Lesson Plan
Tick, Tick, Tock!
Get your students up and moving with this lesson about telling time to the nearest hour. With a twist on Duck, Duck, Goose, your students will be able to have fun while learning.
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Get ready to move and learn at the same time with the lesson Tick, Tick, Tock! This first-grade lesson uses a variation on a classic playground game to help students get comfortable with analog clocks. Students will draw a large clock in an open area and sit in a circle. Then, they will practice telling time on the fly—as they run around the outside of the clock and take turns becoming the “minute hand.” Kids will show what they learned by filling in worksheets about telling time to the hour.
Learning Objectives
Students will be able to tell time to the hour.
Introduction
(5 minutes)- Show an analog clock to the class and ask students for its name, and what it does.
- After students get a chance to answer, hopefully responding with it is a kind of clock that uses hands that rotate to tell time, point to the short hand, or hour hand, and ask students to name it and to explain its purpose. Repeat questioning with the long hand, or minute hand.
- Tell the class that today they will tell time to the hour by becoming human analog clocks.