Time Travellers
Zoom through history and travel across time zones to uncover the stories of time.
Key Learning Objectives
Time Travellers provides an engaging opportunity for students to explore the concept of time across cultures, history, and the modern world. Through collaborative challenges, students investigate how humans have measured time throughout history, compare global time zones, and reflect on how time shapes daily life and human connection. Working together with international partners, students develop critical thinking, communication, and teamwork skills while creating shared timelines, collaborative maps, and imaginative reflections about the future of timekeeping. The project encourages curiosity, creativity, and global understanding as students journey through the past, present, and future of time.
Understanding Time
Students will explore the concept of time and reflect on why time matters in everyday life, society, and human understanding.
Measuring Time
Students will investigate how humans have measured time throughout history, from natural methods and ancient inventions to modern digital systems.
Time Zones
Students will collaborate with international partners to explore UTC, time zones, and how one shared moment can be experienced differently around the world.
Students will work together to create a shared ‘story of time’ timeline and create a ‘one shared moment’ map of the world.
Students will imagine future possibilities for measuring time and reflect on how human systems and agreements shape our understanding of the world.
Collaboration
Creative Thinking
Subjects
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Students explore the history of timekeeping, ancient civilizations, global systems, and how societies have understood and organised time across history.
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Students investigate natural cycles, inventions, mechanical clocks, digital systems, satellites, and modern methods used to measure and coordinate time.
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Students develop understanding of global time zones, UTC, maps, and how time differs across regions and countries around the world.
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Students apply mathematical thinking through timelines, sequencing, elapsed time, UTC calculations, and interpreting time differences across locations.
Project Outcome
Students will collaborate with international partners to investigate how humans understand, measure, and organise time. Throughout the project, they will explore historical and modern methods of timekeeping, contribute to a collaborative global timeline, and work together to calculate and compare time zones around the world. As a final outcome, students will create shared reflections, maps, and presentations that demonstrate their understanding of time across cultures, history, and future possibilities, while developing communication, critical thinking, and global collaboration skills.
