Learning Path
Exploring Time with infant classes Learning Path
By PDST
This learning path, suitable for infant classes, supports the development of understanding the concept of time and appropriate vocabulary of time through a series of challenges, tasks and activities. This is reinforced through exploration of time by sequencing events of the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
5 resources in this Learning Path
1
Time - How long now?
https://nzmaths.co.nz/resource/how-long-now Added: 24 Mar 2020 Contributor: PDST Resource type: Guide/notes / Lesson PlanActivities that help learners understanding of the passing of time and leading to the idea that time is continuous.
These activities include:
1. Who finishes first?
2. Clapping Time
3. A big clock
4. Making Clocks
5. The Best time of the day
Activities can be completed at home with learners making resources to accompany activities
How it maps to the curriculum
- in
- Mathematics
Strand: Measures
Strand unit: Time
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- develop an understanding of the concept of time through the use of appropriate vocabulary
2
Time - Passing Time
https://nzmaths.co.nz/resource/passing-time Added: 24 Mar 2020 Contributor: PDST Resource type: Guide/notes / Lesson PlanDeveloping an understanding of the concept of time, passing time and appropriate vocabulary.
In these five activities the students explore sequences of time and the concept of faster and slower.
The activities include:
1. Time on a line
2. My Day
3. Week days
4. Fast and Slow
5. Ages
How it maps to the curriculum
- in
- Mathematics
Strand: Measures
Strand unit: Time
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- develop an understanding of the concept of time through the use of appropriate vocabulary
- sequence daily and weekly events or stages in a story
Suggestions for use: Lesson ideas that can be completed in class or at home. Some preparation of basic resources
3
Sequencing Times of Day
https://nrich.maths.org/6609 Added: 24 Mar 2020 Contributor: PDST Resource type: Game / Guide/notes / Lesson PlanThis activity is a good way to familiarise children with vocabulary associated with the passing of time. It will lend itself to quality pupil-pupil and pupil-teacher talk as learners justify their ideas to someone else.
View full descriptionHow it maps to the curriculum
- in
- Mathematics
Strand: Measures
Strand unit: Time
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- develop an understanding of the concept of time through the use of appropriate vocabulary
- sequence daily and weekly events or stages in a story
Suggestions for use: Sequencing activity
4
Eric Carle reads The Very Hungry Caterpillar
https://www.smore.com/z78v-eric-car...ce=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer Added: 21 Jul 2015 Contributor: Yvonne Whelan Resource type: Audio / VideoThis website has several stories available to view including The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Grouchy Ladybird and The Tiny Seed.
View full descriptionHow it maps to the curriculum
- in
- SESE Science
Strand: Living Things
Strand unit: Plants and Animals
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- become aware of animals and plants of other environments
- become aware that animals and plants undergo seasonal change in appearance or behaviour
- observe growth and change in some living things
Suggestions for use: The life cycle of the butterfly.
5
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Quiz
http://www.goodreads.com/quizzes/57...ry-hungry-caterpillar-by-eric-carle Added: 21 Jul 2016 Contributor: Róisín McMahon Resource type: AssessmentQuiz based on the story The Very Hungry Caterpillar
View full descriptionHow it maps to the curriculum
- in
- English
Strand: Useful Websites
