Drag, Drop, and Discover How to Tell Time to 5 Minutes

Get ready to ditch those paper and pencil resources and move your math instruction into the 21st century with brand-new digital learning tools from Teach Starter! This year, we’ve been busy building up our selection of digital learning tools to help your students master a variety of math standards, starting with Telling Time!

No-Prep & Paperless Telling Time Practice Activities

This downloadable digital learning tool is a no-prep/no-paper resource designed to help your students master the ability to tell time to the nearest five minutes. It includes eleven interactive slides that are perfect for use as independent learning activities for your students needing extra practice with telling time to the five-minute mark. This interactive slide deck includes the following telling time activities.

• Read the time on analog clocks to the nearest five minutes
• Read word problems and calculate ending times by adding minutes in five-minute increments (under 15 minutes)
• Drag and drop digital clocks to matching analog clocks
• Complete patterns by identifying the clock that shows the next five-minute increment in time
• Tell time to reveal a hidden image

Using this resource, students will drag, drop, type, and match objects to master the ability to tell time to the nearest five minutes.

Download and Go! Student-Centered Math Lessons are Here!

This resource requires no prep from you other than needing to be assigned to Google Classroom or another LMS system. Students will open the file in Google Slides and keep the presentation in EDIT mode to interact with the components. If they attempt to use presentation mode, they cannot interact with the pieces. To get your resource, simply click download, and you’ll be prompted to make your copy. From there, assign and go!

This resource was created by Kendall Britnell, a teacher in Colorado and Teach Starter Collaborator.

Don’t stop there! Your telling time lesson plans wouldn’t be complete without these activities and teaching resources too: 

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Free Telling Time to the Minute - Worksheet Pack

Practice telling time to the minute by writing the digital time and drawing the hands on analog clocks.

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Parts of a Clock Anchor Chart

Familiarize students with the analog clock face, hands and other parts of a clock with a printable poster created for the primary classroom.