Time - Compare durations of time - Planning

In a Year 2 Summer lesson on Time, students are taught to compare durations of time using a variety of resources such as worksheets and presentations. The key vocabulary for the lesson includes terms like 'o'clock', 'half past', 'quarter past', 'quarter to', 'hour', 'minute', 'duration', 'longer', and 'shorter'. To reinforce these concepts, the website offers vocabulary cards and definitions. The lesson commences with a starter activity where students recap their previous learning by solving a true/false question about travel duration and then exploring different ways to represent their answers, such as using a number line. Partner work encourages children to compare different time durations, such as half an hour versus a quarter of an hour, and to use reasoning and mini clocks or number lines to prove their answers.

During the lesson, students engage in various activities designed to build fluency in comparing durations of time, including practical exercises where they use clocks and number lines to calculate and compare the lengths of two films. They are encouraged to use key sentence stems to articulate their reasoning. The lesson also includes a reasoning activity that prompts deeper thinking about time concepts, where students must provide examples and representations to support their answers. The plenary session revisits the use of equality symbols and how to write inequality statements, with the whole class practicing together. To conclude, children reflect on what they've learned, the skills they've used and found tricky, and what helped them in the lesson. Differentiated outcomes are outlined for children working towards the expected level, at the expected level, and at greater depth, with each level involving increasingly complex time comparison tasks.