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Time

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Key Stage 1

Meaning

Time is how long something takes to happen. To time is to use a stopwatch to find out how long something takes.

Verb: Time
Singular Noun: Time
Plural Noun: Times

About Time

Time can be measured in seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years.

Examples

It takes 5 minutes to boil an egg.
It takes 2 hours to drive from Birmingham to London.
It takes 28 days for The Moon to go around the Earth.

Used in a Sentence

A scientist decided to time how long it takes to boil an egg.
A scientist drove to London from Birmingham and it took a time of 2 hours.
A scientist noticed the full moon and predicted the next full moon would be in 28 days time.

Key Stage 2

Meaning

Time is a measure of how long something takes from the start to the end of something happening.

About Time

Time can be measured in seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years.
Time can be measured using a clock or a stopwatch.

Key Stage 3

Meaning

Time is a measure of how long something takes to happen.

About Time

Time can be measured in:

Time can be measured using a clock or a stopwatch.

Key Stage 4

Meaning

Time is a measure of the duration of an event.

About Time

Time can be measured in:

Time can be measured using a clock or a stopwatch.

References

AQA

Time (measuring), page 233, GCSE Combined Science Trilogy; Physics, CGP, AQA
Time (measuring), page 233, GCSE Combined Science; The Revision Guide, CGP, AQA
Time (measuring), page 329, GCSE Physics; The Complete 9-1 Course for AQA, CGP, AQA

OCR

Time, graphs, page 304, Gateway GCSE Chemistry, Oxford, OCR
Time, measurement, pages 48, Gateway GCSE Physics, Oxford, OCR

Beyond the Curriculum