Time Lessons

#TheCompleteSeries5lessons

This series of five lessons will remind your class of different measures of time and how they relate to each other, before recapping telling the time to the nearest quarter of an hour and the nearest five minutes.

With lesson plans, slides, activity ideas, differentiated worksheets, games, question cards and much more, these 'Time' lessons provide everything you need to teach your class about time without having to spend any of your own time on planning!

#Lesson1UnitsofTime

Teach children all about units of time – years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds. Take a look at using a calendar, too, with this Year 3 Maths lesson plan pack, worksheets and telling the time activities.

The first lesson in this series of five recaps what your class already know about measurements of time and explores how they are related to each other. The slides for the teaching input start by looking at how years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds are related and why its important to split time into different units. They will then look at calendars, learning the days of the week and months of the year in order, as well as how many days are in each month.

With such a lot of information to digest, the activities give opportunities for children to consolidate their learning by reinforcing the order of the months of the year and their number of days. There is also a ‘true or false’ activity that children can use to express their understanding.

#Lesson2TimeDuration

Compare units of time and use appropriate units of time to measure the duration of various activities. Year 3 Maths time interval lesson planning, worksheets and differentiated measuring time duration activities.

After recapping the different units of time and the relationship between them, children will look a little closer at comparing units of time and thinking about how long a variety of different activities would take. Would you measure eating a sandwich in hours, minutes or seconds? How long do you think it would take you to write your name? These are just some of the questions children will consider as a way to compare different measures of time.

#Lesson3AnalogueClockTime

Analogue clocks, reading the time and using the terms 'quarter past', 'half past' and 'quarter to' are the focus of this Year 3 Maths lesson plan pack, worksheets and differentiated time activities.

This lesson recaps how to tell the time to the nearest quarter of an hour. The slides start by taking a close look at an analogue clock as they explore what each hand of the clock does, before reading the time on analogue clocks using the terms ‘o’clock’, ‘half past’, ‘quarter past’ and ‘quarter to’. The activities give children the chance to practise both reading the time on analogue clocks, and drawing hands in the correct position to show a time being described.

#Lesson4AnalogueClocksRomanNumerals

Teach your class how to tell the time on a clock with Roman numerals in this Year 3 lesson plan pack, including differentiated Roman numerals worksheets and activities.

Now that your class have mastered telling the time to the nearest quarter of an hour, they have the added challenge of telling the time on a clock with Roman numerals. The slides guide the children through the number system used by the Romans, before reading the time on analogue clocks with Roman numerals. It extends to looking at telling the time in five minute intervals for those children who are confident in telling the time to the nearest quarter of an hour. The independent activities focus on children drawing the hands on a clock to show the correct time.

#Lesson5TellingtheTimeProblems

Assess how well your Year 3 pupils can tell the time with this lesson planning pack's time problems, including time word problems, visual problems, quizzes and worksheets.

In this, the final lesson of five in the 'Time' Complete Series, children are tasked with helping some confused characters work out where they are going wrong with telling the time on an analogue clock. Through each problem on the slides, they will have the chance to express their understanding. This lesson is ideal for helping to clear up any misconceptions for those children who may not yet be confident in telling the time. There is also a handy quiz to recap learning throughout the week.

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Curriculum Objectives covered

• Year 3 - tell and write the time from an analogue clock, including using Roman numerals from I to XII, and 12-hour and 24-hour clocks
• Year 3 - estimate and read time with increasing accuracy to the nearest minute; record and compare time in terms of seconds, minutes and hours; use vocabulary such as o’clock, a.m./p.m., morning, afternoon, noon and midnight
• Year 3 - know the number of seconds in a minute and the number of days in each month, year and leap year
• Year 3 - compare durations of even