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Year 6

Time zones: can we time travel on planet Earth?

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  • Earth geometry

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This unit explores the relationship between the Earth's rotation, day and night, and time zones. Pupils learn how longitude affects time, investigate the International Date Line, and consider what happens when we travel across the globe.

This unit develops pupils’ understanding of the Earth as a connected system by exploring how time is linked to place. Its placement introduces global concepts of longitude, rotation and time zones, deepening spatial thinking and building on earlier work in map skills, continents and climate. Pupils also begin to consider how geography influences human activity, such as travel and communication, preparing them for more complex global systems studied later in the year.

  1. Day and night
  2. Longitude and time zones
  3. The International Date Line and time
  4. Travel and time
  5. Using digital maps to plan a trip to a different time zone

  • Knowledge of how day and night are created by the rotation of the globe in relation to the sun, and that different time zones exist.
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