Bundle of team work starters - Technology Timelines

A bundle of 5 different themed technology timeline starters featuring Inventions, Hardware, Computer Games, Females in Computing and Sci-Fi Films. These make great starters for any lesson or year group but are particularly good for GCSE Computer Science or IB courses to get them talking about influential individuals or pieces of technology.

What you need to do is divide your class into mixed ability groups of 4 (pairs also work well) and give them a blank timeline board, the 17 events, and the set of 4 team cards. Each person needs to read out their card and see if they can put a few of the key events down (each card tells them the date of one event). They then need to use their team work skills to work out the dates for the other events not mentioned on their card, but that links to or is mentioned on another card.

I would recommend laminating the blank timeline boards, team cards and the printable cards so that you can use several times with different classes. I printed off two copies of each board so that I had a couple of spares. Any teams that finished early were then given a new board to solve together. If several teams finished at the same time I got them to swap over their boards.

Be vigilant about some of the cut up events going missing! I labelled on the back of the events what themed board they went with (e.g. CG2 = Computer Games Set 2) as I was worried about them getting jumbled up when I collected them in.

Please review this resource, I’d love to get your feedback and find out other ideas for how to use these in class!

Check out my other resources too if you have found this set useful - I’ve got loads of other bundles or entire units of work for programming, HTML, animation, drones, using Adobe Illustrator and other graphic design bits and pieces.

Enjoy :)