Time - O'clock and half past - Presentation

The educational materials provided focus on teaching children how to tell the time, specifically concentrating on 'o'clock' and 'half past' times. The presentation includes a series of interactive activities designed to help students understand and practise these concepts. In one activity, students are asked to identify which clock shows 5 o'clock and explain their reasoning to a partner. Another activity challenges them to determine the position of the minute hand at half past the hour. The lessons encourage students to use physical movements, such as showing with their arms where the minute hand would be, to reinforce learning. Additionally, they are tasked with matching daily activities, like lunchtime and school start, to the correct times on a clock.

As the lesson progresses, students engage in more complex reasoning exercises where they must spot mistakes made by fictional characters in telling the time. These exercises help children to critically evaluate and correct time-telling errors, such as misunderstanding the position of the hour hand at half past times. Further activities include drawing the hands on a clock face to represent given times and writing down the time shown on various clocks. The presentation ends with a discussion about the features of a clock face, such as the function of the hour and minute hands and their positions at different times. This comprehensive approach ensures that students not only learn to tell the time but also understand the underlying principles of how a clock works.