Explore why the Earth needs time zones with our Year 5 and Year 6 Why Does the Earth Need Time Zones? PPT. Children will discover how the Earth’s rotation creates day and night, investigate why different places experience different times and explore how time zones help people organise activities around the world.

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