1. Prepare a large chart for the classroom showing the various ways in which a year is divided.

one year = one year

12 months = one year

52 weeks = one year

365 1/4 days = one year

8,760 hours = one year

525,600 minutes = one year

31,536,000 seconds = one year

2. Help children keep a record on one year in their lives. Make a booklet entitled "The Year of in the Life of James Johnson."

3. Prepare a birthday book in which children can keep a record of "years" from one birthday to the next.

4. A year can be calculated from any beginning point such as January 1 or June 29. It ends on the same date in the following year. Cut a strip of paper twelve inches long and one inch wide. Mark off twelve spaces. Write the names of the twelve months on the spaces. Lay the ends together so that they touch but do not overlap and then tape them. Place an object such as a small representation of an animal or person next to the ring. Move the object around the circle. Place the object in another position and again move it around the ring. Discuss the experience with the class. Help them realize that the distance in time remains the same regardless of the starting point.

5. Let children draw illustrations of their conceptions of a year. Have them talk about their illustrations.

6. Identify tasks which people are asked to complete in a year. (Attend school and have vacations at given intervals, complete a job in a given setting, do an experiment, or spend time in a particular location) Talk about what the term "year" might mean to people involved.

7. Make time lines representing one year. Write events on the time lines.

8. Read books about a year. (Example: Stanford Mirkin's What Happened When.)