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BANG! Calendar review

This is a fun and exciting way for students to review calendar skills. The game can also be used to review skills from other content areas.

Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 Mathematics)

By Christy Walsh.

Color-coded time

This lesson introduces telling time to the minute using the analog and digital clocks. The hands are color-coded to assist with hour and minute hand discrimination. The student will use the time on the digital clock, which can then be transferred to the more difficult analog clock.

Format: lesson plan (grade 2–3 Mathematics)

By Anne Clodfelter.

Disney World timelines

The students have won a trip to Disney World but there are several things they have to do before they get to Orlando. The students will make a timeline to display these events and answer questions about them.

Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics)

By Jennifer Williams.

Geography centers

A geography unit in which students investigate and compare their hometowns and other cities. The unit incorporates nine centers: math, science, social studies, reading, writing, computers, puzzles and games, art, and listening. They all have activities that are integrated with the geography unit.

Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies)

By Laurie Perry.

Hands up for telling time

This introductory lesson on telling time will expose children to clocks and how they work. Children will begin to understand how to tell time and how the two separate hands on the clock operate. They will also gain understanding of the concept of time in general.

Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 Mathematics)

By Lisa Williamson.

"Hang" a time

Students will create their own timelines in a simple "clothesline" format using newspapers as a resource for dates, times, and words for related events. Criteria will be simple at first to assure understanding but can be made more complex with subsequent activities.

Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics)

By Cora Mae Pipkin.

Learning about time with Wee Willie Winkie

In Mother Goose in use: Rhymes that teach, page 11

In this kindergarten lesson plan, students use the nursery rhyme "Wee Willie Winkie" as a starting point to learn about time.

Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Healthful Living and Mathematics)

By Lisa Wright.

Telling time practice

Students will practice telling time skills using an applet developed by Shodor Educational Foundation, Inc. Permission has been granted for the use of the materials as part of the workshop "Interactivate Your Bored Math Students."

Format: lesson plan (grade 1–3 Mathematics)

By Bonnie Boaz.

Time - Light and shadow (pre-visit)

Students examine the interplay of the earth and the sun by studying shadows. Students construct a sun clock and record shadows several times during a school day in order to use the earth and the sun to measure time.

Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics and Science)

By Denise Young.

Time marches on!

Students will create autobiographical time lines, noting important events in their lives. Using these timelines, students will create word problems for their classmates to solve.

Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics)

By Jennifer Gayford.

What time is it?

Students will learn to recognize analog and digital clocks. They will also gain skills to tell time to the hour on both clocks.

Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics)

By Alysia Baysden.

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Collecting the rays

In this lesson, students explore how variations in solar collectors affect the energy absorbed. They make rectangular prisms that have the same volume but different linear dimensions. Students investigate relationships among the linear dimensions, the area,... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 7–8 Mathematics)

Provided by: Illuminations

Journey in Time

Time to teach time? Check out these lessons and information for teachers about the history of time, seasons, and Foucault's pendulum. (Learn more)

Format: website/lesson plan

Provided by: Franklin Institute

Single runner

In this activity, students use a software simulation of one runner along a track. They control the speed and starting point of the runner, watch the race, examine a graph, and analyze the time-versus-distance relationship. This activity helps students understand,... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Mathematics)

Provided by: Illuminations

Understanding distance, speed, and time relationships using simulation software

This e-example includes a software simulation of two runners along a track. Students can control the speeds and starting points of the runners, watch the race, and examine a graph of the time-versus-distance relationship. The computer simulation uses a... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Mathematics)

Provided by: Illuminations