Explore how GMT helps us compare time zones around the world with our Year 5 and Year 6 Using GMT to Compare Time Zones Around the World PPT. Children will discover how Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) provides a reference for calculating local times, practise comparing times in different countries and investigate how time zones affect travel, navigation and everyday life.

The resource includes engaging teaching slides, discussion questions to encourage deeper thinking, interactive tasks and assessment questions to check understanding throughout the lesson.

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National Curriculum Objectives:

• Identify the position and significance of latitude, longitude, Equator, Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, Arctic and Antarctic Circle, the Prime/Greenwich Meridian and time zones (including day and night)

• Use maps, atlases, globes and digital/computer mapping to locate countries and describe features studied