Goal: place evens in chronological order. Number the cards on the back to show the chronological order. Place the first, last, and one middle cards on the table in order.
Past the remaining cards to players. Begin with the youngest player.
Player selects a card from your pile and call out its place amongst the table’s current timeline of Bible events. Next, flip over your card to reveal its number. If correct, add the card to the timeline. Claim victory by being the first to correctly place all of your cards. In her writings, Charlotte Mason recommended preparing a handmade Time Line Book (originally called a Museum Sketch Book; sometimes called a Book of the Centuries). This activity is based upon one of the major keys to motivation: the active involvement of students in their own learning.Students learn by doing, making, writing, designing, creating, and solving. Creating this Time Line Book is a marvelous way for students to not only be actively involved but to “pull it all together” and grasp the flow of biblical and historical events. Shuffle them and have the kids place them all event-up (dates down) and try to put them in order.
Put the cards in a stack, events facing up, and give each player five cards. Instruct the players not to turn their cards over to look at the numbers. Take turns putting the cards down on the table in the order the players think they occurred, checking dates as you place them. If the players are right about what order each card goes down in relation to the ones already down, they keep the card down and the next person lays a card down. If they’re wrong, they put it in the right place and draw a new card. The player who runs out of cards first wins. Keep the cards in a recipe box and make a new one each week to add in.
Learn about event, book of the Bible, people involved then file them in the proper place.
This is the PDF (with a completed colored timeline at the end) of the video in which I talk while making a timeline of the Bible, step by step. I've taught this timeline to my own children, to a children's Sunday School, and to two different women's Sunday School classes.
Digital Amazing Bible Timeline Pdf
Bible Timeline Chart Download
I myself have found it extremely helpful in remembering the chronology of the Bible and in being able to 'place' people and events into the Bible history. It is 31 minutes long and should be of interest (and understandable) to children about 7 years old and older and also to adults. It presents a 6,000 history of earth, but if you disagree with this, this video could still be used from Abraham on. This is a topic which I avoid on my audios, so parents who hold other views will feel comfortable playing them for their children. But with a timeline, naturally, I had to give my view of time! Of course, the Gospel is included.