Florida Center for Reading Research
Fluency: Words, Fast Words
Taking turns, pre-readers time each other as they read high-frequency words.
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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.
Film English
365 Grateful
Encourage gratitude with a short film. Pupils first explore what grateful means and come up with five things they are grateful for. After a discussion, they watch the short film twice and discuss the content after each viewing,...
Chicago Botanic Garden
Historical Climate Cycles
What better way to make predictions about future weather and climate patterns than with actual climate data from the past? Young climatologists analyze data from 400,000 to 10,000 years ago to determine if climate has changed over...
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Time and Timetables
Young scholars, after answering a variety of questions involving time expressed in different ways, draw a table to illustrate time in words as well as digits. In connection, they observe time on analogue watches and clock faces along...
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Total English Advanced: Telling Stories
In this telling stories activity, students read the beginnings of 5 stories and respond to 5 short answer questions. Students also work with a partner to continue each of the stories.
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Math Worksheet: What time Is it?
In this time telling worksheet, students complete 18 problem solving questions regarding clock reading. Students identify the hour hand and minute hand on each clock before writing the correct time below.
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Persuasive Letters and The Tell Tale Heart
Students write persuasive letters based on "The Tell Tale Heart." They brainstorm topic sentences, main ideas, and details. They analyze the character and determine if he is innocent or guilty. They create a map listing their reasons to...
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Total English Upper Intermediate: Themed Time Capsules
In this making a time capsule worksheet, learners choose 3 topics from the list that interest them and respond to 3 short answer questions regarding the topics for time capsules.
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Making Your Own Clock
In this time instructional activity, students create their own clock. Students draw the hour and minute hands to show the time on 12 different clocks. Students also write the correct time that is shown on 12 clocks.
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Clock Faces
In this telling time worksheet, students will build an analog clock out of paper and practice telling time. A list of teaching ideas is on page 2.
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Match the Clocks to the Correct Time
In this telling time activity, students analyze the time on 7 clocks and match them with the correct time which is expressed in words. Times are to the nearest five minutes.
Bowland
Speedy Santa
Santa sure is fast. In the assessment task, learners calculate the number of minutes Santa can spend at each house. This calculation requires the use of given population demographics data.
University of Exeter
Angles and Turns
Junior geometers investigate the concepts of angles and turns using straws to perform a hands on activity. This is helpful for kinesthetic learners who have a hard time with mathematics. The lesson plan includes the dialogue to be used...
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Telling A Story
Students discover that every story has a start, middle and end. For this literature lesson, the teacher models using a picture to show the parts of the story. Students each take a picture and tell a story using start, middle and end.
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Show Don't Tell
Students review the Show Don't Tell method of writing haiku poetry. They practice distinguishing poetic language from academic language and create poems based on images, not explanations.
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Traveling Through Time, Wetland Style
Learners create a timeline on the development of the Pajaro Valley Area. In this social science lesson, students discuss the changes that took place in the area over the past 300 years. They draw a pictures of how the area has changed...
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Clocks and Time
Students construct clocks and then learn how to read a clock face, tell time, and determine how much time has elapsed.
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Analog Clock Faces: Drawing Hands
In this clocks worksheet, students draw hands on nine analog clocks to match the digital times shown. All times are in ten minute increments.
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Draw Clock Hands: Nearest Half Hour
In this telling time activity, students analyze the digital times under 9 clocks with no hands. Students draw the hour and minute hands on the clocks to show the correct time to the nearest half hour.
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Solving time word problems
In this time worksheet, students solve word problems dealing with the concept of time. Students complete 12 time word problems.
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13 Ways to Tell Time Backwards
Students explore different ways geological time can be measured: comparing the time dimensions for each method, the mechanisms of each method, and the materials used.
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Keep-a-Cube
Waxed paper, newspaper, or aluminum foil? Keeping an ice cube from melting may require one or more of these materials. Learners design a box that will provide insulation so an ice cube stays intact for at least 90 minutes.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Fluency: Words, Quick Sort
Peers work together to boost fluency by timing each other as they read and sort multisyllabic words. Record sheets keep track of participants' progress.