Time Machine Cards

These cards are relatively simple and can be utilized to help students practice labeling months and years. There are 24 cards in the set, covering the months of the year and years 2001-2010.

Game Ideas:

TIME MACHINE FLIP-GAME: The basic idea here is that students have stepped into a time machine, and random flipping of cards will inform the students as to what month and year they step out again. Place all the cards face down on the table. Students take turns flipping two cards, but the first card they need to successfully flip is a month card and the second must be a year. If this doesn't happen, they 'step back' into the time machine again and receive no time travel points. Even when they do flip a month card first and a year card second, they need to successfully state the date in order to receive time travel points (the month/year sequence here is recommended in order to encourage students to state month and year in that order, ie. "I'm stepping out of the time machine and it's... November, 2001"). This game/activity can be built up first by focusing on months or years in isolation.

TIME MACHINE RESCUE MISSION: The concept here is that certain students have stepped into the time machine and emerged to become "lost in time". Now it will be up to one of their classmates to also enter the time machine and come to their rescue! Place the students in pairs, preferably split up so that they are some distance from each other in the classroom. Decide which person is lost and which person is coming to their rescue. Deal a random month and a random year card to each of the lost students. These cards will tell the lost person what time they are in. The rescuers then attempt to guess the date their partner is lost in, as they cannot see the cards and the lost person is not allowed to speak until they are 'found'. The first rescuer to find their lost friend is the winner of that round. Alternatively, choose one or two students only to be lost, with the other students taking turns attempting to be the rescuer by guessing the month and year one of the students is lost in.