What makes Pi Day even more fun? Daylight Saving Time!  Why not check your students’ understanding of this strange, coordinated leap forward. What changes and what stays the same? Why is there so much fuss?

Tell your class that a friend of yours lives next to a farm. Every spring and fall, the farmer gets grumpy complaining that their crops need every hour of sunlight they can get. The farmer says it isn’t right for people to give and take hours of sunshine. They want to keep things the way they were before Daylight Saving Time. What would your students say to that?

Here are some resources for your class to help kids make sense of Daylight Saving Time.

Well? What do your students think? Did your friend’s neighbor’s crops lose an hour of sunlight? More to the point, did your students miss out on an hour of pie eating activities? Would they keep the system the way it is? Would they make changes?

Or would they rather celebrate Pi Day?

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