Abstract
The history course at primary school could be extremely challenging for both, teachers and pupils: the understanding of history imply the development of a certain mindset and to learn a huge amount of information. Shifting the educational perspective from data learning to cognitive operations could help teachers to find more interactive and effective methodologies of teaching, transforming the ‘history course’ into an ‘history lab’. In particular, among the cognitive operations, ‘theming’ is the most intriguing and stimulating to teach and learn. Games and board games expressly designed for history classes could help to make it also funny.