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Curated OER

It's About Time!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
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.
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Curated OER

How Clocks Work

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students discover time pieces and complete telling time activities. In this time lesson, students complete a worksheet about what make a clock keep time. Students watch a video about time and clocks as well as a video about an Egyptian...
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Curated OER

Telling Time With Clocks/Bingo “Time”

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
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...
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Curated OER

What Time Is It?

For Teachers 4th
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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Curated OER

ESOL: Time and Money

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students study the parts of an analog and digital clock. They create paper clocks to identify telling time to the hour, half-hour, and quarter past and quarter after. They practice tellng time in pairs.
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Curated OER

Time

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Here, learners review telling time using an analog clock. They use a clock to tell time, make a paper clock, and discuss the concept of elapsed time. However, the lesson is not always easy to follow, nor are the questions clear.
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Curated OER

Time On My Hands

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young learners engage in discussions and activities on telling time, different types of clocks, and how the parts of a clock actually work. The engage in interactive websites, hands-on games, and watch a video on the art of the clock and...
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Curated OER

Telling Time as an Everyday Use of Numbers

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
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.
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Clocks and Time

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders observe and demonstrate how to tell and write time. They discuss different ways and things that tell time, then listen to a teacher-led lecture about the hands on a clock. Students complete a worksheet along with the...
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Curated OER

Time: How To Tell What Time It Is

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners practice telling time using analog and digital clocks.  In this time telling lesson, students read the book The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle, and practice telling the time on a model clock that is constantly changing....
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My Time Book

For Teachers 1st
First graders write a time book. In this writing and telling time lesson, 1st graders learn about the concept of time using a Judy clock. Students read a book about a ladybug and look closely at the time on the clock.  Students then...
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Curated OER

What Time is it?

For Teachers K - 3rd
Young scholars participate in three centers focused on developing time-telling skills. In this time lesson, students create their own paper plate clock face, play "Time Concentration" using times on the hour and half hour, as well as,...
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Curated OER

Introduction to Hours & Minutes

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify, interpret, and gain proficiency in using a clock to tell time to the hour and determine how many minutes are in an hour. They identify and list what they do as they travel through their dayand how much time you...
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Telling Time

For Teachers K - 5th
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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Rock Around the Clock

For Teachers 1st
First graders use a Judy Clock to learn time to the hour and half hour. They practice by ringing a bell and telling the time. They complete an activity sheet after practicing for several days.
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Elapsed Time and Scheduling

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners improve their time management by watching a video segment of a busy student making a schedule. In this elapsed time and scheduling activity, students create their own schedules and learn to calculate elapsed time in both digital...
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Perkins School for the Blind

Familiar Sounds

For Teachers K - 6th
To foster concept development and auditory discrimination skills, learners with visual impairments listen to identify a variety of common sounds. The teacher makes recordings of various sounds, including those found in the home, at the...
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An Encyclo-ME-dia for Every Child

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners create a digital scrapbook that shows information-text and pictures that are specific to each child. They make charts and graphs. They use digital cameras, scanners, software, to write captions, stories, poems, letters, and...
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Telling Time: Hours

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students participate in a discussion about the different types of timepieces and the energy sources necessary to run them. They observe the numbers on a clock and review the hands and what they mean and make individual clocks using a...
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Time & Itineraries Two

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners explore time management by participating in itinerary activities. In this time telling instructional activity, students identify how to read a clock, how to communicate the time to others and how to plan for events in the day....
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The Fable of Franny And Her Fabulous Fainting Goat

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Mix the art of reading comprehension with the skill of telling time. Children in grades two and three will discuss the importance of goats throughout history based on the provided background information. They'll create cute goat...
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Virginia Department of Education

Hoppin' on the Elapsed Time Line

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Time flies when you're teaching math! Okay, maybe not for everyone, but this lesson will have your young mathematicians calculating elapsed time before you know it.
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American Psychological Association

Counting Fidgets: Teaching the Complexity of Naturalistic Observation

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Why do psychologists conduct experiments in controlled laboratory settings? High schoolers gain an understanding of the importance of controls with an activity that involves naturalistic observations with no imposed controls.
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Telling Time in Different Time Zone

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders create clocks and complete small group activities to represent the six different times zones in the US. Using small paper plate clocks, 4th graders visually demonstrate the differences in these time zones.