Help your Year 4 class become fluent in telling the time and using time to solve a variety of problems with this Telling the Time KS2 Maths scheme of work. Through this series of five lessons, your children will consolidate their understanding of reading and writing the time on analogue and digital 24-hour clocks, as well as looking at different measures of time and the relationships between them. You’ll soon have them converting years into months, minutes into seconds and vice versa!

These Telling the Time Year 4 lessons provide everything you need for a complete week of teaching the time. Each lesson comes with an engaging and easy-to-follow slideshow for the whole-class teaching input that clearly outlines the teaching point for each lesson, offering opportunities for children to engage with the learning through questions and activities.

Each of these Telling the Time lessons also contains a corresponding lesson plan with differentiated activities for their time activities (as well as an alternative activity) and a range of printable resources, including time worksheets, blank clock faces, challenges and much more!

Matching Analogue and Digital Times

Matching analogue and digital times can be a tricky concept for children to grasp but this ready-to-teach Maths lesson for Year 4 will help them figure it out!

The lesson starts by recapping how to tell the time to the nearest minute on both analogue and digital clocks. It then challenges your KS2 class to match analogue and digital times on 12-hour clocks, and convert times from one to the other. As an alternative activity, there is also the option of using their knowledge to create a visual timetable to show what time the class undertake different activities during the day.

This Matching Analogue and Digital Times planning pack provides everything you need to teach this lesson, including a lesson plan, a slideshow for the whole-class teaching input, and a range of printable resources.

24 Hour Clock Times

Teaching 24 hour clock times to your class has never been easier with this ready-to-teach 24 Hour Clock Times lesson planning pack for Year 4. During the lesson, your children will think about how times shown on a 24-hour clock relate to activities during the day, as well as converting times from analogue to 24-hour digital time.

The independent learning activities provide lots of fun activities to help cement their understanding of the 24-hour clock and the times of everyday events.

This planning pack for Year 4 teachers includes everything you need deliver this lesson, including a lesson plan, slideshow for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and a range of printable resources to make teaching 24 hour clock times easy, fun and engaging.

Converting Units of Time

This Converting Units of Time Year 4 Maths lesson recaps the relationship between units of time, such as years, weeks, months, days, hours and minutes, before looking at how we can convert years to months, hours to minutes, minutes to seconds, and vice versa. Your Year 4 children will also have the chance to order and compare times once they have converted them all to a single unit of measurement.

This Converting Units of Time lesson planning pack contains all the resources you need to deliver this Maths lesson to your Year 4 class, including an easy-to-follow lesson plan, a fun and engaging slideshow for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and a range of printable resources to support your children as they carry out their independent learning tasks.

Converting Time Word Problems

This Converting Time Word Problems Year 4 Maths lesson challenges your class to use what they know about converting hours to minutes, minutes to seconds (and vice versa) to solve a variety of Year 4 time word problems.

The included slideshow presentation for the teaching input has some converting time word problems to solve as a class to get them started before tackling a variety of problems independently. There is also the option of working as a group to time themselves with a stopwatch, converting their results and ordering them to see who completed the activities the quickest!

This lesson provides everything you need to get your Year 4 class solving time word problems independently, including a lesson plan, slideshow, differentiated activity ideas and a range of printable resources.

More Time Conversion Problems

Your Year 4 children will have the chance to solve some more time conversion problems in this KS2 Maths lesson, this time solving word problems related to converting years to months, weeks to days, and vice versa.

After solving some converting time word problems together on the slides, your class will either convert ages to months and order from youngest to oldest, or convert years to months to compare the gestation periods of a variety of animals.

This More Time Conversion Problems lesson pack comes with a lesson plan with differentiated activity ideas, a slideshow for the whole-class input, and a range of printable resources to support children in their independent learning tasks.