Time - Telling time to 5 minutes - Presentation

In this interactive lesson, students learn to tell the time to the nearest five minutes. The lesson begins with a challenge to count in multiples of five up to sixty, a skill crucial for understanding the increments on a clock face. Pupils are encouraged to identify patterns that will help them when telling the time. This foundational knowledge is then applied in a series of activities where students read and set times on analog clocks, starting with identifying times such as '5 minutes past 11' and '10 minutes past 3'. The lesson is structured to build confidence in reading clocks incrementally, reinforcing the concept that there are five minutes between each number on a clock.

As the lesson progresses, students delve into more complex tasks, such as matching clocks to written times, including '25 minutes to 12' and '10 minutes to 5', and determining the position of the hour and minute hands for given times. They also engage in reasoning exercises, where they must justify whether statements about time are correct, such as whether 'seven lots of five minutes' equates to 'half an hour'. The lesson includes independent work where students write times shown on clocks and draw hands to indicate specified times. Throughout the lesson, discussion prompts encourage critical thinking about the concepts of 'past' and 'to' when telling time, and how to count around the clock in different ways, ensuring a well-rounded understanding of time-telling.