What TIME is it?1st Grade Unit

Caitlin McGowanSpring 2014

• Technology helps promote a positive shift towards more project based, hands on learning, and away from lecture based teaching.

• Learning how to tell time can be made much richer and engaging by helping students explore clocks with the aid of technology.

• This presentation shows how teachers can integrate technology such as the SMART board, instructional videos, podcasts, online games, and educational apps into a unit on telling time to overall build a responsive classroom.

Why does it make sense to incorporate various uses of technology into teaching a unit on telling time?

•Technology Integration Rationale

• Engagement: Using technology involves students in the learning process. Students using technology become active in the learning process instead of passive listeners.

• Access to Information/Communication: The Internet provides access to a variety of informational sources, media, and communications.

• Differentiation: Technology provides greater opportunities for differentiation for students. Computers targeted at multimedia applications showing pictures, sounds, and videos are beneficial to the learning styles of various learners.

What is gained/added by integrating technology into the teaching a unit on telling time?

•Technology Integration Rationale

• All of the websites used throughout this project are reliable sources of information and are related to teaching and learning how to tell time.

• Clicking on the graphics found throughout the presentation will bring you to the original websites from which the materials were taken from.

• URLs will also be cited in the provided notes section on each slide of the PowerPoint.

•Internet Content

First grade w.o.w What the teacher wants

•BlogsTwo collaborative blogs written and created by 1st grade teachers to share their

teaching ideas with others.

Telling Time Boards •Pinterest

Learning With Little Hands: Telling Time Podcast•Podcast

• Teachers can play this podcast for students to help introduce the analog clock to their students.

• While listening to this podcast, students can have a small Judy Clock in front of them. This will give them the opportunity to practice and explore the clock while they are listening to the podcast.

• Also, teachers can share the link with the students’ parents for access to listen to the podcast at home.

• To listen to the podcast, click on the microphone icon below!

Kahn Academy (Click on the image to link to the video)•Instructional Video

Common Core 4 Kids: Telling Time (Click on the graphic to watch the YouTube video)•Instructional Video

•Kidspiration

• “Memorable Moments” • This worksheet helps

students practice the concept of telling time to the hour.

• The students will be asked to circle the corresponding words that tell the time shown on the analog clocks.

• Click on the worksheet to link to the website.

Disney Time learning worksheet on telling time to the hour.•Teaching Materials

Popular telling time books that can be used in the classroom.•Teaching Materials

• Time Word Search• This worksheet is a

great way for students to become familiar with the words and terms relating to clocks and telling time.

A word search handout with vocabulary words relating to telling time and clocks. •Teaching Materials

Telling Time Free Interactive Telling Time

Tell Time

•There’s an app for that!Three educational apps (approved by teachers, parents, and students) designed to help children learn how to read an analog clock and tell time. Click on each icon to download the app!

•SMART Board Activity“What time is it?” An interactive SMART Notebook lesson on time to the hour and half-

hour, followed by an introduction of time to the quarter hour and five minutes.

• Illuminations is an online resource that provides standards-based materials for teaching and learning math.

• “Grouchy Lessons of Time”• This lesson provides an

instructional plan along with materials, assessments, and extensions involving the concept of time.

• The activities provided help students at different levels to develop the skills in telling time.

Interactive Mathematics Investigations (Illuminations)•Subject-Specific Internet-based Resource

Interactive Websites •Uses of the Internet

• Click the graphics on the right to link to the game!

Interactive Websites •Uses of the Internet

• “Daylight Saving Time is a way of making better use of the daylight in the evenings by setting the clocks forward one hour during the longer days of summer, and back again in the fall.”

Online Reference Materials•Uses of the Internet

• This rubric was created with iRubric.

• Using a rubric provides several advantages to both teachers and students.

• To link to the website click on the graphic.

Students could work in different activities that involve reading analog clocks such as: placing the numbers on the clock, positioning the hands of the clock, and telling time to the hour and to the half hour.

•Telling Time Rubric

• “Stop the Clock” game• Directions: Drag the 5 digital times to the correct analog clocks.

Press "Stop the Clock" to record your time.• Click on the graphic to link to the website!

Game Classroom•Web 2.0

• Quizinator is a great online resource for teachers!• On the Quizinator website, teachers can easily create

worksheets, study sheets, exams, and quizzes for their classroom.

• Also, teachers can give access to team members and students to download the documents they created.

Quizinator•Web 2.0

What is it?•A free online resource developed by educators for educators. •Social networking for schools!•Their overall goal is to create a place for teachers and students to continue their learning outside of the classroom. How does it work? •Teachers can create their own online classroom. •Students can log in with a private code developed by the teacher. •Teachers and students can #TellingTime to share inspirations, ideas, thoughts, and reflections.

Twiducate•Web 2.0

This presentation can also be viewed on SlideShare by clicking the graphic below.•SlideShare