Reading a Timeline: Transportation

Speed toward total understanding of timelines and transportation in this terrific worksheet! Students will read a timeline with five important events in the modern history of transportation technology, such as the development of the bicycle and the invention of the gas-powered car.

Designed for fourth and fifth graders, this worksheet can help improve students’ ability to read a timeline and to order and sequence historical events. Students will also learn about some of the inventors and innovations that have shaped technology in the modern world.

For more techy timelines, check out Reading a Timeline: Communication, Reading a Timeline: Space Travel, and Reading a Timeline: Air Travel.