Zach and Kayla have run out of credit, and must collect diamonds to keep building their virtual city. But they don鈥檛 have much time, as they want to enter Neon City into an imminent virtual city competition!
They can earn diamonds by answering questions correctly. Ada asks the questions, which all require them to convert from one time measurement unit to another.
The first question requires them to convert five days into hours. They use a bar model to help them. The next question involves converting minutes to seconds, and the next converting weeks to days.
This short animated film is from the 91热爆 Teach series, Neon City: Measurement and Geometry.
Teacher notes
Before watching
Download/print an A4 activity sheet for this episode (PDF, 91KB). See link below for answers.
You might want to check children鈥檚 prior learning around units of time, with questions such as:
- How many months are there in a year?
- How many days in a week?
- How many weeks in a year?
- How many hours/minutes/seconds in a day?
During the film
You may want to pause the film while the children are answering each question, to allow your pupils to work the answers out themselves, or to ensure understanding of the bar model and how it represents the question.
After watching
You could give the children opportunities to practise their fluency with converting between different units, for example by completing a table with a number of conversions, such as:
Hours | Minutes | Seconds |
---|---|---|
1 | 60 | 60 x 60 = |
7200 | ||
300 |
You could then give them some reasoning and problem solving questions based on the type tackled in this episode, such as; Kayla finished the race in 4 minutes 20 seconds and Zach finished it in 245 seconds. Which child finished the race first?
You could ask your pupils to come up with some similar problems for a partner to solve.
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Curriculum notes
This short film is suitable for teaching maths at KS2 in England and Northern Ireland, 2nd Level in Scotland and Progression steps 2 and 3 in Wales.
More from Neon City: Measurement and Geometry
Measuring area. video
Ada introduces Zach and Kayla to the concept of area, and different ways to measure and calculate the area of rectangles, triangles and composite shapes.
Perimeter. video
Zach and Kayla are creating windows for their virtual house design and Ada explains how they can work out the perimeter for the windows they want.
Volume. video
Kayla and Zach decide to build a swimming pool for their virtual city and Ada explains how to calculate the volume and capacity of a cuboid shape.
Metric and imperial measurements. video
Kayla and Zach decide to build a new hovertrain system from the city to the beach, but they get confused between kilometres and miles. Ada explains how to calculate betwen the two measurement systems, metric and imperial.
Measuring angles - Part 1. video
Kayla and Zach are designing ramps for the skatepark and Ada explains that designing ramps requires us to measure angles 鈥 the amount of turn between two lines.
Measuring angles - Part 2. video
Whilst adding ramps to their virtual skatepark, Zach and Kayla progress from measuring angles to calculating angles on a straight line and full turn.
Missing lengths and angles. video
A computer virus has corrupted the Neon City software. Zach and Kayla must answer four questions within three minutes, or their city will be erased.
Regular and irregular polygons. video
Zach鈥檚 design for a pond in the virtual city park leads to Ada explaining the properties of regular and irregular polygons.
Coordinates on a grid. video
Kayla and Zach are designing a fairground and need to plot where to place the different rides, so Ada teaches them about the x-axis and y-axis on a coordinate grid.