Tiki-Toki: The First Sixteen Presidents of the United States

Social Studies - 2nd Grade

Standard 2 

(Citizenship): Students will recognize and practice civic responsibility in the community, state, and nation.
Objective 1

• Examine civic responsibility and demonstrate good citizenship.
• Describe characteristics of being a good citizen through the examples of historic figures and ordinary citizens. 
• Explain the benefits of being a U.S. citizen (e.g., responsibilities, freedoms, opportunities, and the importance of voting in free elections). 
• Identify and participate in a local civic activity. (e.g. community cleanup, recycling, walkathons, voting). 
• Identify state and national activities (e.g., voting, Pledge of Allegiance, holidays). 

Educational Technology - (Grades 3-5)

Standard 5 

Use technology tools (e.g., multimedia authoring, presentation, web tools, digital cameras, scanners) for individual and collaborative writing, communication, and publishing activities to create knowledge products for audiences inside and outside the classroom. (3, 4)

ISTE Standards for Students

Empowered Learner

I use technology to set goals, work toward achieving them and demonstrate my learning.

Tiki-Toki is a wonderful tool for teachers to show a timeline to students because it makes the time line very easy to read and understand. I think as a teacher I wouldn't have students below the fourth grade level work with Tiki-Toki because there are somethings with the website which could get difficult to explain to younger students. I think for the older grades this tool could help students make some amazing types of timelines from the timeline of a war to the timeline of someones life. I really think that this would be best for teachers to show students timelines in the younger grade because its just a different type of way of keeping the students engaged in what is being taught. 

The First Sixteen Presidents of the United States