How to Use ATLT

America’s Time Line Trivia is an excellent formative or summative assessment tool for classroom teachers. The computer program is a great supplement to any United States history curriculum. The game’s different questioning strategies assess students’ comprehension of content as well as show their ability to reconstruct the chronological order of significant events in United States history.

America’s Time Line Trivia includes study guides that outline major themes and concepts that cover most states’ content and chronological standards. The themes and concepts are divided into two categories; those that have changed across time and also those that are specific to different historical periods. The study guides also include tasks that will help your students process the content (events, legislation, people, etc.) in United States history with the major themes and concepts (topics of possible free response or DBQ essay questions for Advanced Placement students). These tasks can be used as classroom assignments or review activities. The information in the study guides are the topics of the questions in the America’s Timeline Trivia so you can have your students play the game as a summative or formative assessment.

America’s Time Line Trivia can be used as a fun, competitive classroom game or an individual assessment tool on a class computer or in a school’s computer lab.

Other Skills America’s Timeline Trivia will assess or develop in your students:

  • Understanding of Cause & Effect Relationships in United States history
  • Reading Comprehension Skills
  • Place Geography Knowledge of the United States

America’s Time Line Trivia will help you review for upcoming unit tests, semester finals, or national exams like the Advanced Placement United States history exam. It has a remarkable record of helping kids prepare for the Advanced Placement United States history exam.

America’s Time Line Trivia includes study guides that are excellent sources of information for review.

Other Features:

America’s Time Line Trivia gives teachers complete information about the progress of their student by illustrating the percentages the students scored on the three different question strategies.

Email capabilities so student can email their scores to their instructors.

America’s Time Line Trivia can be used in a variety of ways:

Suggestions for students:

  • Play for fun to get a high score
  • Play the game to review for an upcoming test
  • Play the two player version with a classmate for fun or review

Suggestions for teachers:

  • Take your entire class to your schools computer lab and have them spend a productive class period using the software for review or for fun.
  • The game is often used as a fun, competitive classroom game.
  • Teachers can an incorporate the study guides that come with game into their own class assignments and then use the game as an assessment tool.

America’s Time Line Trivia has all of these features and more!

  • The ability to tailor each game to the time periods that have been presented in the class curriculum
  • Over 950 Multiple Choice questions
  • Over 1050 Term/Description pairs that are presented in a matching format
  • 3 options for chronological order questions (4, 5, or 6 events)
  • Ten time periods from 1607 to the present (Choose 1 or any # of consecutive time periods
    • Jamestown – End of the Revolutionary War
    • Articles of Confederation – Era of Good Feelings
    • Rise in Sectionalism – Fort Sumter
    • Civil War – End of Reconstruction
    • Gilded Age – End of the Progressive Era
    • World War I Begins – Jazz Age
    • Stock Market Crash – New Deal
    • World War II Begins– 1950’s
    • New Frontier – End of the Vietnam War
    • 1970’s – New Millennium
  • Both one and two player games
  • Two levels of difficulty (Level 2 is great for Advanced Placement students or experts)
  • Multiple choice questions that test students knowledge of place geography
  • Study guides for each time period
  • A Statistics Sheet that gives details of the game including # of questions attempted, # answered correctly and percentages
  • Functionality to email the Stat. sheet from a PC that uses Microsoft Outlook

Don’t miss out on this great software that incorporates technology, a student’s competitive nature, and desire to learn about the history of his/her country into a fun, affordable learning tool! Click here to purchase, or to download a free trial version, click here (zip file).

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