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Hours, Seconds & Minutes - Estimating Time Sort

  • Updated

    Updated:  10 Feb 2024

Estimate activities that take about a second, minute, hour, and week with a printable units of time sorting activity.

  • Editable

    Editable:  Google Slides

  • Non-Editable

    Non-Editable:  PDF

  • Pages

    Pages:  15 Pages

  • Curriculum
  • Years

    Years:  P - 2

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teaching resource

Hours, Seconds & Minutes - Estimating Time Sort

  • Updated

    Updated:  10 Feb 2024

Estimate activities that take about a second, minute, hour, and week with a printable units of time sorting activity.

  • Editable

    Editable:  Google Slides

  • Non-Editable

    Non-Editable:  PDF

  • Pages

    Pages:  15 Pages

  • Curriculum
  • Years

    Years:  P - 2

Estimate activities that take about a second, minute, hour, and week with a printable units of time sorting activity.

About How Long Does it Take? Second, Minute & Hour

Are you struggling to teach your students the concept of time? Do they need help understanding what you mean when you tell them recess is in a minute, an hour, or two hours? If so, you’re in the right place!

The Teach Starter team has been hard at work creating resources to make learning about duration and estimation a breeze. Engage your students in fun and interactive activities to help them understand more about time and how long to estimate the duration of it.

Estimate the Time It Takes To Complete an Activity

Time-keeping has never been this exciting as students work to estimate the duration of different activities and categorise those activities based on how long they take to complete. 

In this hands-on maths activity, students will sort 24 illustrated activity cards into the following categories:

  • Activities that Take About a Second to Complete
  • Activities that Take About a Minute to Complete
  • Activities that Take About 5 Minutes to Complete
  • Activities that Take About an Hour to Complete
  • Activities that Take About a Half-Hour to Complete
  • Activities that Take About a Week to Complete

This Duration of Time Activity builds students’ estimation skills and fosters a sense of time awareness, a skill essential for success in both academic and everyday life.

Download Your Estimating Time Activity

Use the dropdown icon on the Download button to choose between the editable Google Slides resource file or the quick-print PDF version. We have also included colour and black/white options as well.


This resource was created by Lisamarie Del Valle, a Teach Starter Collaborator.


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