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Time After Time Unit PlanTime After Time Unit Plan
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3rd - 4th
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Math
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Time After Time

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Save those precious minutes and hours spent planning math lessons with this mini-unit on telling time. Offering a series of engaging hands-on and collaborative learning activities, these three lessons teach children how to read analog clocks and help them to understand the relationships between different units of time.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

measurement, time, elapsed time, hours, minutes, weeks, years, seconds, analog clocks

Additional Tags

math

Instructional Ideas

  • Create a set of laminated clocks using the included materials, using them year after year during lessons on time
  • Keep the "Teacher Observation Checklist" on a clipboard, using it to take notes on student learning during the lessons
  • As an additional activity, have students first estimate and then measure how long it takes them to complete various tasks

Classroom Considerations

  • Unit involves a shared reading of the book Telling Time with Big Mama Cat  by Dan Harper, which may be found in your school or local public library

Pros

  • Multiple worksheets and supporting printable materials are included with the resource
  • Lessons offer suggestions for reteaching or extending student learning
  • Includes two separate assessments with corresponding answer keys

Cons

  • None

Common Core

3.MD.A.1 MP4 MP6

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