Event Ordering

This applied time zone worksheet supports students in Grades 6, 7, and 8 as they practice converting local times from cities around the world into Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and ordering events chronologically. Students strengthen math skills, geographic reasoning, and reading comprehension as they analyze six real-world event descriptions, calculate time offsets, and sequence events accurately to understand how global synchronization works in travel, communication, and science.

Learning Goals

• Global Time Differences (Grades 6-8) – Convert local times to UTC using time zone offsets
• Mathematical Reasoning – Apply addition and subtraction to calculate time conversions accurately
• Chronological Ordering – Arrange events correctly based on standardized time
• Geographic Understanding – Explain how Earth’s rotation creates different local times

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource – Designed by educators to align with geography, math, science, and ELA standards
• Real-World Application – Uses authentic global events to reinforce relevance
• Step-by-Step Structure – Guides students from conversion to sequencing
• Flexible Use – Ideal for geography units, math integration, enrichment, or assessment practice

This time zone ordering worksheet helps students build practical skills for understanding global coordination. By converting times to UTC and sequencing events, learners gain clearer insight into how standardized time supports international travel, communication, and scientific collaboration. It’s a no-prep resource for both classroom and homeschool settings that supports mathematical accuracy, geographic literacy, and real-world problem solving.

This worksheet is part of our Time Zones and Their Basis collection.