A Step Towards the Future

Have you ever worked on a project, put so much effort into it and actually liked the end product? Me too. I recently had to create a timeline for my evolution class about Earth's history. Sounds pretty easy, right? However, the instructor requested us to be creative about it. She didn't want us to do a simple linear timeline; no, she encouraged collages, videos, pictures, and, interesting enough, songs. I'm not quite sure how a song would work but I would like to hear one.

I decided to lean towards a drawing. I had a couple of ideas but I wasn't quite sure which to go with. I could have done a stair case... no, too boring. A fast forward video of drawings on a white board? Post-it note flip book? A maze showing start to finish with events along the path? I liked these ideas but I wasn't sold. The one I decided to go with was drawing foot prints. As cheesy as it sounds, everything in Earth's history was done a step at a time.

As I began my drawing, I took my time and paid attention to detail. After about five hours of working on it, I finished and I'm happy to say that I genuinely like it! Pictured below, the timeline I created: "A Step Towards the Future" is shown.

Figure 1. My timeline depicting the steps that molded the Earth we see today.