Chronos:  A Timelining Game for Elementary History,

The Chronos games asks students to timeline key events in the Elementary program. 

“Chronos, is a board game inspired by Timeline,  that features the 35+ events from the primary history program.  Chronos stimulates motivation in your students and promotes collaborative work. Throughout the game, students must build timelines in a competitive context. At the same time, they have to validate hypotheses in order to situate the events in relation to each other. Variations of the game are also proposed.  The target audience for the game is the 3rd cycle of primary school.”

This game was originally released by consultant Daniel Deschenes of the Commission scolaire des Découvreurs, Daniel’s original package includes a French presentation, a workshop with instructions, and playing cards presented as PDFs that you can print and laminate:  

(Pour télécharger le jeu original, visitez le CS des Découvreurs ici).

And now:  An English, adapted and expanded version:

About the card design:  Using live Google Drawings, the expanded English version includes the card’s picture front, and the usual dated back.  These are the two card faces used in the game.  We added extra information on the back side, including summary text and a QR code that links to the original text source (often a Societies and Territories page) and, in some cases, a QR code that leads to videos, 3D or 360-degree virtual reality tours, mapping locations, etc.! 

The Chronos English GHCE Edition contains:

• Updated Chronos Timeline game instructions 
• Google Slides Chronos cards (for Cycle 2 and Cycle 3) 
  These can be downloaded as a PDF.  You will need to go into your layout settings and set it to print two cards per page. You may need to adjust the scale. 
  
• You can also access individual cards as Google Drawings here.

Remember: You can design other games and /or create your own cards using these cards as templates. You can also check out our additional resources on game creation. Creating games can be a great learning activity for students!