Learning To Tell Time

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Learning To Tell Time

• Instructors
• Dan Wetzel Jill Lauriente

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Topic

• Teaching Students to Tell Time
• Telling time on an analog clock is a vital part
  of surviving in the real world. Learning to
  properly tell time is a skill needed in everyday
  life. It is a part of the curriculum in
  elementary school because this is where the most
  basic concepts are taught.

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Audience

• Elementary school aged students ranging from 1-3
  grade.

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Materials

• Clocks
• Worksheets
• PowerPoint Presentation
• Internet

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Objectives

• How to tell time properly on an analog clock.
• Understanding the difference between AM and PM.

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Basic Clock
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Basics of telling time

• There are 24 hours in a day.
• The day is split into AM and PM.
• There are 60 minutes on the face of a clock.
• Each number represents an additional 5 minutes
  after the hour (i.e. 15 minutes, 210 minutes).

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AM

• AM stands for Ante Meridiem which is Latin for
  before midday
• AM is from Midnight (12am) until Noon (12pm)
• Usually associated with the morning hours.

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PM

• PM stands for Post Meridiem which is Latin for
  after midday.
• PM is from Noon (12pm) until Midnight (12am).
• Usually associated with the afternoon and night.

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Mini-Quiz

• 503 AM
• 318 PM
• 1200 AM (midnight)
• Please click below for clock.
• http//www.teachingtime.co.uk/clock/clockres.html

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GROUP TIME!!

• Individually, everyone must draw their favorite
  time of the day on a clock.
• Groups will be assigned (4-5 per group). Each
  person will tell one another why it is their
  favorite time of day and whether it is in the AM
  or PM.

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Sources

• http//www.mathsisfun.com/time.html
• www.teachingtime.co.uk/
• http//mdk12.org/mspp/vsc/index.html