Mathematics / Year 1 / Measurement

Curriculum content descriptions

describe the duration and sequence of events using years, months, weeks, days and hours (AC9M1M03)

Elaborations
  • naming, listing and using familiar units of time, such as hours, days, weeks, years
  • comparing the number of days in the months of the year and explaining how the months cycle from one year to the next
  • sequencing familiar events including the representation of time with pictorial timelines
  • discussing events and activities and deciding whether they would take closer to an hour, a day, a week, a month or a year; for example, it takes a day for the sun to rise and fall and rise again, but it takes less than an hour for me to walk to school
  • investigating durations of time represented in First Nations Australians’ seasonal calendars
General capabilities
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and Creative Thinking
  • Numeracy Numeracy
ScOT terms

Elapsed time,  Time units

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