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DESCRIPTION
Classroom Innovation Activity:
Students go on a scavenger hunt to find examples of different kinds of time.
History Lab Exhibit:
The Timeline of Timepieces
TOPIC AREAS
Geologic Time
Biological Time
Seasons
Life cycle
Generations
Mechanical/Physical Time
Clocks and Calendars
Historical Periods
MATERIALS NEEDED
- Magazines, newspapers, books
- Internet access
- Scavenger Hunt list
IMPLEMENTATION
- Divide students into teams of two.
TIME: 5-10 minutes
- Give each team a scavenger hunt list (at lower right).
TIME: 5 minutes
- Students find examples of each kind of timepiece (students can copy pictures from books and magazines, print images from Internet sources such as the History Lab Artifact Finder database and other websites, or they can make their own drawings).
TIME: 1-2 hours or overnight
- Each student team creates a "Timeline of Timepieces" collage depicting all of the different kinds of time and corresponding timekeeping devices.
TIME: 1 hour
- Teams present their collage of findings to class—what they found, where, and why each example is a good representative of a particular kind of time.
TIME: 1.5 hours
REFERENCES
BOOKS
Mapping Time: The Calendar and its History. E.G. Richards. Oxford University Press, 1998.
History Lab Outreach Kit
WEBSITE
www.historylab.org
SCAVENGER HUNT LIST
- wrist watch
- 24-hour clock face
- hour glass
- shadow clock
- solar calendar
- seasons
- lunar calendar
- French Republican clock
- water clock
- 12-hour clock face
- pendulum clock
- digital clock
- calendar from an ancient culture
- strata layers
- generations
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