Math - Grade 5 - Time

Math - Grade 5 - Time ajlill Fri, 12/05/2008 - 16:12

Rationale

To teach the children to relate the 12 and 24 hour clocks, to measure time intervals to the nearest second, and to determine elapsed time.

Vocabulary

elapsed time, millennium, century, decade, year, month, day, hour, minute, second

Expectations

Overall Expectations

  • Estimate, measure and record ... elapsed time, using a variety of strategies.
  • Determine the relationship among units and measurable attributes.

Specific Expectations

  • Estimate, measure, and represent time intervals to the nearest second with and without sing a time line.
  • Solve problems regarding the relationship between a 12 and 24 hour clock.

Settings

Students

They should be able to estimate and measure elapsed time to the nearest 5 minute interval, with or without a time line.

Classroom

Sink, graduated cylinders,

Assessment

Final summative test covering SI notation, elapsed time, 24 hour clock.

Task Overview

  1. Introduction to time - what is a second, how many seconds in a minute.
  2. Measuring time - how to measure time to the second using a stopwatch, and a wall clock.
  3. Water Clock Experiment - applying how to measure time.
  4. Measuring time worksheet.
  5. Formative test.
  6. 24 hour clock. SI units.
  7. summative quiz

Accommodations

Level 4
Early finishers will be directed to finish Social Studies work or independent reading of Greek myths.
Level 1/IEP
The summative test is recall and application. The only modification for IEP is to length.

0 - Introduction to Time

0 - Introduction to Time ajlill Sun, 12/07/2008 - 20:07

Specific Expectations

Determine if the children can convert from analog to digital, and from descriptive to digital.
See if they can do any arithmetic with time.

Materials

Generate clock worksheets on Math Fact Cafe

Important Terminology

second, minute, hour

Background Knowledge

Hook

Lesson Sequence

15 min - Take up Volume test.
5 min - Introduce unit. Lay out Experiment and Final quiz.
15 min - Administer diagnostic test.
15 min - Talk about seconds - how short they are. Ask when you would want to measure time that accurately.
Talk about rounding seconds to minutes.
SI notation hh:mm:ss YYYY MM DD
Have students close their eyes and time out 10s. ask if they thought it was longer and shorter
Discuss ways to estimate 1s
Brainstorm a list of activities they can do in about 30s - use this for the work sheet tomorrow.

Key Questions

Assessment

Enrichment

Remediation

Implications for Future Lessons

The diagnostic test will decide any remediation before continuing the unit.

Diagnostic Test

Diagnostic Test ajlill Fri, 12/05/2008 - 21:47

Draw a digital clock to show each of the following times:

a) quarter to 4 b) 21 minutes after 8
c) 9 minutes to 1 d) 25 minutes before 4

If you have 45 minutes of homework, when is the latest you can start so that you will be finished in time to watch Heros at 8:00 pm. Show your thinking.








If you started this test at 12:15:05 and finished at 12:19:23,
a) how long did it take you? Show your work.








b) how much time do you have until nutrition break at 12:45:00? Show your work.







Measuring Time

Measuring Time ajlill Sat, 12/06/2008 - 16:05

Specific Expectations

Teach the students how to estimate and measure elapsed time using a stopwatch and the wall clock.

Materials

Stopwatches. Worksheet.

Important Terminology

elapsed time, hours, minutes, seconds.

Background Knowledge

Hook

Lesson Sequence

Talk about seconds - how short they are. Ask when you would want to measure time that accurately.
Have students close their eyes and time out 10s. ask if they thought it was longer and shorter
Brainstorm how to estimate time eg 1 mississippi.
Talk about seconds - how short they are. Ask when you would want to measure time that accurately.
Talk about how to measure time. Show how to use a stopwatch using the smartboard.
Move into how to add and subtract time.

Key Questions

When would you need to measure elapsed time to the second?

Assessment

Enrichment

Remediation

Implications for Future Lessons

These skills will be used in the Water Clock Experiment

Measuring Time Worksheet

Measuring Time Worksheet ajlill Mon, 12/08/2008 - 19:41

Name: _____________________________


Remember: 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours in a day.


How to add and subtract time.


Suppose Rilie studies from 3:48 to 7:05, how would you go about calculating how long he studied?
One way is to do addition. He studies 12 minutes to get to 4:00, plus 3 hours to get to 7:00, plus 5 minutes to get to 7:05, for a total of 3:17. This same method can be extended to include seconds, or even days and years.
The other way is to do subtraction, but there's a catch. You have to be careful when borrowing between different units.

7:05 -> 6:65
-3:48 -3:48
------- -------
3:17

Notice how, when we borrowed from the hour, we only got 60, not 100 as we would have if we were subtracting 348 from 705.


Practice:
4 runners want to recreate the run from Marathon to the Acropolis in Athens. The each leave at 7:45am. Use the runners finish time to calculate the elapsed time

Finish Time Elapsed Time
Runner 1 10:52 ______________________________
Runner 2 10:34 ______________________________
Runner 3 12:14 ______________________________
Runner 4 12:05 ______________________________

Which runner is the fastest?
Which runners took more that 4 hours?

In your groups, try these activities, and come up with some of your own. Each person in the group should try these and have a partner record the start and end times.

Activity Estimate Start time End time Elapsed time
1. Sing Jingle Bells
2 10 Jumping Jacks
3. Walk across the classroom
4. 
5. 
6. 
7. 
8. 

Extend your thinking:
Including washrooms, there are about 7 rooms between us and the office. Calculate how long it would take you to walk to the office.

A Day In the Life

A Day In the Life ajlill Tue, 12/09/2008 - 08:35

Name: __________________________
Record what you do during the next 24 hours on this chart, and calculate the time you spend on each activity. For example, from 3:05 to 3:24 Walk home, 3:24 to 5:00 do homework, ...

Activity Estimate Start time End time Elapsed time
1.
2
3.
4. 
5. 
6. 
7. 
9. 
10. 
11. 
12. 
13. 
14. 

SI Time Units

SI Time Units ajlill Tue, 12/09/2008 - 21:43

Name: ___________________________________

So called Standard Notation puts the the English name of the month first, then the day of the month, followed by a comma, and finally the year, like so:


September 4, 1961


Of course standard notation is only standard in countries with a British heritage. Other countries will use their own language, and sometimes a different order of the day, month, and year. This brought about the need for a Standard International means of writing time, or SI notation. This is the 4 digit year, a space, the 2 digit month, a space, and a 2 digit date, like so:


1961 09 04


Write the following in SI notation

a) March 1, 2004 ___________________ b) February 29, 2000 ___________________
c) June 16, 1921 ___________________ d) November 21, 2112 ___________________
e) July 4, 1776 ___________________ f) April 1, 2009 ___________________

Write the following in Standard notation

a) 1864 03 22 ________________________ b) 1999 12 31 ________________________
c) 2004 05 30 ________________________ d) 1929 10 29 ________________________
e) 1066 10 14 ________________________ f) 1759 09 18 ________________________

How do you know this date is incorrect 1997 26 09? Write in standard notation what date I meant to write.




The Language of time

Express the following as a numeric time

a) twenty to four ________________________ b) quarter to ten ________________________
c) three fourty ________________________ d) five minutes to one ________________________
e) quarter past seven ________________________ f) twelve past six ________________________

The Magnitude of time

a) How many seconds in a minute? ________________________
b) How many minutes in an hour? ________________________
c) How many hours in a day? ________________________
d) How many minutes in 5 hours? ________________________
e) How many seconds in an hour? ________________________
f) How many months in a year? ________________________
g) How many hours in 3 days? ________________________
h) How many days in a year? ________________________
i) How many years in a decade? ________________________
i) How many years in a century? ________________________
i) How many years in a millenium? ________________________

Time Formative Test

Time Formative Test ajlill Thu, 12/11/2008 - 20:50

Name:_______________________________________


Listed below are the start times and durations for various events. Calculate the finishing time of the event.

Start time Duration of the Event Finishing Time
a 7:23 a. m. 1 hour 10 min.
b 11:44 a. m. 32 min.
c 8:34 p. m. 3 hour 42 min.

Complete the following addition problems. Don't forget to regroup to simplify your answers:

 1 h 30 min
+2 h 45 min
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18 min 30 s
+2 min 45 s
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 6 h 5 min
+3 h 42 min
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22 h 49 min
+1 h 11 min
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Shahad had a dentist appointment at 12:15pm. It took 20 min to get to the dentist's office. The dentist saw her right away, and the appointment took 45 min. It then took her 20 min to get back to school.
a) When did Shahad have to leave school? Show your work.






b)When did Shahad return to school? Show your work.





Kung-Fu Panda is 1h 31 min long. What time must we start watching it in order to be finished by 3:05pm? Show your work.





Water Clock Experiment

Water Clock Experiment ajlill Fri, 12/05/2008 - 20:32

Hook

15 min.
Talk about the history of water clocks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_clock
Relate this to how the Greeks used the water clock to limit debate in public life.
Discuss how the Greeks divided the day into 12 hours, so they changed length as the seasons changed.
Show the Tower of the Winds in the Agora. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_the_Winds

Lesson Flow

10 min - Divide the children into groups. Ensure each group has a heterogenous mix of students. Introduce the experiment. List required information to be gathered for the lab report.
30 min - Allow the children to gather data.
5 min - Cleanup.
10 min - Demonstrate how the produce a scatterplot.
30 min - Allow children to do their scatter plot. If they finish early, have them consider the remaining questions on the Experiment sheet.
15 min - Discuss remaining questions as a class.

Teachers Notes:

p = a*h, where a is a constant (density*g) and h is the height of the water column.
Flow = b*p where b is a constant.
So theoretically, they should get a linear graph ending at zero. Realistically, surface tension will mess this up when you get below a couple of cm of water.

Key Questions:

What is a siphon, Why do you need different clocks for different seasons. Why does the sun move north to south.

Water Clock Experiment Recording Sheet

Water Clock Experiment Recording Sheet ajlill Sun, 12/07/2008 - 14:57

Name: __________________________________

Purpose

To investigate the relationship between the height of water in a container and how fast if flows out.

Material

  1. Prepared Water bottle with hole
  2. Graduated cylinder
  3. Ruler
  4. Stopwatch or Wall clock with second hand

Instructions

Repeat the following steps with the bottle starting with different water levels in the bottle. For example, nearly full, half full, and nearly empty. Collect additional data for other water levels as time permits. The more data the better.

  1. Place your finger over the hole in the bottom of the bottle and pour water in it.
  2. Keeping your finger over the hole, set the bottle on the edge of a level surface and measure the height of the water from the bottom on the bottle. Record this data.
  3. Place the graduated cylinder on a level surface so that it will collect the water that runs out of the hole in the bottle and you can see when the water reaches the 100ml mark. Make sure the cylinder is empty before you start.
  4. Hold the bottle upright over the cylinder.
  5. If you are using a stopwatch, start it when you take your finger off the hole, and stop it when the water reaches the 100ml line in the cylinder. Record this as the elapsed time. You do not have to fill in the start and stop time.
  6. If you are using a wall clock, record the time when you take your finger off of the hole, as well as the time when the water reaches the 100ml line in the cylinder, then calculate the elapsed time.

Ruberic (Formative)

Level 4: with thorough detail and accuracy completes the experiment report
Level 3: with considerable detail and accuracy completes the experiment report
Level 2: with some detail and accuracy completes the experiment report
Level 1: with little detail and accuracy completes the experiment report

Observations

Trial Water Level Start time End time Elapsed time
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3
4
5
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9

Analysis

Create a scatter plot of water height versus time for 100ml to flow out of the bottle. What can you conclude from this experiment (Hint: Look a the purpose).





Application

What does this relationship mean for a simple water clock?





How would you change the design of a water clock to account for this relationship?





Water Clock Experiment Wrap-up

Water Clock Experiment Wrap-up ajlill Wed, 12/10/2008 - 21:26

Basic Waterclock Picture.gif This is the basic clepsydra (literally "water thief"). This device can be traced back to nearly 2000 BCE in ancient Egypt. This type of clepsydra was often used to time speakers during debates and trials.

Ctesibius, a Greek inventor and mathematician in Alexandria, Ptolemaic Egypt developed many improvements on the water clock. His clepsydra kept more accurate time than any clock invented until the Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens detailed the use of a pendulum to regulate a clock in the 17th century.

Clepsydra-Diagram-Fancy-Schematic.gifOne of the problems faced by Ctesibius was the one we investigated in our experiment. That is, as the water level in the upper container, (reservoir) goes down, the flow of water slowed down. This problem was solved by having water flow into the reservoir faster thannit was used by the clock, and have an outflow tube to take the extra water away.

Another problem facing clock builders is how the Ancient Greeks counted time. Unlike us, the Greeks divided the time between sunrise and sunset into 12 daytime hours, and the time between sunset and sunrise into 12 nighttime hours. As we are sadly aware, the time between sunrise and sunset is much shorter during the winter than the summer. Ctesibius solved this problem by marking the hours with curved lines on a drum. He then added a mechanism that reset the hour pointer every day and turned the drum so the lines matched the season.

Tower of Winds - 1967.jpgThis is a picture of what the Tower of the Winds in the agora would have looked like. It was 12 m tall and about 8 m in diameter. It was supposedly built by Andronicus of Cyrrhus around 50 BC, but according to other sources might have been constructed in the 2nd century BC before the rest of the forum. It was topped in antiquity by a weathervane-like Triton that indicated the wind direction.

Triton was the son of Poseidon and the Amphitrite, goddess of the sea. He was the messenger of the deep and carried a conch shell with which he could raise or quiet the waves.

Around the top is a frieze depicting the eight wind deities — Boreas (N), Kaikias (NE), Eurus (E), Apeliotes (SE), Notus (S), Livas (SW), Zephyrus (W), and Skiron (NW). Below them were eight sundials. You can see the lines marking the hours below the frieze. Inside, there was a clepsydra, driven by water coming down from the Acropolis.

24 Hour Clock

24 Hour Clock ajlill Tue, 12/09/2008 - 20:16

Materials

Computer Lab,
Learn Alberta

Lesson Sequence

Demonstrate to the Students how to get to the 24 hour clock lesson on the Learn Alberta website. Take them to the computer lab and have them go through the exercise online.

Remediation

The website also has other lessons applicable to this unit. If time permits, have the students go through those lessons for extra practice.

Time Resources

Time Resources ajlill Tue, 12/09/2008 - 21:14