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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!
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Telling Time - Online Games
A variety of resources are included here that will help your young learners tell time using either an analog or digital clock. The first resource listed, called "Teach Clock" is amazing! You can add or subtract time. Post it on your...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Just a Minute!
Students put the standard measure of clock time -- the minute -- in perspective. This lesson can be modified for virtually any grade level. They write about what they learned about a minute as a result of the activities.
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Telling Time
Young scholars estimate, measure, and compare the passage of time using minutes, half hours, and hours. They read the book 'It's About Time, Max!' with the teacher and draw an analog clock face. They show the time and 30 minutes later,...
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How To Measure Time
Students practice telling time on an analog clock. In this time measurement activity, students use individual analog clocks to identify the hour and minute hand. Students identify how to tell time by moving the hour and minute hand.
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Telling Time
Students study telling time to minutes and hours. In this telling time lesson, students watch the teacher complete an example of telling how many minutes are in 120 minutes and how many hours are in 150 minutes. They answer 10 questions...
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Telling Time
Students tell time. For this ELL vocabulary development and math lesson, students orally tell time to five minute intervals when shown a classroom clock. Students practice using number and "telling time" vocabulary in sentences and...
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Telling Time: Elapsed Time
Students review time telling skills and are introduced how to determine the time before or after an interval of hours. They then determine the time at the end of an interval of hours and minutes and solve problems about elapsed time.
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Sun and Shadows
Why do shadows look different in the summer than in the winter? What causes day and night? How can a sundial be used to tell time? Answer these questions and more through two engaging lessons about light and shadows. Fourth and fifth...
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Keep Track of time by watching the clock
Students answer questions about the clock. For this time lesson, students answer questions using intervals of five minutes. Students solve problems about how long to the next activity, how much longer, and whether or not we have enough...
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What Time Is It?
Fourth graders distinguish between analog and digital clocks and read time from both types. In this clock reading lesson, 4th graders discuss the types of clocks and the time zones. Students find times in specific time zones. Students...
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How to Calculate Time
Students complete a worksheet. In this calculations instructional activity, students learn factual information about computing time with clocks, calendars and eras. Students show their knowledge by completing a worksheet.
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Less Than Zero
Perry the penguin wants to buy a new scooter, but he doesn't have any funds! Walk your kids through the short book Less Than Zero, and have them track his borrowing, spending, and saving on a line graph while you read. Pupils will learn...
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Playing the Cards of Place Value
Third graders explore place value to the ten-thousands place. In this amazing, 21-page place value lesson, learners represent numbers in standard and expanded form, and use technology to represent numbers to 9,999.
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How Many in a Minute
Students estimate what they can accomplish in a minute. In this estimation lesson, students guess how many jumping jacks or stars they can draw in a minute. They get timed and see how close they are to their prediction.
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Shapes
Investigate the properties of three-dimensional figures with this Arctic-themed math lesson. Beginning with a class discussion about different types of solid figures present in the classroom, young mathematicians are then given a...
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Math Really Does Connect to the Real World
Young scholars listen to parent speakers who discuss how they use math in their professional or personal lives. They take notes and write business form thank you letters.
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Knowing North: Understanding the Relationship Between Time and The Sun
Students determine how to find North using a watch and their shadow. In this finding North lesson, students go outside on a sunny day and work with their shadow and a wrist watch to find out which direction that North is. They examine...
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Time for All Ages
Fourth graders discover time keeping by analyzing technological advances in history. For this time lesson, 4th graders create and complete a KWL chart based on their research of a famous timekeeping invention, such as a sundial....
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Clockwise/Counterclockwise Math
Students practice the concept of moving in clockwise and counterclockwise directions to tell time using addition and subtraction.