Challenge your students’ thinking and build their time measurement skills with the fun and creative Create a Duration Maze: Time Worksheets! This hands-on activity helps students deepen their understanding of time units and duration while encouraging critical thinking and problem-solving.

Each worksheet invites students to create their own maze by adding pairs of matching time durations to form a path through the maze. Once their maze is complete, students fill the remaining spaces with random time durations to increase the challenge. They can then swap their maze with a partner to solve, promoting collaboration and rich discussion about time concepts.

Create a Duration Maze: Time Worksheets includes three different versions, each focusing on slightly different units of time. You can select versions based on your current curriculum focus or student readiness and interests. An example is provided on each page to support student understanding of the task. Simply print the required versions and watch your students get creative with time!

Key Learning Outcomes:

• ✅ Practise adding and matching time durations
• ✅ Develop fluency with unit conversion for time
• ✅ Strengthen reasoning and problem-solving skills
• ✅ Build collaboration and communication through partner challenges
• ✅ Apply creative thinking while exploring time concepts

What’s Included:

• Three versions of Create a Duration Maze worksheets:
• - Each version focuses on different units of time
• - Example provided on each worksheet to guide students
• Instructions for flexible classroom use

Materials Needed:

• Printed worksheets (select the appropriate version for each student)
• Pencils or pens
• Optional: coloured pencils or markers for highlighting the correct path through the maze

How to Use:

1. Print the worksheet versions that best suit your students’ needs and current focus.
2. Introduce or review key strategies for adding, matching, and converting time units.
3. Have students create their maze by filling in pairs of matching time durations to form a path, then filling the remaining spaces with random durations.
4. Encourage students to swap their maze with a partner and challenge them to find the correct path.
5. Review answers and encourage discussion about the strategies used.

Ideas for Classroom Use:

• 💡 Include in maths rotations as a targeted time and duration activity
• 💡 Use as an independent task to reinforce unit conversion and time addition skills
• 💡 Provide for small group work to encourage collaboration and discussion
• 💡 Support EAL learners with scaffolded examples and guided practise before independent work
• 💡 Use as a fun end-of-unit activity to consolidate learning about time

Top Teacher Tips:

• 💛 Model how to complete the maze and create pairs of matching durations before independent work
• 💛 Encourage students to vary the random durations they use to increase the challenge
• 💛 Provide opportunities for students to explain their thinking and problem-solving strategies
• 💛 Differentiate by selecting worksheet versions that match student readiness and the time units currently being taught

Create a Duration Maze: Time Worksheets is a fun and flexible way to build your students’ fluency and confidence with time measurement and unit conversion. With its creative and collaborative format, it’s a valuable addition to your time and measurement teaching resources!