Teaching How to Tell Time to the Hour and Half Hour?

You’re in the right place! The Teach Starter Team has been hard at work building new, ready-to-use teaching resources to help you teach your first and second-year students how to tell time! This time, we’ve created an all-in-one teaching tool to help your students tell time to the nearest hour and half-hour.

Reading analogue clocks and determining the time can be challenging for young students. This teaching slide deck aims to help you guide them step-by-step through the process and give your students fun opportunities to practise their time-telling skills.

Learning to Tell Time on a Clock Can Be Fun!

This teaching presentation has a variety of teaching components to help your students tell time on a clock. It includes both instructional content and interactive activities that gamify learning and make it fun for your students. Here are just a few of the components you’ll find in this slideshow.

• Step-by-Step Making a Paper Clock Activity
• Identifying the Parts of a Clock Slides
• Telling Time to the Hour Quick Checks
• Telling Time to the Half-Hour Quick Checks
• Multiple Choice Telling Time Quiz
• Telling Time to the Hour and Half Hour ‘This or That?’ Movement Game

How to Use Our Teaching Presentation in Your Classroom

A team of dedicated, experienced educators created this resource to support your maths instruction in the classroom. To use this resource, simply project the slides onto a screen! Teach your lesson using the teaching slides and work through problems as a class by having students record their answers in their notebooks or mini whiteboards. When you get to the interactive activities, get your students up, moving, and telling time to the hour and half hour!

Download Your Time on the Hour and Half-Hour Lessons

This resource is available as an easy-to-use Google Slides or PowerPoint Resource file. To get your copy, click the dropdown arrow on the download button to select the file format you prefer. Make your copy, project the slides, and start teaching today!

This resource was created by Lisamarie Del Valle, a Teach Starter Collaborator.

Make time for telling time with these teaching resources and class activities:

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Telling the Time Bingo – Hour and Half-hour

Thirty different bingo cards using analogue clocks.

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Time to the Hour and Half Hour Match-Up

Match cards with three different representations of time to practise reading clocks and time in their written form.