You might like to: <br />
<ul>
<li>Complete the silhouettes of the candle and the sundial - two
different ways of measuring time.</li>
<li>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?</li>
<li>Repeat the experiment. Does your ability to
estimate improve? </li>
<li>List words associated with time or measuring time.</li>
<li>Search the Internet or available encyclopedias to find other
different types of instruments for keeping time.</li>
<li>List all the ways in which you have had to tell the time,
estimate time or use time during today or yesterday.</li>
<li>Using a 3 minute and 5 minute timer show how you could
accurately time 11 and 18 minute experiments.</li>
</ul>
<div>Parents you might like to:</div>
<ul>
<li>Explain the meaning of digital and analogue time by looking at
rail and / or bus timetables</li>
<li>Find all the different time pieces you have at home. Discuss
how accurate they are, or how accurate some time pieces need to
be.</li>
<li>Talk about 'the good times', possibly comparing school times
with hometime.</li>
<li>Complete and research the saying: 30 days hath September,
...</li>
<li>Decide how to calibrate candles into suitable units of
time.</li>
</ul>
<div>Teachers you might like to:</div>
<ul>
<li>Explore palindromic time e.g. 12:21 within a 24 hour
period.</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>Consider all the diffrent things that children can complete in
30 seconds or one minute.</li>
<li>Illustrate the different time zones across the world and talk
about the International Dateline.</li>
<li>Develop the theme of time in poetry.</li>
</ul>
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