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Our Story
Includes "Time Line Board," 200 colorful Event Cards, playing die, attractive easy-to-store box |
| Perspective...The Time Line Game didn't start out to be a game at all. The idea for Perspective began on the kitchen table! Read this excerpt from an interview with the inventor: "I was no great history student. I never could grasp the order of things. One year in school, we'd study the Middle Ages. The next year, it would be dinosaurs. Still later, we learned about the Golden Age of Greece. I thought that this was the order in which things happened! First the knights of the Round Table, then Tyrannasaurus Rex, and Socrates last of all! A generation later when my own child was in school, little had changed. History was taught in blocks, or units, and no attempt was made to relate the units to each other. But what is history if not the flow of events? Kids, I observed, were still having trouble fitting the pictures together, just like I had when I was their age. So, we made a game of it at home. We created cards that described the things that students studied in school... Neanderthal Man, the voyage of Magellan, the Boston Tea Party, Sputnik--all the events and historical figures that came up in class. We wrote the dates on the backs of the cards, for reference. Then, we spent hours experimenting with putting the cards in order, talking about how one event led to another, about how history really does make sense after all! Perspective...The Time Line Game started out on the kitchen table. Soon, however, adults as well as children were saying, "Let's play that game you invented." (although at the time we didn't even know it was a game!) We'd pull out the cards (hundreds of them by this time) and take turns arranging them in historical order on the living room floor. And that is how Perspective...The Time Line Game, came to be. It arose out of a practical need to make sense of things! |
| The Rocky Mountains of Colorado were the backdrop for the first testing of Perspective...The Time Line Game. Enthusiastic test players experimented with early versions of the game at their kitchen tables, at house parties, on camp-outs and in their classrooms. Local schools welcomed Perspective and sponsored tournaments and "historical perspective" study units, where students created their own original "event cards," allowing them to place their own personal histories in perspective with the rest of the world. The picture above shows Mount Sopris outside of Carbondale, Colorado, where our office is located. |
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