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Telling Time to the Nearest Hour & Half Hour Bundle
1st Grade • Lesson Plan Bundle
$6.00
Quick Facts
Subject: Math, Measurement and Data
Type: Lesson Plan Bundle
Skills:
- Identify the hour and minute hands, read time on both an analog and digital clock to the hour and make their own clock to tell time
- Draw the hour and minute hands on both an analog clock and digital clock to match the time
- Play a game to practice reading times on analog clocks and writing the corresponding times on digital clocks.
Materials Needed: Required:
- Pencils, red, and blue crayons/colored pencils
- Large teaching clock and small student clocks or use clock printable
- Scissors, glue, and brad fasteners (if not available, you do not need them)
- Counting chips or small blocks – partners have 2 different colors each (or crayons/colored pencils if counting chips are not available)
- Document camera or whiteboard
Printable Resources:
- “Student Clock Project” (1 copy per student if you do not have student clocks)
- “Student Clock Practice Sheet” (1 copy per student)
- “Matching Time Game” (1 copy per student)
- “Matching Time Game Recording Sheet” (1 copy per student)
- “I Spy a Clock” (1 copy for the class)
- “I Spy a Clock Recording Sheet” (1 copy per student)
- “Tic-Tac-Toe Clocks” (1 copy per student)
- “Exit Slips” (as an optional assessment component) (1 copy per student)
CCSS: 1.MD.3
File Type: PDF Document
Lesson Plan Description
This bundle of lesson plans is broken down into 3 separate segments (30-60 minutes each) addressing Measurement & Data: (1MD.3). These lessons include: Introduction to Telling Time to the Hour, Drawing Hour and Minute Hands on a Clock & Writing Times and Games: I Spy a Clock, Tic-Tac-Toe Clocks.
- Segment 1: identify the hour and minute hands, read time on both an analog and digital clock to the hour and make their own clock to tell time
- Segment 2: Play a game to practice drawing the hour and minute hands on both an analog clock and digital clock to match the time
- Segment 3: Play a game to demonstrate their understanding of 1/2 hour and hour by reading times on analog clocks and writing the corresponding times on digital clocks
These lessons can be taught over the span of a half day or you can use the lessons independently, broken up over several days.