World of Tan 24 - Clocks

• consider the following problem - you have a 7 minute timer and an11 minute timer. How will you use them to help you boil some pasta for 19 minutes?
• List all the words to do with time, the passing of time and how we measure time.
• Find out all you can about GMT
• Explore the Internet to find out about the International Date Line and how some countries are in front of Greenwich Mean Time while some are behind.

• Talk with the children about the passing of time - how it seems to pass that much slower when you are younger
• Investigate and explain all about the different time zones of somewhere like America or Asia.
• Compare time scales - in geology with that of kings and queens say.
• List all the things you and the children can do in five minutes
• Explore ways of estimating unaided a second, a minute, an hour; vi. devise a time line for your family
• Explain the phrase "doing the books".

• Explore some of the proverbs and aphorisms associated with time
• Consider different types of time keeping devices the children could make - candles, water clocks, pendulums
• Explore fully the meaning of words like era, generations, universal time (UT) / coordinated universal time(UTC), calendars; the moveable religious feasts and festivals
• Devise experiments for children to estimate the passage of time e.g. keeping quiet for a minute and a half. Writing/ doing an excercise (or similar activity) for ten minutes;
• Encourage the children to write some time related stories e.g. parallel time.
• Explore the arithmetic of time by starting to find what times you can and cannot measure with 11 and 7 minute timers! What about other timers?
• Explore the phrase "in keeping with your generation" - what other phrases mean the same thing?