Curated OER
Mapping the Border
Students create maps of the borderland region. They decorate their maps with colors, pictures, icons, scenes, words that reflect their understanding of the character and history of the borderland.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Elapsed Time
In this lesson students will understand the concept of elapsed time and be able to calculate elapsed time given the starting and ending time.
Other
Nearpod: Elapsed Time
For this lesson on elapsed time, 3rd graders will explore real-world situations while learning to calculate elapsed time using different methods and modeling.
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Better Lesson: Elapsed Time What Time Will I Get Home?
Applying the measurement of elapsed time to a person's daily schedule helps students understand the reason for understanding time.
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Better Lesson: Elapsed Time Using Train Schedules
This lesson connects calculating elapsed time in a real world setting, using actual train schedules.
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Better Lesson: Elapsed Time Flip Books
Measuring time can be challenging for students because it isn't concrete. Using a number line helps students to understand time as a quantity.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Elapsed Time Two
Students practice finding the ending time given the starting time and an elapsed time.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Calculating Elapsed Time With Time Rulers
Students will explore their prior knowledge of time, discuss fractional parts of an hour, and use a specialized time ruler to calculate elapsed time for real life situations.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: My Time!
A lesson designed to review telling time, record keeping, and calculating elapsed time.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: It All Adds Up With Time
The students are working on the concept of adding and subtracting time along with developing their own strategies to figure out elapsed time.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Max's Math Adventures: The Snowball
Join Max and Ruthie on a snow day math adventure and see how many things can happen in just one day. Teachers will like this lesson's approach to experiencing and telling time. Use the teacher's guide, activity sheet, and extra...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Student Analysis: Determine the Acceleration of a Toy Car
For this activity, students measure the displacement and elapsed time of a moving toy car using a direct measurement video with an embedded frame counter. They then calculate average and final velocity, and the average acceleration, and...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Let's Calculate Flight!
Students will use stop watches to help understand elapsed time when they fly paper airplanes through the air. Students will then move on to using clocks. Students will work out elapsed time word problems using made up flight schedules.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Elves Go on Strike!
Students will use their knowledge of elapsed time to determine if certain elves should receive a bonus. They will work cooperatively with groups to calculate elapsed time and present and justify their findings to their classmates.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Cows on the Clock
In this lesson learners will calculate elapsed time using the storybook Click, Clack Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin. Students will identify the time pasted between two given times in a.m. and p.m.
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Better Lesson: Clock Facts
Learners calculate elapsed time using analog clocks. Included in this lesson are a detailed plan, clock template, and video of students making their clocks.
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Better Lesson: 3rd Day of School
Sixth graders extend and identify the patterns of decreasing time and be able to understand relationships among units and convert from one unit to another unit within the same system.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Experiment Problem in Kinematics: How Much Does It Take to Win the Race?
Students are presented with two cars that have different constant speeds and that will race each other. They then determine which object will win the race, as well as how much time elapses between the objects crossing the finish line.