Week Beginning 17th June - Time Problems and Converting between units of time,

LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Understand how to convert between different units of time and how to solve problems involving time.

SUCCESS CRITERIA: You wll be able to convert between units of time and solve time problems

ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITY: Millenium TIme Problems (81)

STARTER: Weds Page 50 of Foundation e-text Book
STARTER Thursday:

Convert the following into Days, Hours and Minutes:

1. 1,500 Minutes = 25 hours - 1day & 1hour

2. 4,000 Minutes =  66 hours & 40 mins = 2 days 18 hours & 40 mins
3. 5,350 Minutes = 89 hours & 10 mins= 3 days 17 hours and 10 mins
4. 10,000 seconds = 166  mins 40 secs =  2 hours 46 mins 40 secs 

LESSON: Discuss units of time  - Secs, mins, hours, days, weeks.... and how to convert one into another. Get students to create their own  staircase to convert.

Online Conversion Tool

Convert the following into Days, Hours, mins, secs
1. January and March
2. 3 weeks
3. 1.5 weeks

Convert the following into minutes
1. 2 days
2. 12 hours 35 mins
3. from 04:15 to 17:05

How may seconds are there in:
1. 2 days
2. 5 hours
3. between 9:00am and 1:35 pm

How many days have you been alive