Make a relative timescale of 5 important events that have happened in your life

and show them in chronological order. After making a relative timescale, assign dates to

your 5 important events.

TIME SCALE

Relative Scale Absolute Scale

Example: I was born when World Trade Center was

attacked

I was born last Sept. 11, 2001

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The way the relative events are arranged in your data is like how the geologists studied the

Earth’s history: its geological timescale of Earth’s age and how it is determined. ​