Time & Place Game 1
First
Time
First
Place
Second
Place
Second
Time
Ireland
Peru
Kenya
Algeria
15.10
09.00
10 pm
11.25 am
19.05
21.40
03.22
8.45 pm
Argentina
Iceland
East
America
Bolivia
23.45
00.30
06.35
17.23
10.30 am
18.58
14.38
00.30
Madagascar
Greenland
Poland
Italy
East
Australia
Saudi
Arabia
South
Africa
Russia
Explore a time zone map of the world such as:
http://www.davidsemporium.co.uk/map_files/fuseaux.png
Discuss the time differences going east from Ireland.
Has anyone travelled to a foreign country and had to change the
time on their watch when they got there? Tell us about it. If I
were to travel east to France/Egypt/China, when I get off the
plane will I have to put my watch forward or backwards? By how
much? Why is there a time difference between Ireland and these
places?
Now discuss the time differences going west from Ireland.
If I travel west to Brazil/Mexico/Alaska, when I get off the plane
will I have to put my watch forward or backwards? By how
much? Why is there a time difference between Ireland and these
places?
Explain that the pupils are now going to play a game called Time & Place in pairs. Distribute
packs of game cards and a recording sheet to each pair. (See the appendix for game cards and
recording sheet). Display the time zone map of the world on the whiteboard. Pupils place the
time cards face down in one pile and the place cards are placed face down in another. Pupils
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draw a Time card, put the time in the left-hand column of the table and place the card on the
bottom of the deck. They then draw a Place card and put the name of the city in the next
(First Place) column and place the card on the bottom of the deck. They then draw another
place card, put this in the ‘Second place’ column of the table and place the card on the bottom
of the deck. They then calculate what time it is at the second place when it is the first time at
the first place. If the second place is in the same time zone as the first place, they time will
remain unchanged. They put their answer in the last column of the table.
When the table has been filled, get the class to report back to each other on what they have
just done.
Extension Activity. Get pupils to compare their completed tables with each other but to hide
the name of the second place with their ruler. The challenge is for the other pair of pupils to
identify the hidden country based on the corresponding second time