1. What TIME is it?
1st Grade Unit
Caitlin McGowan
Spring 2014

2. •Technology Integration Rationale
Why does it make sense to incorporate various uses of technology into teaching a unit
on telling time?
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Technology helps promote a positive shift towards more project
based, hands on learning, and away from lecture based
teaching.
Learning how to tell time can be made much richer and
engaging by helping students explore clocks with the aid of
technology.
This presentation shows how teachers can integrate technology
such as the SMART board, instructional videos, podcasts, online
games, and educational apps into a unit on telling time to
overall build a responsive classroom.

3. •Technology Integration Rationale
What is gained/added by integrating technology into the teaching a unit on telling
time?
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Engagement: Using technology involves students in the learning
process. Students using technology become active in the
learning process instead of passive listeners.
Access to Information/Communication: The Internet provides
access to a variety of informational sources, media, and
communications.
Differentiation: Technology provides greater opportunities for
differentiation for students. Computers targeted at multimedia
applications showing pictures, sounds, and videos are beneficial
to the learning styles of various learners.

4. •Internet Content
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All of the websites used throughout this project are reliable
sources of information and are related to teaching and learning
how to tell time.
Clicking on the graphics found throughout the presentation will
bring you to the original websites from which the materials
were taken from.
URLs will also be cited in the provided notes section on each
slide of the PowerPoint.

5. •Blogs
Two collaborative blogs written and created by 1st grade teachers to share their
teaching ideas with others.
First grade w.o.w
What the teacher wants

6. •Pinterest
Telling Time Boards

7. •Podcast
Learning With Little Hands: Telling Time Podcast
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Teachers can play this podcast for students to help introduce
the analog clock to their students.
While listening to this podcast, students can have a small
Judy Clock in front of them. This will give them the
opportunity to practice and explore the clock while they are
listening to the podcast.
Also, teachers can share the link with the students’ parents
for access to listen to the podcast at home.
To listen to the podcast, click on the microphone icon below!

8. •Instructional Video
Kahn Academy (Click on the image to link to the video)

9. •Instructional Video
Common Core 4 Kids: Telling Time (Click on the graphic to watch the YouTube video)

10. •Kidspiration

11. •Teaching Materials
Disney Time learning worksheet on telling time to the hour.
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“Memorable Moments”
This worksheet helps
students practice the
concept of telling time to
the hour.
The students will be asked
to circle the corresponding
words that tell the time
shown on the analog
clocks.
Click on the worksheet to
link to the website.

12. •Teaching Materials
Popular telling time books that can be used in the classroom.

13. •Teaching Materials
A word search handout with vocabulary words relating to telling time and clocks.
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Time Word Search
This worksheet is a
great way for students
to become familiar with
the words and terms
relating to clocks and
telling time.

14. •There’s an app for that!
Three educational apps (approved by teachers, parents, and students)
designed to help children learn how to read an analog clock and tell time.
Click on each icon to download the app!
Telling Time Free
Interactive Telling
Time
Tell Time

15. •SMART Board Activity
“What time is it?” An interactive SMART Notebook lesson on time to the hour and
half-hour, followed by an introduction of time to the quarter hour and five minutes.

16. •Subject-Specific Internet-based Resource
Interactive Mathematics Investigations (Illuminations)
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Illuminations is an online
resource that provides standardsbased materials for teaching and
learning math.
“Grouchy Lessons of Time”
This lesson provides an
instructional plan along with
materials, assessments, and
extensions involving the concept
of time.
The activities provided help
students at different levels to
develop the skills in telling time.

17. •Uses of the Internet
Interactive Websites

18. •Uses of the Internet
Interactive Websites
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Click the graphics on the
right to link to the game!

19. •Uses of the Internet
Online Reference Materials
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“Daylight Saving Time is a way of
making better use of the daylight
in the evenings by setting the
clocks forward one hour during
the longer days of summer, and
back again in the fall.”

20. •Telling Time Rubric
Students could work in different activities that involve reading analog clocks such as: placing the numbers on
the clock, positioning the hands of the clock, and telling time to the hour and to the half hour.
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This rubric was
created with iRubric.
Using a rubric
provides several
advantages to both
teachers and
students.
To link to the website
click on the graphic.

21. •Web 2.0
Game Classroom
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“Stop the Clock” game
Directions: Drag the 5 digital times to the correct analog clocks.
Press "Stop the Clock" to record your time.
Click on the graphic to link to the website!

22. •Web 2.0
Quizinator
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Quizinator is a great online resource for teachers!
On the Quizinator website, teachers can easily create
worksheets, study sheets, exams, and quizzes for their
classroom.
Also, teachers can give access to team members and students
to download the documents they created.

23. •Web 2.0
Twiducate
What is it?
•A free online resource developed by educators for educators.
•Social networking for schools!
•Their overall goal is to create a place for teachers and students
to continue their learning outside of the classroom.
How does it work?
•Teachers can create their own online classroom.
•Students can log in with a private code developed by the
teacher.
•Teachers and students can #TellingTime to share inspirations,
ideas, thoughts, and reflections.

24. •SlideShare
This presentation can also be viewed on SlideShare by clicking the graphic below.