It's About Time

them divide the paper into three or four panels. Beginning with your own time zone, have students pick a time to illustrate - perhaps noon when they are eating lunch, or their bedtime. Have them illustrate that time in the first panel. Then pick two or three other time zones around the world. Find a country in each and have students figure out what time equates with their first chosen time in each of those places. Then have them illustrate what a child might be doing in THAT location while they are doing what they illustrated in their own time zone.

Learn more about time zones at these sites:

World Time Scales gives some history about world time zones and why they were established.

The Official U.S. Time - just like the name says - find out the official time in the U.S. at this site. Just be aware this one takes a few moments to load.

Do you want to know the time in Syndey, Australia? Time Zone Converter allows students to convert the time from one time zone to another.

For more ideas about time, including Daylight Saving Time, some interesting ways to measure time, and a few good books about time, see Part 2 of this article.

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