How to tell time

Grade Level: 1st Subject: math Prepared By: Kristy Williams

Overview & Purpose Education Standards Addressed

My students will be introduced to the hour and minute hand on the analog clock and §111.3. Mathematics
learn how to tell time. This will be helpful in daily life when a digital clock isn’t at their
fingertips.

Lesson Details
Objectives Students will learn how to read the hour and minute Materials Needed
(Specify skills/information that will hands on an analog clock  Learning to tell time Hand
be learned.)
out
 Pencil

Information Will discuss that the hour hand (short hand) keeps the
(Give and/or demonstrate necessary number it is pointing to. And the minute hand (long
information)
hand) is always used by counting the whole numbers
as multiples of 5.

Verification Ask questions Other Resources

(Steps to check for student Use reverse education where they tell me what I just (e.g. Web, books, etc.)
understanding) Analog clock
taught.

Activity Learn to tell time worksheet will help reinforce the

(Describe the independent activity to
reinforce this lesson)
Summary
lesson. The first section gives clocks with time on it
and the students write down the time. The second part
gives the time with clock and the students draw the
hands on the clocks. The page has 16 problems, 8 of
each.
Discussed how the hour hand always equals the whole Additional Notes
number on the clock. And how the minute hand is Could make paper plate clocks
always used in multiples of 5 because there is 60 to tie in an art project will help
minutes in an hour, and the :00 means o’clock. the kinesthetic learners.