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Here are 14 fun and educational “Time Comparison” examples to help kids develop a sense of duration, speed, and relative time using real-world and imaginative scenarios.
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| Question1: Which takes longer? Brushing your teeth: 2 minutes Boiling an egg: 7 minutes | Question2: Which is faster? Snap your fingers: 0.5 second Blink your eyes: 0.3 seconds |
| Question3: Which is longer? Commercial break: 3 minutes One episode of a cartoon: 23 minutes | Question4: Which is faster? Running 100 meters (Usain Bolt): 10 seconds Microwave popcorn: 2 minutes |
| Question5: Which gives you more free time? 1 school day: 6 hours 1 weekend day at home: 12–14 waking hours | Question6: Which takes longer? A sneeze: 1 second Singing the ABC song: 30 seconds |
| Question7: Which takes longer? Earth orbiting the Sun: 1 year Moon orbiting Earth: 28 days | Question8: Which takes longer? Reading one page of a book: 2 minutes Watching a short video clip: 1 minute |
| Question9: Which takes longer? Boiling pasta: 10 minutes Charging a phone fully: 90 minutes | Question10: Which is faster? A cheetah sprint: 20 seconds A turtle walking 10 meters: 10 minutes |
| Question11: Which takes longer? Reading a picture book: 10 minutes Reading a chapter book: 1–2 hours | Question12: Which is shorter? One heartbeat: 1 second A minute of silence: 60 seconds |
| Question13: Which one takes more time? Time to eat lunch: 20 minutes Time to take a math test: 45–60 minutes | Question14: Which comes first—lightning or thunder? Blink of an eye: 0.3 seconds Time it takes for lightning to be seen: Instant Time it takes for thunder to be heard after lightning: 3–10 seconds |
Answers
| 1. Boiling an egg takes 5 minutes longer. | 2. A blink is faster than a finger snap! |
| 3. The cartoon is much longer. | 4. Usain Bolt’s sprint is way faster. |
| 5. A weekend day! | 6. Singing the ABCs. |
| 7. Earth going around the Sun takes much longer. | 8. Reading the page. |
| 9. Charging the phone. | 10. Cheetah, of course! |
| 11. The chapter book. | 12. One heartbeat. |
| 13. The math test. | 14. Lightning always comes first. |