Unit Topic or Theme: Math

• Grade: Second Grade

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• Lesson Topic or Theme: Telling Time

• Lesson Objectives:

• The students will be able to correctly label an analog clock accurately.

• The students will be able to correctly label the time on an analog clock using other time vocabulary such as, “half past eight.”

Instructional Technique: demonstration, individual work

Instructional Materials: www.abcya.com/telling_time.htm, Learn To Tell Time Worksheet, a learning clock for demonstration

• Theoretical Perspective: It is important for students to learn how to tell time because it is a skill that they will need throughout life. Time is used for a variety of things such as, cooking/baking, knowing when to go to bed or time to wake up to be on time for school, and sports.

• Procedure: Students will go onto the computer and then will go onto www.abcya.com  and go to the section called telling time. Once the students get to the website the teachers will bring them back to a full group and the class will do one as a full class. Once the class has done with the teachers they will go back onto the computer by themselves and go through the different levels. When completing the levels the students will complete a worksheet: Learn To Tell Time where they will have to label a clock with a time given from the website. After the students have completed level one of the time traveling game students will be brought back into a full group and the teacher will go over counting by 5’s because in further levels students could have a time like 3:35. When the class is together in a full group the teacher will also go over telling time when it says “show half past 8.” Once the teacher has gone over this the student’s will go back on their computers and students will complete more levels. At the end of the lesson students will come back to a full group and they will talk about what they have learned. After completing the activity the teacher will also explain what their homework will be.

• A. Introductory Activity (if applicable): The teachers will have the students gather on the rug in a circle.The teachers will show the learning clock set to 1 o’clock and ask the students if they know what time it is and how they know that it is 1 o’clock. . Teachers will ask students if they know that each number on the clock does not actually represent the real number. Teachers will also explain that there are numbers in between called minutes and what they represent. Teachers will also show and ask students if they know other names for times. Teachers will address any questions that the students have before sending them back to their seats to go onto the computer.

B. Students will go onto www.abcya.com, then they will click on GRADE 2. It will bring them to another page where will be 5 different options: Letters, Numbers, Holiday, Strategy, and Skills. Students will click on Numbers. This will bring them to another page with multiple games. They will scroll 7 rows down and click on the second one from the left named: Learn To Tell Time. This will bring them to the game. Then students will return to the rug for a demonstration of how to complete the activity. This will involve doing the first part on level one, showing them how to use the buttons to move the hands. If you hold down the arrows, then the hands move faster. The teachers will also go over how to do the first part of the worksheet. Once the example is complete, teachers will ask if anyone has any questions. Then students will be sent back to their seats to begin. Students will click on Level 1 (which is the easiest level) and then click on GO! It will have them choose between an analog clock on the left and a digital clock on the right. They will click on the analog clock, and then the game will begin.  As the students complete the level they will draw some of the times given to them on the game on their worksheet: Learn To Tell Time in the respective area. They will also label what time it is as well. Once everyone has completed level 1, the teachers will address how to do the second part of the worksheet and go over how to find time using other vocabulary such as “quarter past” and “five of” and how to count by 5’s on the clock to reach a time such as 3:35. This can be addressed while students are at their seats. Then the teachers will address any questions the students may have. Students may then move onto level 2 (which is slightly harder) once the teachers have finished. They will draw some of the times from level 2 in the respective area on their worksheet: Learn To Tell Time and label them too. Once they have completed level 2, it will move them on to level 3 (still getting more challenging). In level 3 it will ask more challenging questions, asking them to show time using different vocabulary, for example, it might want them to show “5 of 7”. While completing the level they will fill out the worksheet in the respective area. Once level 3 is complete, it will move them onto level 4. Level 4 is the last level and the hardest. This level will ask them to create time using vocabulary such as “quarter past 6”. While completing level 4 they will fill out clocks in on the worksheet in the respective area. Once they are finished with the game, they may exit the game,shut down the computers, and put their worksheet in the “Turn In” bin.

C. Once all students have finished the game they will sit on the rug in a circle. The teachers will then have each student say what they have learned and what they found to be challenging about the activity.

D. Adaptations for different learners:  For students who have a learning disability teachers could modify the lesson by telling them to go up to a certain level and then the students could stop. Or teachers could have them complete only a certain number of clocks in each level and then return to the main menu of the game and move onto the next level. They could also be given extra time to complete the activity.

E.  Homework: Worksheet: My Daily Schedule

• Evaluation:

A. How/ when will you determine if you have met your objectives?

• The students will be able to correctly label an analog clock accurately.

• The students will be able to correctly label an analog clock using other time vocabulary such as, “show half past eight.”

Teachers will know that students have met the objectives when they know how to first correctly label an analog clock. Teachers will know that student has met the objectives when they can label an analog clock using other time vocabulary.

B. Concerns or questions you have about teaching this lesson? One concern is that students may get confused about the hour hand and also the minute hand. Another concern is that students will get confused with the time vocabulary, because a quarter in time is not the same as a quarter used in money, which could cause confusion when creating a time such as “quarter past 5”. The final concern is that the objectives are too similar in wording, however they do have different meanings.