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Teaching Students to Tell Time: Three Resources for Busy Teachers
Elementary schoolers develop time-telling skills, one skill at a time. They examine the connection between time on digital and analog (clock-face) clocks. An excellent lesson on teaching how to tell time!
Time for Time
Telling Time: Telling Time: Half Hours
The whole class discusses the differences between the two clocks: digital and a clock with hands. They discuss the differences between the hour hand and minute hand. Students are taught telling time to the half hour. They are introduced...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Time to Tell Time
Students demonstrate how to tell time using an analog clock. In this time measurement lesson, students read the book Clocks and More Clocks and use analog clocks to demonstrate the time that the teacher called out.
Illustrative Mathematics
Making a Clock
Have a fun time teaching children to read analog clocks with this whole-group math activity. Using large sets of the numerals 1-12 and 0, 5, 10...55, the teacher creates a large clock on either the carpet or the white board, explaining...
Franklin College
Tell Time to the Nearest Half-hour and Relate to Events
Youngsters examine how to tell time to the nearest half-hour. They discuss why people wear watches, listen to the book "What Time Is It?" by Sheila Keenan, view examples on a model clock, and complete a worksheet with the teacher.
Curated OER
Telling Time to 5 Minutes
In this second grade lesson your class will practice telling time. The goal is to tell time to five minutes using an analog clock. Your young students count by 5 minute intervals and discuss elapsed time.
Curated OER
Telling Time as an Everyday Use of Numbers
How can we estimate time? Have your young mathematicians make a clock. Then they compare and contrast types of clocks. They practice writing times in two different ways and make a book about telling time.
Curated OER
Telling Time Lesson Plan
Judy Clocks are a great invention. Here, learners review telling time to hour and half hour on Judy clocks, begin telling time to quarter hour, use clock stamps to practice, and play computer games using Trudy's Time and Place House...
Curated OER
Telling Time Bingo
Have your youngsters examine the difference between digital and analog clocks. Using They participate in a "Telling Time BINGO" game. Not only is this activity fun, but it provides the teacher with an opportunity to informally assess his...
Curated OER
Telling Time
Young learners participate in activities which help them understand analog clocks, and the vocabulary of telling time. They examine the values of the intervals of minutes and hours by making a human clock.
Curated OER
Rock Around the Clock Math
An engaging and fun lesson on telling time is here for you. In it, young time-tellers listen to the song, "Rock Around the Clock," then use Judy Clocks to practice telling time to the hour and half hour. Finally, using paper plates, each...
Curated OER
Interpret Clock Time
Save yourself a few minutes of planning with this elementary math lesson on elapsed time. Through a series of collaborative and independent learning activities, children explore different real-world situations as they learn how to...
Curated OER
My Time!
Learners explore how to tell time by looking at their daily schedule. Everyone's days start out the same (with school), but what does each learner do after school? How do they spend their time?
Curated OER
Telling Time With Clocks/Bingo “Time”
Young learners create a clock by adding hands and placing the numbers in the correct location. After each learner has their very own clock, they explore each component. Review on the hour times, and then introduce them to five-minute...
Education World
Got the Time? (Math Word Problems)
Upper graders work with peers to solve word problems related to time and independently solve word problems that involve calculating time. They will show their ability to solve and work through mathematical operations. A worksheet is...
Curated OER
Time/Elapsed Time
Young mathematicians complete various activities to demonstrate proficiency in telling time and identifying elapsed time. They analyze and discuss television schedules, create a booklet about their daily activities, produce a TV. guide,...
Curated OER
Hickory Dickory Doc Tell Time
Students discover time keeping by reading clocks. In this time-telling lesson, students read the story Hickory Dickory Dock, and discuss the measurements of time we use. Students complete worksheets in which they identify the times of...
Curated OER
It's About Time!
Students examine concept of time, and explore difference between analog and digital clocks; students make art project to represent time and create a time-story problem and solution.
Curated OER
Telling Time: Two Ways to Read the Time
Second graders discuss the two different ways of reading time. They study the vocabulary "minutes to" and tell time in five minute intervals. They discuss why it is important to have schedules and students list some schedules that they...
Curated OER
EMH Time Lesson
Tell time using a number chart! Elementary schoolers of all ages demonstrate their ability to tell time by using a clock. They use this skill to follow a daily schedule.
Curated OER
The Very Grouchy Ladybug: Telling Time
Students practice telling time by reading a children's story. In this time keeping lesson, students read the book The Very Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carl, and create a schedule for the ladybug to complete certain activities. Students...
Curated OER
1, 2, 3 o' Clock Rock
Second graders identify the hour and minute hands. They tell time by the hour, nearest quarter hour, half hour, and determine the relationships of time (e.g. minutes in hour, days in a month, weeks in a year). They create over-sized...
Curated OER
Matching Times
Study digital and analog times on a clock with learners. They will use the Kidspiration template to create a digital and analog time display on the computer. They also display the correct times on both analog and digital clocks when the...
Space Awareness
What is Time?
Does it ever seem like time is slipping through your fingers? Model the passing of time with an hourglass activity in which individuals determine whether hourglasses are the most efficient way to measure time.