Date: February 26, 1997

Grade Level(s): Kindergarten, 1

Subject(s):

• Interdisciplinary

Description: Understanding time can be very difficult for young children. One way of helping students understand the flow of time is to use time lines. This lesson uses the daily classroom routine to provide a visual and meaningful reinforcement of this concept.

Goal: The students will understand how time divides their day.

Objectives: The student will:

• Make a drawing of a classroom activity and write the correct time it takes place.
• Clip each of the pictures made in chronological order on the clothesline.

Background Information: This activity can be used with students at higher levels through modification. This lesson teaches about time through the students' own basic schedule but older students may use it for understanding historical events or as an autobiography activity.

Materials:

Clothesline

Clothespins

Paper

Crayons

1. Discuss the activities that the class does everyday. List these things on the board or on chart paper. These may include everything from quiet reading time to leaving for the bus.

2. List the time next to each of these activities.

3. Have each student choose one of the activities listed.

4. On a piece of paper allow the children time to illustrate the activity they chose. Make sure they write the time the activity takes place on the bottom of their sheet.

5. When all of the students have competed their illustration have them clip it to the clothesline you have hung across the room.

6. Have a student helper move the pictures to the correct place on the clothesline while you discuss with the students what came first.

7. Complete the timeline asking questions as you go.

Assessment:

1. Ask students questions that compare daily activities.
2. Ask students what time different routines are completed.