Lesson Plan
Elapseable
It's time to learn about time. In this hands-on lesson, students manipulate clock hands and jump across timelines in order to calculate the "distance" between different times and events.
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Learning Objectives
Students will be able to describe the concept of elapsed time.
Introduction
(5 minutes)- Introduce the concept of elapsed time to your students by explaining that elapsed time means that time passes, or goes by.
- Ask students to share some examples of elapsed time. Some guiding questions you can ask are: "How much time has elapsed since you woke up? How much time elapses while you eat lunch?"
Beginning
- Provide students with a notecard with the words "elapsed time" written in English and their home language (L1). Ask students to draw a picture on the back of the notecard to represent what elapsed time means (e.g. a picture of the morning on the left and the night on the right).
- Ask students to explain what elapsed time means in their home language (L1) with a bilingual partner, if possible.
Intermediate
- Ask students to turn and talk to a partner, explaining elapsed time in their own words.
- Provide students with small analog clocks and guide them as they figure out how much time passes from waking up to coming to school.