Children you might like to: <br />
<ul>
<li>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?</li>
<li>List all the words to do with time, the passing of time and how
we measure time.</li>
<li>Find out all you can about GMT</li>
<li>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.</li>
</ul>
<div>Parents you might like to:</div>
<ul>
<li>Talk with the children about the passing of time - how it seems
to pass that much slower when you are younger</li>
<li>Investigate and explain all about the different time zones of
somewhere like America or Asia.</li>
<li>Compare time scales - in geology with that of kings and queens
say.</li>
<li>List all the things you and the children can do in five
minutes</li>
<li>Explore ways of estimating unaided a second, a minute, an hour;
vi. devise a time line for your family</li>
<li>Explain the phrase "doing the books".</li>
</ul>
<div>Teachers you might like to:</div>
<ul>
<li>Explore some of the proverbs and aphorisms associated with
time</li>
<li>Consider different types of time keeping devices the children
could make - candles, water clocks, pendulums</li>
<li>Explore fully the meaning of words like era, generations,
universal time (UT) / coordinated universal time(UTC), calendars;
the moveable religious feasts and festivals</li>
<li>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;</li>
<li>Encourage the children to write some time related stories e.g.
parallel time.</li>
<li>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?</li>
<li>Explore the phrase "in keeping with your generation" - what
other phrases mean the same thing?</li>
</ul>
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