TELLING THE TIME UNIT PLAN - YEAR 1 AND YEAR 2

Lesson 2: Telling the Time to the Half Hour (Analogue

Clock)
Maths Units of Measurement Time

Disclaimer: This Starter Sheet should be regarded as a guide only. Teachers should make adjustments in accordance with the individual learning
needs of their students.

INTRODUCTION
DURATION
A 60 minute lesson in which students will tell the time on an
60 min analogue clock to the half hour.

LESSON PLAN

This lesson contains a link to an external video. Please watch the video prior
to presenting this lesson to ensure that the content is appropriate for your
students. View the video here

Tuning In
Take the class outside and find some concrete. Use chalk to draw a
large circle. As a class, add numbers to the circle to create an
TEACHING RESOURCE analogue clock with no hands. Ask two students to lie down inside the
12 Hour Clock Template circle to become the hands of the clock. Ask the class:

A template for an interactive 12 hour
clock that displays hours, minutes and
wording.
Who should be the minute hand? Why? And the hour hand?
Where should the hour hand point to show 1 o’clock?
Where should the minute hand point?

Repeat the activity until all of the students have had a turn.

Teacher Instruction
Watch the Telling Time to the Half Hour video on YouTube. After
watching, display the 12 Hour Clock Template on the board. Ask the
students:

What do you notice about the template?

TEACHING RESOURCE What can you see in the blue circle?
Analogue Time to the Half Hour – How many minutes in one hour? How many minutes in half an
Worksheet hour?
A worksheet to use when teaching
analogue times in o'clock and half past. Using the template, show three o’clock. Explain that, when the minute
hand is pointing to the 12, we always say ‘o’clock’. Because the hour
hand is pointing to the 3, it is three o’clock.
Use the template to show half past three. Explain that, when the
CURRICULUM CODES minute hand is pointing to the 6, we always say ‘half past’. Because the
Australian Curriculum hour hand is halfway between the 3 and the 4, it is half past three.
As a class, revise some o’clock and half past times using the template.
ACMMG020 Tell time to the half-hour.

Guided/Independent Learning
NSW Curriculum
Call out different o’clock and half past times for the students to make
MA1-13MG Time - describes, compares and
on their clock templates (made in the previous lesson). Ask the
orders durations of events, and
students to say the times aloud each time.
reads half- and quarter-hour
time.

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Victorian Curriculum Provide the students with a copy of the Analogue Time Worksheet
(O’clock and Half Past). Monitor and support the students as they
VCMMG096 Tell time to the half-hour.
independently complete the worksheet.

Wrapping Up
Play a game of ‘Around the World’. Ask the students to sit in a circle.
One student stands up behind another. Show them a time on the
clock template. If the student standing up says the time correctly first,
they move behind the next student. If the student who is sitting down
gets the answer correct first, they stand up behind the next student
and the student who was standing up now sits down in that spot. The
aim is for a student to get around all of the students in the class.

DIFFERENTIATION

Extending Students
Provide fast finishers with another copy of the Analogue Time
Worksheet (O'clock and Half Past) and ask them to make up their own
o'clock and half past times.

Supporting Students
Ask less confident students to draw o'clock times only, until they are
ready to move on to half past times.

MONITORING STUDENT UNDERSTANDING

used strategic whole class or individual questioning

observed student participation during learning activities
recorded student progress on a checklist
annotated student work samples
collected and reviewed student work samples
facilitated whole class or peer feedback sessions
encouraged student self-reflection
administered formal assessment tasks.

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