Time and duration: Year 8 – planning tool

This planning resource for Year 8 is for the topic of Time and duration. Students should be familiar with the concept of time as a measurement that determines how long it takes to get somewhere or how long it takes to complete something. They should also be familiar with the vocabulary seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 8
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Planning support, Teaching resource, Teaching strategies, Student task, Home practice tasks
Format	Web page
Keywords	lesson plans, assessment task, teaching strategies, pedagogies, Australian Curriculum, learning from home, misconceptions
Curriculum alignment
Strand and focus	Measurement
Topics	Time
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M8M04 Solve problems involving duration, including using 12- and 24-hour time across multiple time zones
Numeracy progression	Measuring time (P5)
Copyright details
Organisation	Commonwealth of Australia
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