Grade 3 - Shape and Space
Standard 3.SS.1 - Find the elapsed time based on a word problem.
Included Skills: Time
Demonstrate understanding of the passage of time including: • relating common activities to standard and non-standard units • describing relationships between units • solving situational questions. • Observe and describe activities relevant to self, family, and community that would involve the measurement of time. • Explore the meaning and use of time-keeping language from different cultures, including First Nations and Métis. • Select and use a personally relevant non-standard unit of measure for the passage of time (such as television shows, a pendulum swing, sunrise, sundown, moon cycles, and hunger patterns) and explain the choice. • Suggest and sort activities into those that can or cannot be accomplished in a minute, hour, day, month, or year. • Select and justify personal referents for minutes and hours. • Create and solve situational questions using the relationship between the number of minutes in an hour, days in a particular month, days in a week, hours in a day, weeks in a year, or months in a year (e.g., "A student was on holiday for 10 days. Is that more or less than one week long?"). • Identify the day of the week, the month, and the year for an indicated date on a calendar. • Identify today's date, and then explain how to determine yesterday's and tomorrow's date. • Locate a stated or written date (day, month, and year) on a calendar and explain the strategy used. • Identify errors in the ordering of the days of the week and the months of the year. • Create a calendar using the days of the week, the calendar dates, and personally relevant events. • Describe ways in which the measurement of time is cyclical.