Year 3 Time

Take maths outdoors with engaging, practical time lessons where children use chalk, sticks, and stopwatches to explore analogue and digital clocks. Through active games and real-life challenges, pupils will master reading time, calculating durations, and converting between formats, making learning memorable and meaningful.

Lesson Plans

Telling the time to 5 minutes.

During this outdoor lesson, children will use chalk and sticks to secure their understanding of how to read an analogue clock to 5 minutes. This easy to resource lesson can also be used to cover time to 1 minute intervals too!

Learning objective:

To tell the time to 5 minutes.

Using a 24-hour clock

The main activity of this outdoor lesson gives your children plenty of opportunity to practise telling the time and converting between 12-hour and 24-hour time, while incorporating discussion to develop their reasoning skills.

Learning objective:

To use a 24-hour clock.

Calculating start and end times

Deliver an active outdoor lesson for your children to apply their time knowledge to calculate start and end times and durations of events. The easy-to-resource main activity is a great alternative to using worksheets.

Learning objective:

To calculate start and end times.

Measuring time in seconds

During this outdoor lesson your children will develop their skills in using stopwatches to estimate and read time in minutes and seconds, while taking part in team games to apply this skill in context, recording and comparing times.

Learning objective:

To measure time in seconds.

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