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Time Pirates is the most concise online resource in the world for educating children about the history of the port of London. It is supported offline by colourful posters, reward stickers and postcards. The site covers 7 time periods, 30 riverside locations, 18 games and a host of interactive characters representing famous and real Londoners throughout history: multicultural, rich and poor, men, women and children. It is a fantastic class or homework resource and includes printable worksheets, a facility to create your own photo gallery from cartoons on the site, a tool to publish your own work and Teachers/Parents notes with a search facility linking to the QCA schemes of work.
The storyline plot:
In the dim and distant future lives a mad, evil genius who wants to take over and rule the past. The only way this can happen is if he destroys history and removes all memories of what has happened in the past so he transforms a group of mice into a gruesome team of time travelling pirates! They are sent back in time to do his bidding and soon enough they start returning laden with treasures from the past. Back in the 21st Century people are starting to see things disappear from Museums. The government despairs as everything held by museums and galleries is vanishing into thin air. The user is on a school trip to a museum. There are seven empty cabinets (representing the seven time periods). The user chooses a missing artefact to retrieve and is pulled back in time. In each time period the user to has to visit riverside locations, answer clues and win games to find the missing artefact and zap the time pirate.
www.portcities.org.uk/london/timepirates
Caroline Teunissen
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