Time

Activity: Name that Time!

Created by: Kimberly Downs

Activity Overview: Discuss with students what time means. Give examples of times they use in everyday life. Show students different examples of how time is kept, ex. digital clocks, analog clock, watches, etc. Discuss the difference of analog and digital time. Practice converting digital time to analog clocks on the hour and half-hour. Have the students use the analog time grid and draw a digital time card and move their Bee-bot to corresponding time. After the bee-bot is on correct corresponding time, have the students display the time on their own student analog clock.

Activity Objectives:
 * Students will understand the relationship between analog and digital time.
 * Student will recognize on the hour and half-hour time.
 * Students will verbalize on the hour and half-hour time.
 * Students will move the bee-bot to corresponding analog time by using the correct commands.
 * Students will be able to use own analog clock to move hands to matching time of the digital clock card.

Concepts/Standards:
 * Time (digital and analog)
 * Use technology to enhance learning and promote creativity
 * Recognize numbers and patterns
 * Identify concepts of earlier, before, later, and after.
 * Recognize that we live in a global community where time is relative.

Extensions/Adaptations:
 * Introduce concepts such as earlier, later, tomorrow, and yesterday.
 * Introduce quarter hours to students and create new grid and cards for practice.
 * Introduce the concept of the solar system and the earth’s rotation and its effect on time.

Literature:
 * The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle
 * Bats Around the Clock by Kathi Appelt and Melissa Sweet
 * Clocks and More Clocks by Pat Hutchins
 * Disney Discovery Series Presents: Telling Time
 * Me Counting Time from Seconds to Centuries by Joan Sweeney
 * Hickory, Dickory, Dock by Robin Muller

Songs:
 * Paper Clock (artist unknown)

Materials Needed:
 * Analog time grid
 * Digital Picture cards that correspond to analog clocks on grid
 * Bee-bot
 * Bee-bot command cards
 * Student analog clocks

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