Kira Castle

Unit Plan Outline

Subject/Topic: Math Grade: 1st Class Time: 10-11 Lesson Date:
9/18/15
SOL: Time and Nonstandard Measurement (SOL 1.8) The student will
tell time to the half-hour, using analog and digital clocks.
Content Outline: This lesson will teach the students about the basic
measurements of time, with a focus on telling time to the nearest 30
minutes. The skills needed will be a basic understanding of numbers
and counting. The new skills that will be taught are determining what
time it is by time at the half hour or hour.
Rationale: This lesson is essential to the students learning because it
will help to develop their understanding of telling time. These skills are
fundamental to build on the understanding of the concept of time.
Time telling is also a resource to reinforce important ideas such as
counting by 5s, counting by 10s, rounding numbers to the nearest 5s,
and using numbers as anchors. Telling time is a critical skill for the
students everyday lives. Understanding times, and how they have a
specific place in the day, will help the students to comprehend why
telling time is important.
Objective(s) of the Lesson: The objective of the lesson is to have
students understand, or at least begin to understand how to tell time
to the half-hour, using both an analog and a digital clock. This will be
stated at the beginning of the class.
Lesson Opening: The lesson opener will be to introduce the topic of
telling time, and asking the students about their previous knowledge of
the subject. From Kindergarten, they would have already learned about
faces of the clock. Allow students time to discuss how they tell time.
Go over the use of the little and big hands. Talk about the previous
understanding (or help to reassure the understanding) of the where the
30-minute mark is and where the hour mark is. Once confidence is felt,
the lesson can proceed.
Connection: The lesson will take the students previous knowledge of
basic time telling, and connect it to this further step of telling time.
They will understand that their already understood concepts will help
to learn how time is used in a day, and the importance of the half hour
and hour marks.
Day One

Instructional Strategies/Processes
Introduce the students to the topic for the day. Get them excited
about learning how to tell time! Present objective.
Go over the classs previous knowledge of telling time (little vs.
big hand, counting by 5s, where the 30 mark and hour marks are
etc.)
Teach lesson on telling time to the half hour. This will be taught
having a large analog and digital clock on the board, as well as
passing out little analog clocks to the students. They will also be
given white boards to answer their digital clock times. The lesson
will be taught while the kids have clocks on their desks, so
frequent pauses can be made to play with time themselves.
Questions can be asked of the students such as: If it is now
10:00, what time will it be in 30 minutes? (Using an analog
clock) or show them a picture of a analog clock time and have
them write out the time on their white board and hold it up.
Teacher will hand out the in-class worksheet (see below) so that
the students can practice before the next assignment. The
students will be working in pairs on this.
Allotted time for closure. The teacher will ask the students what
they had learned that day. In the last couple minutes of class, the
Teacher will pull up a time-telling game on the computer and
play it with the whole class, asking for them to raise their hands
to answer the questions. After each answer, the Teacher will ask
the students for a reminder of why they chose that answer.
(http://www.oswego.org/ocsdweb/games/StopTheClock/sthec1.html)
Teacher will hand out review flashcards for the night to go over at
home. See Below.
Products: The students will produce their in-class worksheets. They
will be working in pairs, but each student is expected to produce his or
her own worksheet. This will ensure the understanding of telling time,
and how it relates to different parts of the day.
Assessment: The assessment will come in the form of the teacher
and Student Teacher walking around the classroom to assess which
students are getting through their worksheet quickly, or taking a little
more time (it will of course be understood that some students like
going slower than others and that is completely fine). This will give the
teachers an understanding of how well the students can verbally
explain what they learned. When the worksheets are handed in, it will
give the teachers an understanding of how well the students can write
down what they have learned.

Closure: The Teacher will bring the class back together as a whole,
and review the closing game. The game will be to ensure that the
students understand the basics of telling time at the 30-minute marks.
The simplicity, visual aid and fun expressed in the game will be more
likely to stick with the students than a lecture.
Homework: The students will take what they worked on in class and
simply review with the take home review flash cards. They will keep
this as notes to refer to for later on.
Differentiation: With this lesson, it allows for multiple opportunities
for the student to succeed. The first worksheet is meant to work with a
partner, so small interactions can take place for the students to
become comfortable with the material. Very often, students can learn
from one another. This also allows time to get help and ask questions.
The review at the end will be a final way of seeing where the students
are in class on their understanding. If there is a general lack of
understanding, the teacher will know that the material needs to be
improved or reviewed. More specifically, if a child has a visual
impairment, larger print worksheets can be made. If a student has
trouble reading, they can have the worksheet read to them. Etc.
Materials/Equipment:
Smart Board or projector (something where all students in the
class can see)
Mini analog clocks with moveable arms
White boards and dry-erase markers
Paper and pencils
Assigned worksheets and review cards

Name: ___________
Worksheet: Telling Time
Read the clock on the analog clock and write the time in the digital clock:

Read the time on the digital clock and draw in the hands of the right time on the analog clock:

9:30

11:00
GOOD JOB

10:30

Telling Time Review Flashcards

Please cut out each card on the dotted lines. Fold the card in half so the digital clock is on one side a

*Side note: realistically these flashcards would be much larger! Maybe three clocks and times to a fu

Day Two
Lesson Start: Students will pull out their new study flashcards and
start independently working with them while the class is getting settled
for the day.
Objective: Today the students will continue to practice their
knowledge learned in the previous class. The students will write a story
about their daily routine (wake up, eat, leave for school, lunch, etc.)
and include the times to the half hour at which they do so. For
example: I wake up at 7:00 oclock. They will have to write 6 sentences
with the times. The students will have their sentences completed by
the end of the class period to turn in. If there is extra time, allow for
the students to draw pictures to go along with their sentences. This
may take the whole class period, allow time for students to understand
why they are doing this, and how it relates to their day.
Differentiation: The daily routine activity will be more individual work
to lightly challenge the students to apply this to their daily lives. If
assistance is needed here, it will absolutely be given. This can be in the
form of prompting them with outlines of sentences such as:
At_____oclock, I _____.
Homework: Their homework will be to finish their story about their
daily routine with times. They will also be encouraged to review time
with the study flash cards.
Materials
Paper
Pencils
Colored pencils

Day 3
Lesson Start: Teacher will collect the students work of their daily
routine mini books. Then the whole class will play a game on time to
get their minds back into thinking about time.
Objective: Today will be a review day for the students in preparation
for the quiz tomorrow. This time will be relaxed in pace, but filled with
time to understand the lesson in its entirety.
Process:
Start with a review of telling time. At this point the kids should be
pretty comfortable with the topic.
Using something very similar to the game board below, the
students would have the chance to have some fun with time. The
game for our class specifically would be longer with many more
clocks and times (both analog and digital) on it.
The students would split into groups of 3-4.
With the board games provided, a student would roll a dice and
move that many spaces. If they are able to correctly tell the time
they get to stay on the spot. If they get it wrong they stay in
their last spot. First to the end of the board wins. Teacher will be
walking around at this time to help and see what areas need to
be worked on.
An alternate game, or additional game if there is enough time
would be Bingo, see below for one of the sheets. (Ive seen how
crazy excited kids get over games!).
After games are completed, the class will bring it back together
one more time to review.
If extra time is left, have students pull out flashcards to study.
They may work with a partner if they choose.
Finally, the teacher will hand out the homework for the night.
Homework: Worksheet seen below. To be turned in tomorrow.
Materials:
Board games
Dice
Bingo marker pieces
Paper

Pencils
Homework worksheet

Name: ____________
Homework: Telling Time to the Half Hour
Match the correct analog clock with the digital clock that is to the nearest half hour. See example. Good luck

12:30

1:00

2:00

4:30

3:30

Day Four (Final Day)

Objective: Today the students will take their quiz to wrap up the unit.
Process:
Students will hand in homework from the day before
Class will review before the quiz
Teacher will hand out the quiz and allow plenty of time to take
the quiz. The quiz will have two parts (similar to the 2
worksheets below). One part will be writing digital time from an
analog clock, and the other part be drawing then hands on an
analog clock from a digital clock time.
If there is extra time the teacher may pull out the games from
the day before for the kids to have some more fun. Winners can
get stickers from the sticker jar!
Materials
Quizzes
Paper
Pencils
Board games
Stickers