Lesson Plan : TIME - The hour and half hour
Teacher Name: | Ms. Marthese |
Grade: | Grade 3 |
Subject: | Math |
Topic: | M3: TIME |
Content: | Read time to the hour and half hour on analogue clocks and digital clocks |
Goals: | Given different times to the hour and half hour, the students will move the big hand and the little hand on their student clocks, read orally, and write in digital form the time demonstrated. |
Objectives: | To read time to the hour and half hour on analog clocks and digital clocks |
Materials: | Teacher model clock Student clocks Different modes of telling time: clocks (analog and digital), Do a clock worksheet. Homework worksheet. |
Introduction: | Have on display in front of the students different modes for telling time including: clocks (digital and analog), stopwatch with mobile, alarm clocks etc. Ask the students: "What do all of these objects have in common?" Write their responses on the whiteboard. Then ask them, "What are some of the differences between these objects?" Again record their responses. To close the trigger activity ask the students, "What do you think we are going to be learning today? Verbally acknowledge their responses. |
Development: | Introduce a number line which contains the numerals one through twelve. Bend the number line into a circle to resemble a clock face. Provide a worksheet with a large circle. Ask the students to place the numerals inside the circle to make a clock face. According to the ability of the group, you may wish to place some marks on the circle to facilitate spacing of the numbers. (See: Clock face worksheet) 2. Review that the minute (long-blue) hand points to the twelve, while the hour (short-red) hand indicates the hour. Provide a worksheet with clocks that have no hands on them. Underneath each clock, write a time in the "o'clock" form. Have the students draw in the minute and hour hands to show the correct time. 3. Have each student make a paper plate clock face. Using a brad fastener, attach tag board or construction paper hands to the center of the plate. These clocks can then be used in various reinforcement activities. For example, as the teacher calls out a time, the students show the correct time on their clocks. This activity can be adapted to a team game. Divide the classroom into teams. When the teacher calls a time, the first person to correctly display his/her clock gains a point for his/her team. 4. The teacher writes a time on the board (3:00) in big font, and holds the time up on a flash card in large font. On the teacher model find the 3 and explain how the little hand points to the 3 and the big hand points to the 12 to show 3:00. |
Practice: | 1. Have the students, working in pairs and with teaching assistants circulating, use their clocks to show the time as well. The teacher should repeat this activity using 6:00, 2:00, 12:00, 3:00, 5:00, 1:00, 10:00, and 9:00, until the students have demonstrated understanding by completing the activity with 100% accuracy. 2. Repeat the same procedure to teach the half hour. |
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