Royalty of Norway Timeline Game
We have several versions of the Timeline Game from Asmodee. They come in various themes and usually in small packages so they are a game that travels easily. To make the game really compact, you can wrap a rubber band around just the deck of cards and be on your way. The canister does help keep it all together though and doesn't take up that much space.
You can use these cards as they are, by subject such as "Music and Cinema" or "Inventions" but we chose to combine our cards and sort them into time period decks. So, when we are studying ancient history, we use all the cards that are "BC" so before the first year of our Lord, for example.
We also make our own cards to fit with units we are studying. The Asmodee Timeline Game comes with very small cards, and you could try making them that small to match, but we chose to make our homemade ones on 3x5 index cards because they are cheap (100 pack for $1 at Dollar Tree) and easy to handle.
Here are some of the events you can use to go along with a study of the royalty of Norway, since that is the unit I am currently writing. You can find my unit studies on the CurrClick website at https://www.currclick.com/browse/pub/1195/Corinne-Johnson
King Harald I was the first king of Norway. He worked to unite the
country during the 9th century (800’s).
In 1219, King Haakon V died
and his son Magnus, who was the king of Sweden took over rule of Norway.
In
1397, Denmark, Norway and Sweden aligned together as the Kalmar Union under the
rule of Margaret I, a Danish princess who married Magnus’ son Haakon VI.
In 1523, Sweden left the union and elected its own king.
Norway
remained united with Denmark until 1814 when Denmark ceded Norway back to
Sweden. Norway tried to resist but was swiftly occupied by Swedish troops.
In 1810, Jean-Baptiste Bernatdotte was adopted by King Carl XIII
of Sweden. He took the throne of Norway as King Carl XIV Johan in 1818.
His
descendants include monarch Oscar II who continued to rule in Sweden even after
being forced from the throne in Norway. This family continued to reign in
Sweden into the 21st century.
Rising Nationalism gave way to Norway’s
independence in 1905.
Prince Carl of Denmark, the second son of the Crown
Prince was voted unanimously into the throne. He became known as King Haakon
VII.
He helped Norway to remain neutral during WWI but fled to England when
Nazi German troops invaded during WWII.
He remained in exile for five years
until he was welcomed back in 1945.
He ruled until his death in 1957.
He
abandoned neutrality and Norway joined NATO in 1949.
Haakon’s son Olav ruled
until 1991.
King Harald V is the current rule of Norway. He reigns with his
wife Sonja. They have two children, Crown Prince Haakon and Princess Martha
Louise.
In 1988, when Harald was Crown Prince, he dedicated the Norway pavilion
at Epcot.
Each card gets and event written on each side, one side includes the year the event happened and the other does not.
Once you have made all the cards, you are ready to play the timeline game. Each player lays a set number of cards in front of them on the table (the number of cards is determined based on the level of difficulty/length of time you want the game to have). The rest of the cards make a draw pile. All cards are "date side down". The top card from the draw pile is turned over to reveal its date. Players take turns trying to place their cards, one per turn, into the correct position on the timeline. Correct placements are left on the table and new cards must fit into place among them all. Incorrect placements are discarded, and the player must draw a new card.
The first player to correctly place all of their cards is the winner.
One of my favorite things about this game is that I can sort the cards for each game and give students a new experience each time. Also, cards can be added to the game at anytime, so the difficulty level grows with your students.
Want to see more ideas about Norway? Check out my unit studies at Currclick
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