Sunday, November 1, 2009

Daylight Saving Time Explained

Last night most of us in the US turned our clocks back by one hour. Why did we do this? The CBS Fast Draw team explains why in the video below.


Applications for Education
This video provides a succinct explanation of the rationale for Daylight Saving Time. If you don't plan to show the video to your students, it's still worth watching as a refresher for yourself.

1 comments:

Michael Gambill said...

It should be noted that there is no real savings to Daylight Saving Time. By manipulating the clock citizens are simply tricked into doing everything an hour earlier. We could accomplish the same thing by simply arising an hour earlier, starting and ending work an hour earlier, and going to bed a hour earlier. The same amount of daylight remains the same, it is how we use it.