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How to Understand Centuries (Printable)

A first step in teaching history should start with the process of understanding centuries.

While reading to the kids from our history book today, I came across the term "18th century," so I asked the kids to which years that was referring. Jaden responded correctly almost immediately, but Jerah just gave me a puzzled and confused look.

Suddenly aware that the direction of our lessons needed to take a small detour, I closed the history book, grabbed my handy-dandy white board and marker, and proceeded to draw a time line on the board so I could explain centuries to my daughter. It took only about 10 minutes of explanation and verbal drill, but she finally grasped the concept.

And with that information fresh in my mind (and looking for a good excuse not to wash the dishes), I was inspired to write up a learning worksheet about centuries.

So if your homeschooling materials don't include a good explanation of centuries for your kids, or if you've struggled with how to explain it, feel free to download this two-page pdf for your use. The first page explains how centuries are defined, and the second page has two sections of written drills where the student is required to write the equivalent century or years for the given information.

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Comments

  1. The Happy Housewife says

    April 22, 2008 at 8:21 am

    YOU MADE THOSE WORKSHEETS!

    AWESOME!

    Can you come over to my house and teach me how to loose my compulsive dishwashing habit and start making cool homeschool stuff for the kids… I am not kidding!

    Toni

    Reply
  2. Kate (A Simple Walk) says

    April 22, 2008 at 8:11 pm

    Those worksheets are great Joy! I am definitely downloading them and printing them out. We'll use them this week for sure. THANK YOU!

    Reply
  3. Jennifer says

    September 25, 2009 at 6:40 am

    Hi, I just stumbled across your site and you have some great stuff! I was just talking with my daughter about the centuries the other day and now I find your worksheets! Thank you so much!

    Reply
  4. Pat says

    September 25, 2009 at 2:16 pm

    These are great, Joy! It's really thoughtful of you to share them with us! Thank you!
    .-= Pat´s last blog ..Enjoy Healthy Chocolate Made at Home =-.

    Reply
  5. i LOVE P!nk says

    July 30, 2010 at 9:24 pm

    thx so much i have 2 retake a exam on centuries and that helps heap thx sooooo much <3 🙂

    Reply
  6. Nicole Pressburger says

    August 9, 2010 at 6:38 pm

    Thank you so much, I was so confused how id managed to live for more or less 2 centuries and im only 24…. its all clear now im fine !!
    Thanks your daugter is very lucky to have such a clever human being !!
    xxx

    Reply
  7. Kimberly says

    October 18, 2010 at 1:25 am

    Great worksheets! Thank you. I could have really used those when I was younger, heck I could use them now:)

    Reply
  8. Gurangad Kindra says

    March 11, 2011 at 5:03 pm

    WOW, this is awesome work,i was taught about the century system in my 8-9th grade(now in my 3rd year of business administration) , i knew it, but also knew that there was some link missing which is clarified now, thanks for sharing!!

    Reply
  9. Janet says

    March 21, 2011 at 11:08 am

    Thank you for all the wonderful worksheets..you have been a great help to us.

    Reply
  10. Nicki says

    December 6, 2011 at 8:06 pm

    Thank you for this post. I'm volunteering with 6th graders in social studies and this is a big help.

    Reply
  11. Paula Kuitenbrouwer says

    June 7, 2012 at 5:16 am

    Super worksheets for a home schooling mum.
    Many many thanks!

    Reply
  12. Keller says

    August 6, 2014 at 6:21 pm

    Awesome! Thanks. -History Teacher

    Reply
  13. Janeen Domitrovic says

    December 1, 2016 at 4:00 pm

    Thank you! These are perfect and to the point.

    Reply

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