Which came first?
A Social Studies learning game for primary school, Grade 3 to Grade 6
Timeline is a chronology and history game for grade 3 through grade 6. A clothesline stretches across the top of the screen — right is the past, left is the future — and the child picks up cards from a basket and hangs them on the line in the right order.
The Android app is on Cafe Bazaar and Myket, Iran's app stores. Anywhere else, play the online version in any browser.
Timeline is part of the Nikipoo School app, alongside 85 other games. The game is in Persian.
Historical time is abstract for a primary schooler; “two hundred years ago” and “last year” may feel the same in their mind. Timeline makes these distances visible: a clothesline where the right side is the past and the left is the future, and the child hangs the cards on it in order. It starts with yesterday and today and the story of the child's own life, moves on to a four-generation family album and comparing lamps, travel, and letters in the past and today, and in grades 5 and 6 reaches the ancient dynasties and the periods from the Samanids to the Qajars.
The child doesn't just say what came before; they have to find each card's place relative to the others on the line. This is the foundation of “historical thinking”: understanding that events sit along a continuous span, and that centuries separate the Achaemenids from the Safavids.
The family-album levels and “grandparents' time” invite the child to see themselves as one link in a chain. This feeling that people came before them, and lived differently, strengthens family identity and makes conversation with elders sweeter.
In grade 4, the child sees that we know the past from photos, objects, writing, and memories. This is a first exercise in critical thinking: every piece of knowledge comes from somewhere, and its source can be asked about; a habit that will help the child weigh what they hear in later years.
A card placed in the wrong spot gently returns to the basket, along with a message like “a bit toward the future!” This feedback, instead of passing judgment, tells the child which direction to think in. If the same card still doesn't fit, its correct spot lights up so the child can see it and learn.
A tip for parentsOne evening, bring out old family photos and have the child arrange them on the floor by year: grandmother as a child, the parents' wedding, the child's own birth. Then ask the grown-ups to share a memory about each photo.
Level titles are listed in the order the child plays them — from easy to hard, following the school textbook.
Grade 318 levels
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Open Nikipoo School — Timeline and 85 other games are waiting for you.
The Android app is on Cafe Bazaar and Myket, Iran's app stores. Anywhere else, play the online version in any browser.
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