Universal Heritage: Timelines of the Universe, Life on Earth, and Humankind

     What a bargain!  This poster is available from www.timelineposter.com for only $14.95.  The website describes it more thoroughly than I can:

The new Universal Heritage poster is a valuable reference tool for anyone interested in science, history, and our place in the universe.  Summarizing 13.7 billion years in a series of timelines, it chronicles the evolution of the universe from the Big Bang to the 21st century.  Each consecutive timeline focuses on a shorter span of time, so you can directly compare the scale of human history to the far longer scales of evolutionary history.  An especially unique feature is that the poster shows how we are related to other living things, by zooming inward through successively smaller branches of the great family tree of life-starting with the major domains and kingdoms, then moving through vertebrates, mammals, primates, and finally, humans.  By showing how we fit into wider realms of nature and history, the poster offers a unique and enlightening perspective on our place in the universe.

     This resource may help science and social studies teachers develop an interdisciplinary unit. . .