Save those precious minutes and hours spent planning math lessons with this mini-unit on telling time. Offering a series of engaging hands-on and collaborative learning activities, these three lessons teach children how to read analog clocks and help them to understand the relationships between different units of time.

Concepts

measurement, time, elapsed time, hours, minutes, weeks, years, seconds, analog clocks

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Additional Tags

math

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Instructional Ideas

• Create a set of laminated clocks using the included materials, using them year after year during lessons on time
• Keep the "Teacher Observation Checklist" on a clipboard, using it to take notes on student learning during the lessons
• As an additional activity, have students first estimate and then measure how long it takes them to complete various tasks

Classroom Considerations

• Unit involves a shared reading of the book Telling Time with Big Mama Cat  by Dan Harper, which may be found in your school or local public library

Pros

• Multiple worksheets and supporting printable materials are included with the resource
• Lessons offer suggestions for reteaching or extending student learning
• Includes two separate assessments with corresponding answer keys

Cons

• None

Common Core

3.MD.A.1 MP4 MP6