Lesson Plans Course: Mastering Skills & Concepts: Course I Module ...

Lesson PlansCourse: Mastering Skills & Concepts: Course IModule: Geometry and MeasurementUnit:MeasurementSession: Clock and Calendar TimeLearning ObjectivesRecognizing and using ordinal numbers.Investigating the days of the week.Using analog and digital clocks to tell time to the nearesthour and half-hour.OverviewSome astronauts are planning a mission to the Moon. Wemark each day of the mission on a calendar. Then we fix thespace shuttle's clock and learn how to tell time.KeywordsCalendarYesterdayTodayTomorrowMinuteHourMinute handHour handTeaching StrategiesPrior to the sessionRecite the Mother Goose poem "Monday's Child" and askstudents about their own birthdays.Talk about the day and the night and how we can tellwhich is which.At the end of the sessionGive students the names of the days of the week and havethem put them in order starting with any day.Line up twenty students and call out a number from 1 to20. Have a student name the corresponding ordinalnumber and move into that position in the line.Have students create a clock using paper plates andmanipulable hands and then manipulate the hands to showvarious times on the hour and half-hour.© 2001 Riverdeep Interactive Learning Limited. All rights reserved.