World of Tan 16 - Time Flies

• Complete the silhouettes of the candle and the sundial - two different ways of measuring time.
• Work with a friend - one of you try to estimate a minute before standing up while the other carefully times a minute. By how many seconds were you out?
• Repeat the experiment. Does your ability to estimate improve?
• List words associated with time or measuring time.
• Search the Internet or available encyclopedias to find other different types of instruments for keeping time.
• List all the ways in which you have had to tell the time, estimate time or use time during today or yesterday.
• Using a 3 minute and 5 minute timer show how you could accurately time 11 and 18 minute experiments.

• Explain the meaning of digital and analogue time by looking at rail and / or bus timetables
• Find all the different time pieces you have at home. Discuss how accurate they are, or how accurate some time pieces need to be.
• Talk about 'the good times', possibly comparing school times with hometime.
• Complete and research the saying: 30 days hath September, ...
• Decide how to calibrate candles into suitable units of time.

• Explore palindromic time e.g. 12:21 within a 24 hour period.
• Discuss the notion of subjective time - i.e. 5 minutes spent doing the washing up as opposed to 5 minutes spent watching TV or eating ice-cream.
• Consider all the diffrent things that children can complete in 30 seconds or one minute.
• Illustrate the different time zones across the world and talk about the International Dateline.
• Develop the theme of time in poetry.