Time - Telling the Time to the Minute - Presentation

In this interactive lesson, students are tasked with mastering the skill of telling the time to the nearest minute. The session begins with a review of basic time concepts, such as the number of minutes in an hour, and progresses to identifying the minute and hour hands on various clock faces. Students are then presented with a series of times, such as '8 minutes past 1' and '11 minutes past 9', and they are encouraged to read these times accurately from the clocks provided. The lesson continues with exercises that challenge the students to recognise and articulate times both past the hour and leading up to the next hour, enhancing their fluency and reasoning skills when it comes to time-telling.

Further activities involve drawing the hands on clocks to represent specific times, such as '4 minutes to 4' and '27 minutes past 5 o'clock', which helps to solidify the students' understanding of the clock's layout and the passage of time. Students also explore scenarios where a clock's hour or minute hand is missing, prompting them to use logical reasoning to deduce possible times based on the position of the remaining hand. Independent work segments of the lesson allow students to write down times shown on clocks and to match written times that are 45 minutes after the times shown on various clocks. The session concludes with a discussion that encourages students to delve deeper into the concepts of time, including comparing minutes past and to the hour, and understanding the reference of the hour hand when it lies between two numbers.