Time Mesh

Serious game for teaching history of Europe

SELEAG Project

• Develop educational game for teaching history of Europe

• 12-15 age students• 1400 - 2000 period of European history• Multidisciplinary: history, geography, economics,

social and cultural aspects• Multilingual and Multiplayer• Online and Extendable• www.seleag.eu

Goals of the History Curriculum

• Rise the interest• Understand main terminology of history• Acquire chronological framework• Know the map• Understand the connections between present and past• See the connections between different historical events• Understand that one event can be interpreted differently• Develop skills needed for justifying personal opinion• Put learners in the position of people lived in the past• Defines itself as a member of Europe

Important Processes that Shaped Europe During Last 600 Years• Reformation• French revolution• Industrial revolution• The born of nation based countries• Maritime History and Colonial countries• I World war• II World war• Cold war• European Union• Collapse of the Soviet Union

Goal of the game

• Increase students' social awareness• Create a positive attitude towards learning• Create a positive attitude towards an

European identity• Develop decision-making and strategic

planning skills

Scenario of the Game

• The present time in the game is different from the reality e.g. less countries in in the Europe

• Some important events have not taking place e.g. Germany didn’t lost the war

• Player has to go back in time and fix the history– to influence important historical actors– to ensure that historical events will take place

• At the same time they hiddenly learn important issues from that period.

Example from the Game

Important issues

• No violence e.g. focusing on cryptography and code breaking instead of battles and killing

• Gender issues e.g. focusing on cooperation instead of competition

Welcome to play!

www.timemesh.eu