Time & Place Game

Time & Place Game ¹

First Time	First Place		Second Place		Second Time
Ireland		Peru		Kenya		Algeria
Argentina		Iceland		East America		Bolivia
Madagascar		Greenland		Poland		Italy
East Australia		Saudi Arabia		South Africa		Russia
15.10		10 pm		19.05		03.22
09.00		11.25 am		21.40		8.45 pm
23.45		06.35		10.30 am		14.38
00.30		17.23		18.58		00.30

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?


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?
Now discuss the time differences going west from Ireland.

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 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

1^ http://nzmaths.co.nz/resource/time-zones