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Time Trial Cards and School Programs

From the CE1 to the Terminale, Time Trial Cards helps students build their time markers by placing events, characters, inventions and great transformations in the right order.

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Learning History by Building Timeline

Time Trial Cards is a complementary tool to work on chronology and memory of historical landmarks. The sequences are organized by school level to allow teachers to quickly select activities adapted to their students.

The content offered by Time Trial Cards is based on the major periods, themes and skills worked in French school curricula.

🏫 Elementary school

From the CE1 to the CM2: gradually build its first temporal and historical landmarks.

EC1 — Spot in time

In Cycle 2, the student gradually learns how to locate himself over time, understand the succession of events and use different tools to represent time.

School programme: for the school year 2026-2027, the EC1 still falls « Questioning space and time ». The new history-geography program of Cycle 2 published in 2026 must be implemented from the beginning of the new year 2027-2028.

Sequences Time Trial Cards

🚲 Travelling over time Means of transport over time — 8 cards
💡 The objects of our daily life familiar objects invented at different times — 8 cards
📡 Communicate once and today Ways to Communicate From Past to Today — 8 cards
✍️ Write over time From ancient writing to modern means of writing and printing — 8 cards
Consult the Official Resources School — Cycle 2

EC2 — From time lived to historical time

In CE2, students deepen their understanding of long time. Chronological boundaries gradually allow us to situate events and observe the evolution of societies, techniques and lifestyles.

Sequences Time Trial Cards

💡 The great inventions that have changed life Inventions that have transformed daily life — 10 cards
🚂 From velocipede to modern transport Evolution of land movements — 10 cards
📱 From telegraph to smartphone The evolution of the means of communication — 10 cards
🔬 Observing, Measuring and Understanding the World Instruments invented to observe and measure — 10 cards
Consult the Official Resources School — Cycle 2

CM1 — First civilizations to Napoleon

History Program:
Theme 1 — And before France?
Theme 2 — The time of kings
Theme 3 — The Time of Revolution and Empire
🏺 And before France? Discover the first civilizations and major landmarks before France — 12 cards
👑 The time of kings Putting Kingdom kings and events in order — 11 cards
The Time of Revolution and Empire Reviving the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era — 10 cards
Consult the official elementary school curricula

CM2 — From the Republic to European integration

History Program:
Theme 1 — The time of the Republic
Theme 2 — The industrial age in France
Theme 3 — France, from world wars to the European Union

Students build their landmarks around the political, social and industrial transformations of contemporary France, the two world wars and the construction of Europe.

Consult the official elementary school curricula

🎒 College

From the 6th to the 3rd: consolidating the great landmarks of history.

6th — From the beginnings of humanity to antiquity

Main axes: the long history of humanity and migration, the founding narratives and citizenships in the ancient Mediterranean, then the Roman Empire and ancient worlds.

Time Trial Cards allows us to work on Prehistory, the first civilizations, the Greek world, Rome and the great landmarks of ancient civilizations.

Consult the College's official programs

5th — Middle Ages and Early Modern Times

Students study in particular the medieval worlds, the relations between Christianity and Islam, the construction of powers and the transformations that gradually lead to modern times.

Consult the College's official programs

4th — 18th and 19th centuries

Time Trial Cards allows us to work on the chronology of Enlightenments, revolutions, industrialization and major political, economic and social transformations of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Consult the College's official programs

3rd — 20th century and contemporary world

Students build their landmarks around world wars, 20th century political regimes, the transformations of France, European construction and the contemporary world.

The chronological frieze allows to relate events studied separately and to better understand their succession and simultaneity.

Consult the College's official programs

🎓 High school

Second, First and Terminale: mastering the necessary benchmarks for understanding the modern and contemporary world.

Second — The main stages of the formation of the modern world

The program allows us to understand the legacy of antiquity and the Middle Ages, as well as the political, cultural, economic and social transformations that contribute to the formation of the modern world.

Time Trial Cards consolidates the many chronological benchmarks needed to understand these periods.

Programmes and resources School — High school

First — From the French Revolution to World War I

Main themes:
Europe facing revolutions
France in the Europe of nationalities
The Third Republic before 1914
The First World War

The chronological sequences allow to relate changes in regimes, revolutions, economic and social transformations and conflicts of the long 19th century.

Programmes and resources School — High school

Terminal — 1930s to the present

Main themes:
Fragility of democracies, totalitarianism and World War II
The bipolar world and new international actors
Economic, political and social transformations since the 1970s
The world, Europe and France since the 1990s

Time Trial Cards helps build a global chronological vision of the 20th century and consolidate the benchmarks needed to understand the contemporary world.

Programmes and resources School — High school

Another way to work with time markers

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Building benchmarks

Understand what happens before, after or at the same time.

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Remember

Increasing the memory of dates, events and periods.

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Review

Take the large sequences studied in the classroom in an interactive form.

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Connecting events

View events from different spaces on the same timeline.

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Learning by playing

Progress through trial, error and repetition.

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Use in class

Choose the sequence corresponding to the level and learnings of the students.

Use Time Trial Cards with your students

From the CE1 to the Terminale, select sequences adapted to your class level and have the chronology work differently.

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About School Programs: les références aux programmes présentées sur cette page s'appuient sur les programmes et ressources publiés par le ministère de l'Éducation nationale et Éduscol. Time Trial Cards est un outil pédagogique indépendant et n'est ni édité ni agréé par le ministère de l'Éducation nationale. Les séquences Time Trial Cards constituent des activités pédagogiques conçues pour accompagner l'acquisition et la consolidation des repères chronologiques.