A cloze story about a Year 4 trip to the Wild Woods Nature Reserve, with every blank a unit conversion. Pupils turn the 2-kilometre walking trail into 2,000 metres, twelve months into a year, and so on through 12 blanks woven into the recount. The answer key lists all 12. Practises two England National Curriculum measurement objectives on converting units, including time conversions.
Measurement
“Convert between different units of measure [for example, kilometre to metre; hour to minute]”
The distance and measure blanks practise this directly.
Measurement
“Solve problems involving converting from hours to minutes; minutes to seconds; years to months; weeks to days.”
The time blanks in the story cover these conversions.
A recount of the school trip with 12 conversion blanks built into the story.
Kilometres to metres, years to months, hours to minutes and more.
All 12 answers listed in order.
Starter
Read the story together and fill the blanks as a warm-up.
Homework
A short, self-marking task with the key attached.
Early finishers
Standalone enough to hand out without explanation.
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