ScienceMakers Toolkit Manual - The History Makers

General Rules
Each player gets to choose a particle. All particles are placed on the start space at the beginning of the game.
The players all toss the die and the one with the highest number chooses a particle and starts fi rst. This process
continues until everyone has chosen a particle playing piece and has started. Play proceeds counter-clockwise or
clockwise from highest to lowest number resulting from a toss of the die. In the case of a tie, the players who tie
should roll again to break the tie.
If your piece lands on a square with a word written on it, go to that stack, choose the top card, and follow that
instruction. When you are done, place the card at the bottom of the pile.
If your piece lands on a square with a written instruction, follow the instruction immediately.
After answering a question from a card, place the card at the bottom of the stack to be used again. You can either
advance two spaces (or the number indicated on the card) or obtain an energy card for each correct answer.
You go one space backwards for each incorrect answer (unless stated otherwise on the card).
Only one die is used in the game after the initial tosses. The fi rst player throws the die, counts the number of
dots and moves his particle piece that number of spaces around the board. Players must follow the direction(s)
on that space unless they have an exempt card.
When one arrives within fi ve spaces of entering the Universe, that player must throw exactly the number of
spaces needed to complete the game. Remember! S/he can only win if all players have crossed the barrier! The
barrier is a simple piece of paper - not provided by us but which you can easily produce - placed with tape on
the board on the square that suits you best. We suggest putting it after square 21 (starting from the Big Bang),
for example, between “technology” and “accelerators,” after the transition bonus jump. The “almost” winner
can decide to help the other players in order for them to cross the barrier and therefore let him or her win the
game.
Players may assist, upon request, another player to answer a question and can pass exempt cards to each other.
One must make it around the board in order to fi nish the game. The game is not won until the last player makes
it around the board.
For full rules and the game board, visit: http://public-old.web.cern.ch/public-old/Content/Chapters/Education/OnlineResources/Games-en.html
Shirley Ann Jackson - Video Clip Transcription
Clip 1 - Books and Kool-Aid: I loved school. I actually liked doing housework. I liked working in the yard.
And in the summers, I would love to ride my bicycle to the library, to the public library, and we could take out
fi ve books at a time. So I would always take out the maximum number of books. And what I loved about it is I
could just structure my life the way I want. Now my mother was working, my sisters were doing their thing. So
I used to have this routine, where I would make Kool-Aid, remember Kool-Aid? And I loved Saltines. And so
I would sit in the basement and I would read half the day, sipping my Kool-Aid and eating these Saltines. Now
usually in the morning in the summer, before I’d start reading, I went to take swimming lessons at a pool at
Coolidge High School. Now it turns out, I never really learned to swim.
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