Activity 4: Learning to Tell Time

General Information:

Name: Mary Kate Franklin and Sophie Fields

Grade Level: 1st Grade

Title: Learning to Tell Time

Standards:

NCTM Content Standard:

o Measurement

Common Core Content Standard:

o CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.MD.B.3
Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog
and digital clocks.

Common Core Practice Standard:

o Look for and make use of structure

Overview:
This lesson will begin with a brief pre-assessment.
Following this, there will be a read aloud and then direct group
instruction with white boards. The main activity will be an independent
student activity that focuses on converting time from analog to digital.
Objectives:
Students will be able to tell time of the hour and half hour using
analog and digital clocks.

Students will be able to write the time of the hour and half hour
using analog and digital clocks.

Students will be able to manipulate an analog clock to specific

hours and half hours.

Assessment:

Pre-assessment: The pre-test to assess the level of student

knowledge will involve the teacher using an analog clock model
to show various hours and half hours. The teacher will call on
students and ask them if they can tell what time it is.

Formative Assessment:
o Students will be formally assessed through their
whiteboard responses and in their I Spy Telling Time
worksheet.

Activity
Instructional Strategies:
o This lesson will be taught primarily through direct
instruction. The read aloud and white board activities will
be taught with the teacher as the director of the lesson.
The I Spy Telling Time activity will allow students to move
around the room and will be a more independent activity.

Mathematical Content Background:

o This is an introductory lesson into telling time so students
will need to possess minimal background knowledge. The
difference between an analog clock and a digital clock will
be explained, as well as a basic explanation of the big hand
and small hand of the clock. Students will learn that big
hand tells the hour and the small hand tells the minute.
The read aloud book will remind students of the nursery
rhyme Hickory Dickory Dock. This will refresh them on their
background knowledge of clocks and make the lesson more
relatable.

Procedures:
o Following the pre-assessment, the teacher will read the
book called The Completed Hickory Dickory Dock. This
book will introduce telling time in a simple way and make it
applicable to students who are familiar with the nursery
rhyme.
o The questions that will be asked throughout the story will
emphasis the time that is going on in the story. At each

page the teacher will point to the clock and ask, What
time is it in the story?
o After the story, the students will each be given a white
board clock mat that has both an analog and digital clock
on it. The teacher will read off different times including
hours and half-hours. The students will write the time on
both clocks and then hold it up for the teacher to see.

Students will then move on to an activity called, I

Spy Telling Time. There will be different cards with
analog clocks placed around the room that each tell
a different time. Each card will have a letter with it.
Students will walk around the room and fill out their
corresponding worksheet writing what time it is in
the digital style for each clock with its corresponding
letter.

Accommodations

o For students with vision problems, we will seat them at the front
of the room so that they can see during the story and watch the
teacher.
o Students that need a visual method when answering clock
questions will be supplied with their own mini analog clock where
they can manipulate the clock hands.
Resources/References
o The Completed Hickory Dickory Dock by Jim Aylesworth
o I Spy Telling Time worksheet by Anna Brantley