- Objectives
- To
introduce children to digital clocks.
- To introduce children to
analog clocks (those with moving hands)
- To introduce children to the idea of time passing.
- To introduce children to units of time (second,
minute, hour)
- To introduce children to “telling” time.
- Introduction
- Read TELLING TIME by Jules Older
- Ask if they know
how we tell time.
- What if we didn’t have clocks, watches,
TVs?
- Talk about the sun getting brighter when
it is time to get up, straight up in the sky when it is lunch,
going
down
at
bedtime.
- Some mention of sundials may be made.
- What
about a rainy day with no sun? Using hunger or sleepiness
to judge passage of time.
- Counting such as for “Hide
and Seek”.
- Does time change even if you can’t
see a clock? Even if the clock is unplugged or battery
out or just stopped?
- How do we measure time?
- Second
- Minute - sixty seconds
- Hour - sixty minutes
or 3600 seconds
- Use one of the timers to see how accurately
they can guess
or count a given length of time (1 minute
or under
or they will
get restless)
- Show
the large Discovery Digital clock (or
Owl Clock)
- Explain that the two hands
are different
sizes, big and little with the big
hand
for the minutes and the
little
hand for the hours.
- Using the
hands,
explain about the
big
hand is on the 12 for
the
hours or “o’clocks”.
Show
how
it moves
and
we get 12:00,
1:00,
2:00,
etc.
- Explain
how
each
time
the
big
hand
moves
to
a
number 5 minutes
have
passed.
Count
by
5s
as
you
move
the
big
hand
around
the
60
minutes
for
the
hour.
- Now
uncover the
digital part
at the
bottom to
show the
time digitally.
- Explain
how
to read
the numbers.
- Go through
the 5
minute counts
of the
hour again,
but this
time press
his feet
each time
so they
can see
the time
displayed both ways.
- Program
- Hand
out an assortment of clocks (yellow ones, white ones from Grouchy
Ladybug) Have children in groups or pairs as needed, so
they have access to a clock.
- Give a time (an even hour is easiest)
and see if any can set their
clock to that time.
- Have them each set a time on the clock.
Then you call out an hour or “o’clock” and
have anyone with that time hold up their clock to show the
others.
- Show the different timers and explain how some
count up and some count down. Children are probably used to
the ones counting down for time out
or for waiting for cookies to bake or some other counting.
- Do an activity for counting up. Set the timer,
have them sing a song or whatever and see how long it actually
takes.
- Sit without making a sound, or stand as
a statue, or some similar activity. Time how long it actually
lasted, then ask them how long they
thought it actually was. Talk a bit about the
differences (yes, will be different in most cases).
- Divide
the group into teams of two. Give each pair a timer,
making one the time keeper. Now
have the non-timers
do some activity (maybe
running to the wall and back, doing some
jumping jacks, singing the alphabet, etc.) and have
the timer see
how long it took the partner to complete
the activity. Compare times from different
teams. Now switch
time keeper and doer and try another activity
- Now
that all the timing devices have been introduced, spread them
out and let the
children explore.
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