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Visnos: Interactive Clock

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Determine the time, degree of angles, and fractions, using this interactive white board clock activity.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: A Matter of Time

For Students 3rd - 5th
Do you wake up at the crack of dawn, or do you need an alarm clock to wake you up each morning? It may surprise you that the two are not always in synch. Nowadays, we use Standard Time to set our watches instead of Solar Time. Which...
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Time Monsters: Telling Time: Learning Time

For Students K - 1st Standards
What a wonderful site to practice telling time! This site provides fifteen mini lessons about the clock as well as quizzes and printable worksheets to master the skills.
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Scholastic

Scholastic Instructor: Ticktock Clock Fun

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Use these various learning games in your classroom to teach about clocks and telling time. Reproducibles are included.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: What Time Is It?

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Can your students tell time? Use this lesson that includes a getting started, an activity, and practice to help students be able to tell time.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Making a Clock

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learning to tell time is a skill that needs to be practiced often in the classroom. In this activity, the students sit in a large arc/rainbow in order to make a giant clock to practice telling time. Instructions for making the clock,...
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Pizza (Italian) Restaurant: Time and Capacity

For Students 1st - 2nd
On this interactive website students practice various math skills using a real life scenario at an Italian restaurant. Those skills include determining time from analog clocks, observing capacity of two containers, and putting three...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 2.md Ordering Time

For Teachers 2nd
This lesson plan students explore telling time digitally and on an analog clock.
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Math Aids

Math Aids: Time Worksheets

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Great resource to practice and strengthen math skills pertaining to time. Math worksheets are printable, may be customized, and include answer keys.
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Time and date.com

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a free site which began with the World Clock, and has grown to include many other wonderful tools for learning about time and date. what makes this site distinctive, is its ability to manipulate the perspective internationally to...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Portable Sundial

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity students will investigate the accuracy of sundials and the discrepancy that lies between "real time" and "clock time". They will track the position of the sun over the course of a relatively short period of time as they...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: On Time: Alarm Clock

For Students 9th - 10th
People awoke not with the rising of the sun, but with the rude, mechanical jangling of an alarm clock at their bedsides. The clock, rather than the sun or any rhythms of nature or body, determined the patterns of life and work. People...
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Football for Kids: Timing and Clock Rules

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about the rules for timing and the clock in football. How long is a football game?
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: The Perfect Day With Scaredy Squirrel

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this lesson, the mentor text entitled Scaredy Squirrel by Melanie Watt is used to get students thinking about how they spend their days. Then students will write the hour and minute hands on blank clocks and will writing complete...
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Famous Scientists

Famous Scientists: Christiaan Huygens

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about prominent Dutch mathematician and scientist, Christiaan Huygens, whose work included early telescopic studies of the rings of Saturn and the discovery of its moon Titan, the invention of the pendulum clock, and other...
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Youngzine

Youngzine: Week of 11 05 12: An Hour More of Zzzz's..yay!

For Students 3rd - 8th
On Sunday, November 4 at 2 a.m, clocks in U.S were set back by an hour as Daylight Savings came to an end. What is DST? Who first proposed the idea? Is it practiced around the world? Let's take a look in this video. [0:37]
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: What if the Earth Stopped Spinning?

For Students 9th - 10th
Michael Stevens of Vsauce looks at what would happen if the Earth stopped spinning. He also explores how we construct time as a function of the Earth's rotation and why atomic clocks are so precise. [9:44]
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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: How to Speed Up a Slow Grandfather: The Pendulum

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this lesson plan students are "given one hour to solve a problem that a has caused a huge drop in sales" for a clock company. All clocks are five minutes slow. Because of this, they must find a way to put the clock back on time...
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The Astrolabe: Home Page

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a very general overview of astrolabe principles with links to other pages for more detailed information.
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Curated OER

Cbc Kids: 10 of the Latest Inventions to Make Life a Little Easier

For Students 3rd - 5th
Learn about some of the nifty inventions that add more functionality to common objects. With the Smart toothbrush, your teeth will be clean in no time. The Albert Clock forces you to answer a Math question before it tells you the time....
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How Does Your Smartphone Know Your Location?

For Students 9th - 10th
GPS location apps on a smartphone can be very handy when mapping a travel route or finding nearby events. But how does your smartphone know where you are? Wilton L. Virgo explains how the answer lies 12,000 miles over your head, in an...
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Florida State University

Florida State University: Magnet Lab: Electric Meter 1872

For Students 9th - 10th
The invention of the light bulb quickly created the need to track people's electricity usage. In 1872, Samuel Gardiner built the first simple power meter: a lamp with an attached clock that recorded the time the light was on.

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