📅 Part 1: Understanding Timelines

1. What does a timeline show us?

The order of events in history

How much money things cost

What the weather was like

How tall people were

2. On a timeline, which direction shows events getting older?

Left to right

Right to left

Top to bottom

It doesn't matter

3. If Captain Cook arrived in New Zealand in 1769 and the Treaty of Waitangi was signed in 1840, which happened first?

Captain Cook's arrival

Treaty of Waitangi

They happened at the same time

4. How many years passed between Captain Cook's arrival (1769) and the Treaty of Waitangi (1840)?

61 years

71 years

81 years

91 years

🔢 Part 2: Ordering Events

5. Put these New Zealand events in the correct order from oldest to newest. Write numbers 1-4 next to each event (1 = oldest, 4 = newest):

____ New Zealand becomes nuclear-free (1987)

____ Māori arrive in New Zealand (around 1300)

____ Women get the right to vote (1893)

____ Captain Cook arrives (1769)

6. Look at these dates and circle the one that comes BETWEEN 1850 and 1900:

1840

1876

1920

1801

7. Explain why it's important to put historical events in the right order:

8. If you were making a timeline of your own life, what would be the first event you would put on it?

9. Create a simple timeline below showing these three events in your life. Draw a line and mark where each event goes:

• When you were born • When you started school • Today