Year 4: Full Lesson Plans - Manual / Resource - Page 24
Y4 Maths Lesson Plan: Dedicated Dogs
Timing
Teaching Activity
Children vs dogs!
Tell the children that Guinness World Records have
found that dogs are capable of incredible feats! But are
dogs faster than humans? Explain that the pupils are
going to try to complete some dog records to see how
they compare to these incredible pups.
Give each pair of children a skipping rope and a ball. Each
child needs their Let’s Challenge the Dogs! Activity
Sheet, clipboard and pen.
20 mins
Ask children to work in pairs to see how long it takes
them to complete each activity. Ideally, this means each
child tries two of the activities, while the other times
them, and they both fill out the timings from all four
activities on their individual sheets. Every child should fill
in a sheet, as they will use this later to work out their
conversions.
As a class, find out who completed each of the earlier
activities the fastest and discuss which of the challenges
was the quickest and easiest to achieve.
Teacher Notes
You may need to take
children outdoors onto
the playground to
complete the activities
or use a hall space. This
depends on the space
and layout you have in
your classroom.
Depending on your
cohort, you might like to
utilise mixed-ability pairs
or same-ability pairs.
Pupils who can’t skip can
place the rope on the
ground and jump over it,
side-to-side 91 times.
Following this, ask the children to discuss in pairs what
they were most surprised by and what they found the
most challenging.
Converting minutes to seconds
Explain to the class that now they have their recordings,
it’s time to convert the times from minutes to seconds.
Explain what converting means and discuss the
conversions from minutes to seconds using slide 15.
15 mins
Use the following slide to practise converting a time
together to demonstrate the technique for converting
the units of measure. The world record for most tricks in
a minute for a dog is 32. How long will it take the teacher
to do 32 star jumps? Record the answer in minutes and
seconds, then ask the class, how can we convert this to a
total number of seconds? Demonstrate your working out
for pupils to follow.
Ask children to use this method to convert their
measurements from minutes and seconds into seconds,
on their sheets.
© 2024 Guinness World Records Limited
Clearly model the
conversion, breaking
down the method of
adding 60 for each
minute, then adding any
remainder seconds to
achieve a total.
You might prefer to
bring a willing
participant to the front
to do the star jumps, but
you’ll want it to take
more than one minute –
if you do them, you can
string it out!
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