Time Zones

 Have you ever travelled to a different country and had to change the time on your phone or watch?

If you have, that means you have entered a different timeline. There are 24 time zones as it takes  24 hours for the Earth to rotate once on its axis.Thus, we have a day. The lines of longitude (timezones) start at Greenwich (Prime Meridian)  which is why we have GMT. Any countries east of the Prime Meridian are in front of the UK. Any countries to the west, their time is behind the UK. Because of the time zones, every country has midday at 12pm. 

During the lesson the children used an interactive time zone map to find the time differences. They then consolidated their leaning using live webcams to see the difference and similarities to the UK in different parts of the world.






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