How to Tell and Write Time Using Analog and Digital Clocks
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Subject Area: Mathematics (B.E.S.T.) | Grade Level: 1
Lesson Length: 45 minutes
Keywords/Tags: Telling time, Analog Clocks, Digital Clocks, Half Hour, Hour
Lesson Description: In this lesson, students will be introduced to how to tell time on analog and digital clocks as well as identify the written form of the time (i.e. 6:30, four o'clock, etc.). This learning will take place through an engaging video, a quiz to test their knowledge, and an assortment of additional resources that are available to them. By the end of this lesson, students will be familiar with and able to carry out telling and writing time with analog and digital clocks.

  • MA.1.M.2.1 Using analog and digital clocks, tell and write time in hours and half-hours.
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Video : How to Tell and Write Time (Digital and Analog Clocks)
Instructions: Please watch the following video as many times as you need to before moving on in the lesson. Understanding the video is very important because all other parts of the lesson are about this content.
Description: Learn all about time on digital and analog clocks!
Quiz : Time on Digital and Analog Clocks
Instructions: Please complete this quiz by choosing the correct answer for each question. You can take this quiz as many times needed.
Question #1
True or False: When telling time on a digital clock, all we have to do is read through the numbers.
Question #2
When a digital clock has :00 as the minutes, do we say "zero zero"?
Question #3

Which of the following times is two o'clock written in digital clock form?

Question #4

In the video, one of the digital clock examples was five-thirty. Which of the following times is five-thirty written in digital clock form?

Question #5
True or False: Analog clocks have two hands. The smaller hand is the hour hand and the bigger hand is the minute hand.
Question #6

What does it mean when the minute hand is pointed at 12?

Question #7
When the minute hand is pointing at the 6, does that mean thirty minutes?
Question #8

If the hour hand is between two numbers, what number is the hour?

Question #9

An analog clock has the hour hand between the 8 and 9, and the minute hand pointing directly at the 6. What time is on the clock?

Question #10

An analog clock has the hour hand pointing directly at the 4, and the minute hand pointing directly at the 12. What time is it?

Resources : Additional Resources
Instructions: Please see additional external resources below. Feel free to visit each link to learn more about telling time and to get extra practice!
Telling Time Reading
With this reading, you can review analog and digital clocks, how they work, and the vocabulary we use when talking about them.
Telling Time Game
Play a fun game to practice telling time on analog clocks!
Rock and Tell the Time on the Clock Song
Here is a fun song to help you remember the different hours on an analog clock!
Khan Academy Practice Questions
Here you can do 7 more practice questions about telling time on analog clocks.