Teacher Link Page
Latest update to this document: 2 December 2002
This teacher link page has many links on it to help the teacher form some ideas on how to teach telling time. There are a few lesson plans available from this page, along with products to buy and other helpful sites.
Lesson Plans
This lesson plan was created by Davina Rasa. It requires the book entitled, "The Grouchy Lady Bug" by Eric Carle but could be done without that particular book. There is an activity idea along with grading suggestions on this lesson plan for those teachers who don't have many ideas on lessons to teach the class.
This lesson plan was made by Mandi Fraley and Robyn Boyd, and it is geared toward first grade students or any students learning how to tell time. The objectives are: "The students will be able to describe and analyze what time is to them. They will also be able to tell time and make their own clocks by the hour. They will become familiar with time and have an meaningful experience to relate to. The students will be able to correlate time from an interesting and age-appropriate book as well as through classtime."
This lesson plan would go along great with the Jayzee Bear link. It is geared toward grades K-2. It is basically about what time people would be doing certain things, and the students will be able to write down what they'd be doing and draw themselves doing that particular thing at a given time. This lesson goes along with the book entitled "Time To..." written by Bruce McMillan. However if the teacher does not have this book, this activity would still be useful with some minor adjustments.
Products to Buy
This Curriculum Online product must be bought in order for it to work. It provides a class clock, worksheets, and five interactive games for the teacher to present to the class learning about telling time. Flashcards can be made for the students on this site, also. There are only a few worksheets that are available for free from this website because the author really wants the teachers to purchase the access rights to this time teaching lesson. There are also links to other time-telling pages that may be of use to the teacher.
Accu Cut presents a cutting machine that can be purchased to make paper clocks. Chalk would also be needed to write the numbers of the clock on it. A teacher can buy the cutting machine or just use this site as an idea that he/she could use in their classroom. The option of printing the clock is also presented on this site.
This site wants teachers to buy the Primary Teaching Clock. It has a large face with movable hands, and it also can track digital time as the hands are moved on the clock. This clock would be great in the second grade classroom because it is a hands-on activity for the students to do to help them learn how to read a clock and associate a clock with hands to a digital time clock.
"Winnie-The-Pooh Tells Time" is by A. A. Milne, and it is a fun way for students to get interested in learning how to tell time. It shows Pooh doing time-appropriate things during the day, and it is geared toward younger students who are not quite ready to get into the full blown lesson of time-telling.
Other Helpful Sites
Kid Klok could be helpful for the teacher or the student. The concept is simple: pick a time from the numbers listed and the clock with that time will load on the page so you can see what the clock would look like. Teachers could use this site in their classroom for students who just don't seem to get the hang of telling time.
The Time Unit site is full of links to different pages and other resources for teachers to use in their classroom. There are lesson ideas, workbook ideas, game links, worksheets, information on the history of telling time and clocks, and sundial activities for students to do. This is a definite must-see web site for all of those educators having difficulty teaching how to tell time to their class.
A printable clock link is included in this site. It also has helpful hints on how to go about teaching children how to read a clock if a teacher is completely clueless of how to start the time-telling lesson. There are quite a few pop-up ads along with this site, but it is well worth it if the teacher needs suggestions on how to go about teaching this necessary lesson.
Under "Time and Measurement Activities," there are a few different pdf files for teachers to get ideas on how to teach their students about reading a clock. The files include, "Units of Time Concentration Cards," Elapsed Time Word Problem Cards," Make Your Own Clock," and "Blank Clock Patterns."
Look under math - time on this site for worksheets concerning telling time. These free printable worksheets would be helpful in time-telling lessons, and it would be a quick and easy way to get worksheets fast for the classroom. There even is a transparency link for a transparency the teacher can use while teaching a clock lesson.
Links
Link to Northern Michigan University
A. Barker: abarker@nmu.edu