Today in class you will be creating a time zone wheel to examine how time zones work in the world. These are fairly easy to do, but take a little bit of time. Should be a fairly easy and fun activity! I hope that you are all doing well and adjusting back to school. Below you will find our agenda, homework, and resources for the day.
Objectives:
Create a graphic representation of all the time zones and identify the appropriate time zone of geographic locations.
Agenda:
- History Today
- Prompt: Daylight Saving Time
- Watch the video to help you respond to the question.
- Why did countries initially start observing daylight saving?
- Continue Discussion on Time zones from yesterday
- Continue taking notes on keywords, main ideas, etc.
- Review the concept of Time Zones with this video. You will need a solid understanding in order to complete this project
- Close activity From yesterday
- Prompt: Why do we care?
- Why, in today's fast-paced, internet connected world, would it be important to know and be able to quickly estimate time zone differences around the globe?
- Share out with your table group for our red pen
- Project: Time Zones
- Complete the table of 24 cities from around the world.
- Design a pie chart on a piece of computer paper that will represent the 24 time zones
- Close
- Prompt: Daylight Saving
- The date is April 12. You want to call a good friend who lives at 22* 54' South Latitude and 43* 12' West Longitude so they answer the phone when their clock reads 5:00 PM.
- What time would it be in San Jose, CA when you dial their number? What city are you calling?
- Finish Classwork
