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What the Timeline Tells You is a free printable Kindergarten to Grade 2 social studies worksheet on finding information on a timeline, aligned to C3 Framework indicator D3.1.K-2. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two students in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.

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What the Timeline Tells You

D3.1.K-2

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Read each timeline, then answer the questions.

1.Read the timeline, then answer the questions.

Timeline: Ways of Writing

A timeline written for this worksheet. It counts back in years ago, from ancient times to modern times. About 5,000 years ago: People in Mesopotamia write by pressing marks into clay tablets. About 1,900 years ago: People in China make paper. About 575 years ago: Johannes Gutenberg prints books on a printing press in Germany. About 150 years ago: People begin typing letters on typewriters. Today: People write on computers and phones.

  1. 1. Which is the oldest way of writing on this timeline?
  2. 2. Did typewriters come before or after the printing press?
  3. 3. Which way of writing belongs to modern times?
2.Read the timeline, then answer the questions.

Timeline: Getting Around

A timeline written for this worksheet. 1807: Robert Fulton's steamboat carries passengers on the Hudson River in New York. 1869: Railroad tracks join at Promontory Summit, Utah, linking the East and the West. 1908: Henry Ford's company begins selling the Model T car. 1956: Congress passes a law to build interstate highways across the country.

  1. 1. Which came first, the steamboat or the Model T?
  2. 2. Whose steamboat carried passengers on the Hudson River?
  3. 3. Before 1869, could a train cross the whole country? How do you know?

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Answer key — What the Timeline Tells You

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  1. 1.1. Pressing marks into clay tablets, about 5,000 years ago. 2. After. Typewriters came about 150 years ago and the press about 575 years ago. 3. Writing on computers and phones today.
  2. 2.1. The steamboat, in 1807. 2. Robert Fulton. 3. No. The tracks linking the East and the West joined only in 1869.

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to D3.1.K-2 of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.