Lesson Plan
Rock Around the Clock
Get your students excited about telling time with this engaging lesson. Students will practice identifying intervals on an analog clock, and use this knowledge to tell time in 5 minute intervals.
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Learning Objectives
- Students will tell time to the nearest five minutes and learn relationships between time elements.
- Students will create and use pictures, manipulatives, models, and symbols to organize, record, and communicate mathematical ideas.
Introduction
(30 minutes)- Gather the class on the carpet in a circle. Give your students analog clocks and have them sit next to it on the floor.
- Tell the students that they will listen to a book called the The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle.
- Explain that in the book, the ladybug meets many animals. Your class will be helping their stories come to life.
- Place the 16 animal cards in the center of the circle and have each person take one.
- Tell the class to listen carefully as you read. As each animal is addressed in the book, the child with that animal's card must move to the center of the circle and act as the author describes. This acting includes movement and sound. After their scenes, they will return to their spots in the circle. Students are also asked to show the times on their individual clocks as the time appears during the story.
- Model an example using an animal NOT mentioned in the story, such as a giraffe. Demonstrate how a giraffe might move and how its neck would be straight and upright. Students will not be shown the pictures in the book so they will have to visualize for themselves how the scene should look.
- Read the story to the class. Pause occasionally and to ask questions that compare times. One example: How much time has passed from when the ladybug met the beetle, at 7:00, until she met the lobster, at 10:00?