Seconds, Minutes and Hours - Worksheet

This worksheet is a teaching resource designed to help students grasp the basic units of time: seconds, minutes, and hours. The worksheet begins with straightforward questions aimed at establishing foundational knowledge. Students are asked to specify the number of minutes in one hour, identify the smallest unit of time, determine the number of seconds in a minute, and calculate the hours in a day. These questions serve as a quick assessment to ensure that pupils have a clear understanding of time measurement and its hierarchical structure.

The second part of the worksheet provides a more practical application of the concepts learned. Students are presented with a list of everyday activities, such as an aeroplane flight, brushing teeth, putting shoes on, pouring a glass of juice, sleeping at night, and eating a hot dog. For each activity, they are instructed to circle the most appropriate unit of time that would be used to measure its duration. This exercise encourages students to think critically about time and how different activities can vary in length, thereby requiring different units of time to measure them accurately. It's an engaging way for students to relate abstract concepts of time measurement to real-world scenarios.