I am proud to say that my students (all first graders) can tell time to the minute. I just posted two
brand new SMARTboard products for teaching analog clocks and time that will help you teach them how to do this. Both products took me a long time because of
the graphics—clocks are labor intensive!
The Common Core
Messed Up!
The first product is intended to help you teach time. I fully believe that the Common Core messed
up in this area. No other area of math
do we ask students to memorize over learning the concept, yet that is what we
do in first grade for time. We ask kids
to memorize what hour and half hours look like without explaining anything.
Brainpop Jr.
Responds!
I believe in teaching the concept over memorization. So I created a SMARTboard that helps you
break it down and show kids that analog clocks are really two clocks (the
minute clock and the hour clock) on top of each other! I also contacted Brainpop Jr. and told them
that one of their videos seems misleading.
In it, Annie says that when the big hand is pointing at the 3, it means
15 minutes. NO! It is NOT pointing at the 3, it is pointing
PAST the 3 at where the 15 on the other side is or is assumed to be! They responded to say that it was an
interesting way of teaching it and they are looking into it. Lol. To read my original post, click here: Measuring Time
My Teaching Time Presentation SMARTboard will help you
explain this to your students and they can come up to the board to slide the
hour clock over the minute clock and Voila!
An analog clock! I break the
whole explanation down to make your job easier.
You can preview/buy it here:
It also comes with “My Time Book” and 8 leveled
assessments/worksheets.
Perfect Math Center
To complement the Teaching Time Presentation or use as a
standalone practice in your math center, I created a 25 slide, multi-level,
Time practice SMARTboard. I don’t know
about you, but it took me 4 years to let my kids use the SMARTboard as a center. First, I didn’t have enough good SMARTboard
files to use as centers. Next, I was not
comfortable with the distraction it could cause. But now I have the files (especially for word
work centers) and I found out that with 3 other computers and an Ipad, the SMARTboard isn’t the novelty that it once
was. I really enjoy creating centers
that last a week, and I think that you could probably get 2 weeks out of this
center.
The product is called SMARTboard Interactive Telling Time
and can be found here:
There is a bundle for both of them here:
P.S. If you missed the free clock template, you can find it here: Blank Clock Template
