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Grade 4 reading · Timeline

Timeline: Wangari Maathai

This timeline shows important events in the life of Wangari Maathai, who is remembered for starting a movement that planted millions of trees. Read it from top to bottom to follow the events in order.

Wangari Maathai: timeline
Year	Event
1940	Maathai is born in Nyeri, Kenya
1971	Became the first woman in East and Central Africa to earn a doctorate
1977	Started the Green Belt Movement to plant trees
2004	Became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize
2011	Maathai dies

Questions

Read a timeline According to the timeline, what happened in 1977?
Sent pages of his results to the mathematician G. H. Hardy in England Earned her engineering degree in Chandigarh, India Started the Green Belt Movement to plant trees Moved to Paris to study physics and mathematics at the Sorbonne
Read a timeline In what year did this happen? "Became the first woman in East and Central Africa to earn a doctorate."
2004 1971 2011 1940
Read a timeline According to the timeline, where was Wangari Maathai born?
Karnal, India Erode, India Warsaw, Poland Nyeri, Kenya
Timeline math How many years does the timeline cover from the first event after birth to the last event in the list?
34 64 33 43
Text features Why is a timeline a good way to show this information?
It explains the meaning of words. It shows how big things are. It shows events in the order they happened. It shows where places are on a map.

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