Telling Time Lesson Plans

Use the Internet and library resources to compose a telling time timeline -- a visual history of time. Students will develop research skills and gain perspective about telling time by discovering the history of clocks and time.

First graders explore predicting and telling time. In this predicting and telling time lesson, 1st graders read an animal book and predict what animal will appear next. Students make a ladybug clock and work in pairs to practice telling time.

The clock is ticking and it is time for your first graders to learn how to read an analog and a digital clock. This math lesson includes reading pages from Telling Time by Jules Older, observing the two different types of clocks, as well as interacting with the PowerPoint provided. Lastly, the class will participate in making a human clock! Note: Two Word documents are also provided.

Students demonstrate how to tell time using an analog clock. In this time measurement lesson, students read the book Clocks and More Clocks and use analog clocks to demonstrate the time that the teacher called out.

In this second grade lesson your class will practice telling time. The goal is to tell time to five minutes using an analog clock. Your young students count by 5 minute intervals and discuss elapsed time. 

Students investigate analog clocks. In this analog clock lesson, students explore how to tell time. Students inspect clocks and observe the parts of the clock. Students listen to a lesson on Audacity as they explore telling time.

Students examine how to tell time to the minute and to the hour using manipulative clocks. They practice these skills at assigned Internet sites after listening to a teacher read aloud of Eric Carle's, The Grouchy Ladybug. They make a clock to practice and demonstrate with at home.

Students create a paper analog clock to aid them in their learning process of telling time to the nearest minute.  In this time telling lesson, students complete problems on the SmartBoard with a time telling game.             

First graders tell time to the nearest hour and differentiate between morning, afternoon, and evening. They create a paper place clock, and set their clocks to times dictated by the teacher. Students then complete a morning, afternoon, and evening chart with the teacher.

Students and teacher discuss the differences between the two clocks: digital and a clock with hands. They discuss the differences between the hour hand and minute hand. Students are taught telling time to the half hour. They are introduced to telling time on a digital clock.