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Telling Time Lesson Plans

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  1. 5 Minute Intervals- To introduce counting by fives. To teach telling time to the five minute intervals. To teach tellling time to the quarter hour.
  2. A Living Timeline- Set aside a day for your class to celebrate your town's history. To mark the day, students will create a living timeline that will narrate the most important events.
  3. Can You Measure Up?- After reading Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummel's book Cook-A-Doodle-Doo!, primary students will engage in dramatization and a variety of measuring activities that include estimation, equivalents, and elapsed time.
  4. Can Plants Tell Time?- A PDF lesson plan.
  5. Elapsed Time- To introduce how to determine the time before or after an interval of hours. To introduce how to determine the time at the end of an interval of hours and minutes. To solve problems about elapsed time.

Telling Time Worksheet Maker

Determining time on an analog clock. Time from fixed hands. Includes clock hand drawing.

Time Skills Workbook

Reading analogue clock faces is the focus of this workbook. There are 34 printable worksheets in all.
  1. Got the Time? (Math Word Problems)- Math word problems put students' telling-time/clock skills to practical use.
  2. Half Hours- To teach telling time to the half hour To introduce telling time on a digital clock.
  3. Hours- To introduce the elements of a clock and explain their functions. To teach telling time to the hour.
  4. It’s About Time!- This lesson allows students to examine the potentials, both positive and negative, of adapting an international 'Internet time' system. Students then create and solve word problems that require them to translate between the current time system and Internet time.
  5. Just a Minute!- Help students put one minute in perspective.
  6. Mapping the Past- This lesson provides students with experience in working with historical maps as cultural artifacts that reflect the views of particular times and places.
  7. Seasonal Changes- Students will understand seasonal effects on plants and animals Students will be able to identify physical changes caused by the seasons.
  8. Take a Walk Through My Day- Students will practice how to tell time on an analog clock. Students will pantomime activities that they do in a typical day and the class will guess at what time the student does a particular activity, noting whether the activity is taking place in the AM or PM.
  9. Teaching Students to Tell Time: Three Resources for Busy Teachers- Three activity sheets help develop and reinforce students' clock/telling-time skills.
  10. Telling Time (by the hour)- The students will be able to describe and analyze what time is to them. They students will also be able to tell time and make their own clocks by the hour.
  11. The Calendar- To teach the names of the days of the week in order. To introduce the names of the months of the year. To teach the relationship between days, weeks, months and years.
  12. The Sun and Sundial- The students will learn about the role of the sun in the galaxy. Students will understand how to use the sun to tell time.
  13. Tick-Tock: Biological Clock- Students explore the concept of time and their own internal abilities to keep time. Then they consider the importance of biological clocks to migratory species.
  14. Time and Time Again- In this lesson, students analyze the effects of time zone differences on how we function as a global community, focusing particularly on the turn of the millennium as a way for students to calculate time zone differences.
  15. Time Capsule- Students will understand how to build a picture of life so that when asked to put together a time capsule they will be able to do so and give reasons to support the chosen items.
  16. Time Lesson Plan- Realize that time varies in different parts of the World.
  17. Time Management- This lesson addresses the skills needed to manage personal and work time.
  18. Time Marches On And So Do We- A huge theme unit plan.
  19. Two Ways to Read the Time- Why is it important to have schedules? What are some of the schedules that children keep?
  20. What Causes Seasons- Students will be able to explain what causes seasons to change. Students will be able to identify physical changes caused by the seasons.
  21. What Time Is It?- Students will be able to determine the appropriate time through using their individual clocks and through completion of a ditto.

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