20 Elapsed Time Activities

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1. The Human Stopwatch: In pairs, one person plays the timer and the other the stopwatch. The timer secretly chooses a random time interval (e.g., 48 seconds) and must accurately count that amount of time while the stopwatch acts as a regulator, checking for any discrepancy.

2. Time Hopscotch: This game combines physical activity with math skills by integrating elapsed time problems into a traditional hopscotch court.

3. Kitchen timer races: Using kitchen timers or stopwatches, students race to see who can set, start, and stop the device closest to an elapsed time goal (e.g., seven minutes).

4. Time Travelers: Students pretend they are time travelers, moving between significant historical events. They must calculate elapsed time between events in order to proceed.

5. Movie Marathon Planning: Students work in groups to plan a movie marathon based on their favorite movies’ running times. They calculate start, end, and total elapsed times for the marathon.

6. Build A Clock: Students create their own clocks from craft materials, then manipulate the hands to solve elapsed time problems.

7. Time-Determined Scavenger Hunt: Students solve elapsed time clues to find hidden objects in a predetermined area.

8. Word Problems Race: Create a set of word problems involving elapsed time and have students race to answer them correctly.

9. Basketball Time Sprint: A physical activity where students answer questions related to elapsed time while dribbling and shooting a basketball.

10. Time Zone Travelers: Students study world maps, learning about time zones and calculating the local times in various cities around the world based on given clock data.

11. TV Schedule Challenge: Hand out sample TV guides or schedules and have students determine program durations and estimate total screen-time.

12. Parachute 1030HIIRUVUActivity73_Time Patrol: Use a large parachute in outdoor activities to simulate a clock face, with students manipulating the parachute to demonstrate elapsed time amounts.

13. Train Timetable Challenge: Students decode train schedules and calculate journey duration, arrival times, and layover times for hypothetical trips.

14. Elapsed-Time Board Game: Create a board game based on elapsed time challenges and have students race to complete the game while solving problems correctly.

15. Musical Time Chairs: Play music while students enact elapsed time amounts (e.g., one minute or five minutes) by holding still in different positions around their chairs.

16. Time Capsule: Have the students fill a time capsule with items that represent an elapsed time concept, like graduations, birthdays, or holidays.

17. Parking Meter Math: Students use play parking meters to learn about adding coins for specific elapsed time intervals (e.g., quarter for 30 minutes).

18. DIY Sundial: Teach students how to make their own sundials and use them to track elapsed time using shadows and sun movement.

19. Sports Score Calculation: Have students calculate the remaining elapsed time in sports games based on various conditions, such as halftime, quarters, and timeouts.

20. Escape Room Puzzles: Incorporate elapsed time challenges into an escape room simulation where students must solve puzzles under specific time constraints.

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