Looking for a hands-on way to bring time-telling to life for your elementary school students? In this engaging lesson, your students will join forces with Dash to draw analog clocks on a whiteboard mat, depicting different times. Learners will practice telling time in hours, half-hours, and even minutes. Not only will they sharpen their time-telling skills and deepen their understanding of analog clocks, they’ll also get to use coding and robotics skills to engage with this hands-on activity!
CCSS Standards Addressed
1.MD.3
- Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.
2.MD.7
- Tell and write time to the nearest five minutes, using a.m. and p.m.
3.MD.1
- Tell and write time to the nearest minute.
- Choose and print these worksheets we put together for students to complete. There is a worksheet for half hour, 5 minute, and 1 minute times.
- Attach the Sketch Kit to Dash, or have students create their own.
- For an extra challenge, code Dash to draw a circle. HERE is a blog post we put together with tips and solutions on how to do this.
- On the Sketch Mat or large piece of paper, draw a large circle. Then, have students write the numbers of the analog clock inside the circle.
- Students will choose 3 times from their worksheet to program Dash to draw the hands on the clock to represent the time. Have Dash say the time it’s representing
Extra Challenges:
AM & PM Time Drawing Challenge
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Provide students with different AM and PM time scenarios (e.g., “Wake up at 7:00 AM,” “Eat dinner at 6:30 PM”).
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Students will choose a time, then program Dash to draw the time
Elapsed Time Drawing Challenge
- Give students elapsed time word problems (e.g., “You start reading at 3:15 PM and read for 45 minutes. What time do you finish?”).
- Students code Dash to draw the hands to represent both the start time and the end time.
Time Zone Exploration
- Have students research different time zones and create a world clock.
- Give them a scenario: “If it’s 3 PM in New York, what time is it in London?”
- Using a map, students track time zone changes.
- Extra Challenge: Code Dash to draw different clock faces that represent various locations
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