This week I decided to do a lesson on telling time. I did a lesson over time in another class before so I felt comfortable doing this lesson. Instead of just learning to tell time like my other lesson, I did learning to tell time to the half-hour. I enjoy teaching any time of lesson. I also did a lesson this week over recycling so I used my social studies strategies. I feel the most comfortable writing lesson plans in math but it was fun to write some in other subjects as well.
Lesson Four
Title:
Telling time by the half-hour.
Grade Level:
First Grade.
State and/or local standards: CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.MD.B.3
Tell and write time in
hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.
Goals and learning objectives: Students will have a full understanding of how to
tell time by the half-hour.
Student’s Needs: Prior knowledge: Students need to have a full understanding of how to
tell time by the hour and how to read an analog clock.
Materials:
Big plastic clock, paper clocks we made the other day, markers and marker
boards, worksheets.
Before/Hook:
We will begin our lesson by watching a video on half hour times. This video is
a little longer, and reviews what the students should already know.
During: Teacher and Student actions: After the video, I will start my lesson by having the
students count the numbers on the clock by 1’s then by 5’s. When they get to
the 6 (30) I will tell them this number will be very important today. I will
show them how to create the half-hour on my big clock and have them create it
on their paper clocks. I will then tell them to show me different times on
their paper clocks and have one student come show the class on the big plastic
clock. I will have the students now get out their markers and white boards. I
will have them all draw a big circle and create a clock on their marker boards
with a black marker. Then we will have a blue and red marker and I will ask
them to show we different times by them drawing their hour and minutes hands. I
will do this until I feel most students are getting the concept of telling time
by the half-hour.
After: Checking for understanding/Assessment: I will have a small worksheet for the students that
they can do in partners, as they work I will walk around the room and listen
and watch on how well they understand what they are doing.
Independent Practice: Each student will have two matching worksheets to
complete. They will have on a clock to the half-hour and they have to match it
to the digital clock on the other side.
Closure:
I will draw a big clock on the white board and draw a time with my red and blue
and have students write down their answer and turn it in to me.
Accommodations:
For students that are having a hard time on the half-hour I will have them
focus still on just the hour of telling time until they can move on to the half
hour, I will also work one on one with these students.
For students that are
beyond this level I will have them go online and find 2 different learning
resources that could help them and the other students and have them share their
findings with the class at the end of the lesson.
