Introduce a minute as a length of time

Click here to count to 100 with Jack.

Click here to see how long a minute is on the clock.

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Activities

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Red Group: Create an obstacle course in your house or garden. Time how long it takes yourself and other people in your house using a stopwatch on a phone or on google. Record times in minutes and seconds e.g. 5 minutes 27 seconds. Order everyone’s times from the shortest to the longest. Who won? Did the fastest person have the shortest or longest time?

Blue Group: Create an obstacle course in your house or garden. Time how long it takes yourself and other people in your house using a stopwatch on a phone or on google. Record times in minutes and seconds e.g. 5 minutes 27 seconds. Order everyone’s times from the shortest to the longest

Yellow Group: Create an obstacle course in your house or garden. Time how long it takes yourself and other people in your house using a stopwatch on a phone or on google. Record times in minutes and seconds e.g. 5 minutes 27 seconds. Who was the fastest? Who was the slowest?

Orange Group: Use a timer on your phone, google, an egg timer or a sand timer to time a minute. How many times can you do something in a minute? You could write your name, do star jumps, or run from one end of the room to the other. What else could you do in a minute?

Green Group: Use a timer on your phone, google, an egg timer or a sand timer to time a minute. How many times can you do something in a minute? You could write your name, do star jumps, or run from one end of the room to the other. Is a minute a long or short amount of time?