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Story Behind the Science
Story Behind the Science: Pendulum Motion [Pdf]
The history of the pendulum and its importance both in timekeeping, and in how timekeeping was used to solve other problems, such as determining longitude on a map.
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: The Right Time
Students learn how to tell time to the hour and half hour in this interactive web lesson.
Society for Science and the Public
Science News for Students: World's Coolest 'Clock' Is Also Accurate
Article reports on the debut of the world's most accurate atomic clock. Includes a vocabulary list.
Other
The Official U. S. Time
Get the official U.S. time from the official U.S. timekeepers, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and its military counterpart, the U.S. Naval Observatory. Java needs to be enabled to see the timeclocks. There are...
That Quiz
That Quiz: Practice Test: Time
This resource provides a practice test for students to use to test their time telling skills.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Harcourt: Biographies: Benjamin Banneker 1731 1806
Provides an overview of the life of Benjamin Banneker in an easy to read format. Learn why he was an accomplished mathematician, astronomer, surveyor, and almanac writer.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Clock Arithmetic and Cryptography
This lesson plan is designed to guide students in practicing their basic arithmetic skills by learning about clock arithmetic and cryptography. Linked resources include helpful applets.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Seventh Grade Mathematics: Cycles
Teachers can use this resource for creating interesting lessons about time and time measurement. There are articles about leap year, converting time, as well as other links for further research. An interdisciplinary project about an...
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Elapsed Time
Students can practice determining elapsed time when given a start time and an end time. They can switch between digital and analog clocks.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How Does Math Guide Our Ships at Sea?
Explore the history of logarithms and sailing by watching this animated video. [4:19]
Math Slice
Math Slice: Time Slice Special Test
A concise tool for assessing time concepts such as telling time and elapsed time using analog clocks. Assessment is scored online and scores are compared with scores of all test takers. Great for use as a quick assessment.
Primary Resources
Primary Resources: Time
An extensive collection of teacher resources to aide in teaching time. There are smartboard and PowerPoint presentations, and many worksheets and ideas for teachers. Includes activities on time, calendar, months, and days.
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Time to Go
The learning activity explores how to tell time to the half hour.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The Perfect Day With Scaredy Squirrel
In this lesson, the mentor text entitled Scaredy Squirrel by Melanie Watt is used to get young scholars thinking about how they spend their days. Then students will write the hour and minute hands on blank clocks and will writing...
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Label the Clocks in French
Using this printable learning exercise, students practice telling time in French.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: On Time
A multimedia-rich site that examines time and our conception of it: marking time, mechanizing time, synchronizing time, saving time, and expanding time.
Other
Black Inventors Online Museum: Benjamin Banneker
Use this site to learn about Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806 CE), an African American that created the first clock built in the United States and was known as our first great Black Inventor.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Beginning, Ending, and Elapsed Time Using Two Clocks
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Cursor down if needed to locate the video "Determining Beginning, Ending, and Elapsed Time Using Two Clocks." Students watch a video and then attempt practice...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Determining Time Changes in 5 Minute Intervals With 2 Clocks
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students watch a video and attempt practice problems involving telling time with two clocks.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Time Patterns With Clocks
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students watch a video and attempt practice problems involving time patterns with clocks.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Telling Time on the Number Line
Match time of a number line to time on an analog or digital clock. Graph a given time on a number line. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Starfall
Starfall: Starfall: Match Clocks
In this interactive, students practice telling time on an analog clock by selecting the correct time given 3 choices for each time change.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Rockin' Around the Clock
This lesson will introduce students to the clock and telling time to the hour. This lesson plan was created by exemplary Alabama Math Teachers through the AMSTI project.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Timekeeping
Why do we need calendars and clocks? To survive in this complex society, you need to track what others are doing and when they're doing it. You also need to know what's happening in the natural world. This article discusses how/why...