Date: October 23, 1996
Grade Level(s): 2
Subject(s):
Goal: The students will have a better concept of time.
Objectives:
1. The students will place themselves in the shape of a clock and verbally tell the class what time it is when other students use their arms as hands of a clock.
2. The students will draw clocks representing the time that they get up, eat lunch, leave school and go to bed.
Background information: This is a good lesson to use as an introduction to telling time or as a review for older students. It helps to give students a hands on activity. They can visualize and be part of a clock. The lesson may be better suited for smaller classes.
Materials:
Procedures:
Tell the students that there are two number lines on the clock. Ask them what they might be (hours & minutes). The large numbers represent the hour and the little dashes represent the minutes. The hands on the clock point to either the minutes or the hours. The small hand represents the minutes and the big hand represents the hours. Make sure they understand that the hour hand represents the hour that was last past even though the hand does not point directly at the hour. This may be a good time to talk about the fact that there are 5 minutes between each hour so you can multiply the number that the minute hand has just passed by 5 and add up the remaining dashes to figure out the minutes.
Have 12 students arrange themselves as a clock. Have two students in the center of the clock be the hands of the clock. Students can take turns calling out different minutes, hours, or complete times and the 'hands' need to point to the proper numbers. You can rotate the hands and the people calling out numbers. Make sure to remind them that they are representing two number lines.
Assessment:
After you are certain they understand the concept of telling time have them go back to their seats. They will then draw clocks representing key times of their day like when they get up, go to lunch, their favorite t.v. show is on, school is out, and when they go to bed.