Clock Watching

This Clock Watching planning pack, covering the time Year 3 Maths objectives, will not only help brush your children's skills of telling the time to the nearest minute on both analogue and digital clocks but will also give them the chance to use stopwatches to time events and compare their duration. They will also learn how to solve real-life problems involving time.

This series of time Year 3 Maths lessons comes completely ready for you to teach to your class. There are detailed lesson plans with three-way differentiation, a slideshow for each of the teaching inputs and fun and varied sets of printable teaching resources to support children as they carry out their Year 3 time activities.

 

To the Nearest Minute

The first lesson in this time Year 3 series of lessons builds on your class's existing knowledge of telling the time to the nearest minute on both analogue and digital clocks. They will match analogue and digital clocks showing the same times, as well as thinking of different ways these times can be expressed in words. There is also a quick quiz to recap their knowledge of time measures and how these are related to each other.

This lesson comes fully prepared and ready to deliver to your class. There's a lesson plan, a slideshow for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and a range of printable teaching resources.

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24-Hour Clocks

This 24-Hour Clocks KS2 Maths lesson for Year 3 starts by recapping the difference between a.m. and p.m. before looking at how 24-hour clocks use the 24 hours in a day to avoid any a.m. or p.m. confusion! Your class will learn to read a digital 24-hour clock and match hours past midday with their analogue counterparts.

This 24-Hour Clocks KS2 planning pack comes with everything you need to deliver this lesson and will have your class understanding and reading 24-hour clocks in no time! There's an easy-to-follow lesson plan, a slideshow for the teaching input, differentiated activities and a range of printable teaching resources.

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Using a Stopwatch

In this fun Maths lesson, your Year 3 class will start by predicting how long a variety of simple activities would take, from saying the alphabet to reciting a times table. They will then get the chance to test if their predictions were correct by using a stopwatch to time themselves. Your class will learn how to use a stopwatch accurately and how to compare the times they have recorded.

This Using a Stopwatch lesson comes fully prepared for you to deliver to your class. There's a detailed lesson plan, a slideshow for the teaching input, differentiated activities and a range of printable resources to support them as they predict and time their activities.

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Comparing Durations of Events

This lesson both encourages your class to work out how long certain events took (such as a train getting from one station to another) as well as comparing the duration of these events, providing a great way to encourage their time-reading skills and using their understanding to solve real-life problems.

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Time Word Problems

This Time Word Problems Year 3 Maths lesson gives your class the chance to consolidate everything they have learnt about telling the time and comparing the durations of events by giving them some challenging time word problems to solve.

The included slideshow presentation goes through a number of time word problems children can tackle in a whole-class situation. Children can then solve a variety of problems independently.

This Time Word Problems Year 3 planning pack comes with everything you need to deliver the lessons, including a lesson plan, slideshow presentation, differentiated activity ideas and a range of printable teaching resources.

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