Time Measures Project – Education and Transformation

Check out in this post the Time Measures Project. Excellent suggestions for working with students from initial series.

Goals

• Encourage the exchange of experiences and knowledge.
• Make the student know how to debate ideas, raise hypotheses, develop strategies and apply them.
• Identify and list time units on a calendar: days of the month, weeks of the month, months of the year.
• Identify how dates are recorded.

Cross themes

Ethic:dialogue, mutual respect, solidarity.
Environment: observation of the weather.
Cultural plurality: different ways of transmitting knowledge and different cultures. Citizenship: individual and collective rights and duties.

Material to be used

• Photos and texts about old and current clocks.
• Cardboards,
• pens,
• paper,
• Glue,
• scissors for the calendars.
• Calendars and calendars.

Step by step of the Time Measures Project

First step: Awareness

Awaken in the student the importance of measurement units in our lives:

• What day of the week is today?
• How many days is left until the weekend?
• What month and year are we in?
• How long has it been since you were born?

Report that, since ancient times, humanity has realized that the sun appears and hides on the horizon every days, that the Moon changes its aspect at certain times and that there are times of the year with colder days and others more hot. Therefore, he was concerned with determining measures for time.

Men relied on agriculture: soil preparation, planting, growing and harvesting crops.

Ask students to bring a watch to the next class.

2nd Stage: The hours

By observing the different types of clocks brought to the class, ask them to compare, formulate hypotheses and identify the characteristics of your watch: what represent the numbers, the hands, the colons, the zeros etc.

Display a digital and analog clock drawn on card stock in large sizes to make discoveries together with the students.
Record all findings and differences between the clocks in the notebook.

3rd Stage: The week, months and year

Making the class calendar. Ask students to look at the calendar they brought and respond:

• What are the days of the week? Record responses on the class calendar.
• How many days are there in the week?
• How many days are there in a month? Glue the days of the months.
• How many weeks are in a month?
• What is the first month of the year? And the others? Register on the calendar.
• What month are we in? Paint on the calendar.
• Which months are 30, 31, 28 or 29 days old?

Post the class calendar on the wall so that students can observe the change each day.

Record the findings in your notebook and make a calendar with students for each.

4th Stage

Provide an exhibition of clocks, with antique clocks and their evolution through time, requesting research materials for students.
Also display the calendars made by them.

interdisciplinary work

Art: making the calendar.
History: evolution of time measurement instruments through texts and photos.
Portuguese: reading and writing time measurements.
Sciences: Earth movements.
Computing: internet searches on the topic.
PE: work out the duration of the games: football, basketball, etc.