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.
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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.
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.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Elapsed Time Using Train Schedules
This lesson connects calculating elapsed time in a real world setting, using actual train schedules.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: My Time!
A lesson designed to review telling time, record keeping, and calculating elapsed time.
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.
Better Lesson
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.
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...