Changing Time

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Detailed lesson plans, informative and engaging slides, a variety of differentiated activities and a range of printable resources make this Changing Time Year 5 scheme of work a breeze to teach...although we're not sure your class will find some of the tricky problems included so simple to solve!

#Lesson1ConvertingUnitsofTime

This Converting Units of Time Year 5 Maths lesson takes a look at a variety of units of time and encourages your KS2 children to explain what they are and how they relate to one another. They are then challenged to convert time measures through a variety of fun activities. And the plenary is sure to have them doing some head-scratching as they think about microseconds, milliseconds, nanoseconds and other more obscure units of time!

This Converting Units of Time Year 5 planning pack comes completely ready to teach. There's a lesson plan, a slideshow that guides you and your class through the learning, differentiated activity ideas, and a range of printable resources, including worksheets, activity cards, game instructions and more!

#Lesson2SolvingUnitsofTimeProblems

Your Year 5 class will cover the objective 'solve problems involving converting between units of time' in this ready-to-teach KS2 Maths lesson as they use all four operations to solve units of time problems. The included slideshow presentation goes through some examples of word problems, giving your Year 5 children the chance to have a go at solving these challenging questions, before modelling methods for answering them.

During their independent learning activities, they can then solve a variety of problems involving converting between units of time independently through differentiated activities.

This lesson comes prepared with a lesson plan, slideshow and printable resources.

#Lesson3TimeWordProblems

This Year 5 Time Word Problems lesson will put their clock-reading skills to the test as they solve a variety of time word problems that involve finding the difference between two times. They will also need to convert some of the answers from hours to minutes and vice versa.

There are differentiated daily timetables for children to use to solve time word problems during their independent learning activities, as well as some clock cards, using both analogue and digital clock faces to challenge them.

This Year 5 Time Word Problems planning pack is ready for you to download and teach to your class, providing all you need to challenge each learner in your class.

#Lesson4OrientExpressTimetables

Introduce your class to one of the most famous trains in the world with this Orient Express Timetables Year 5 Maths lesson! After recapping how to tell the time on a 24-hour digital clock, your KS2 class will read and interpret timetables and use the information to solve problems, all using the premise of going on an adventure on the Orient Express.

This timetables Year 5 lesson will help your class to become more familiar with reading and interpreting timetables, and comes with all the resources you need in order to deliver the lesson. There's an easy-to-follow lesson plan, a slideshow for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and a range of printable worksheets.

#Lesson5TheApolloMissions

In the final lesson of this series, your Year 5 class will find out about the Apollo space missions and explore how long each mission lasted for. They are also challenged to arrange the mission durations from shortest to longest. To do this, however, they will need to convert the units of time so they are all the same.

There is also the added challenge of working out exactly when the missions landed back on Earth using the date and time of the launch and the mission duration!

This Year 5 lesson will help your class become more confident in solving problems relating to converting between different units of time, and the best part is that it is fully planned and ready to deliver! There's a detailed lesson plan, a slideshow for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and a range of printable worksheets and other resources.

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Curriculum Objectives covered

• Year 5 - solve problems involving converting between units of time
• Year 5 - complete, read and interpret information in tables, including timetables