🕒 What to Teach
- Concept of Time (Past, Present, Future)
- Reading a Clock (Analog & Digital)
- Units of Time (Seconds, Minutes, Hours, Days, Weeks, Months, Years)
- Understanding AM and PM
- Using Calendar (Days, Weeks, Months)
- Simple Time Conversion (e.g. 60 minutes = 1 hour)
- Word Problems involving Time
🎯 Teaching Strategies
- Use of real wall and digital clocks in the classroom
- Interactive time-matching games
- Roleplay: Daily routine using time references
- Classroom time journal (record school day activities with time)
- Worksheets with draw-the-hands-on-the-clock activities
- Calendar making activities
- Time-telling songs and rhymes
📘 Sample Lesson Plan (Week 1)
- Day 1: Introduction to Time (Clock parts + Hands)
- Day 2: Reading Time by the Hour
- Day 3: Half Hour and Quarter Hour
- Day 4: Word Problems on Daily Routine
- Day 5: Draw & Tell (students present their day in time format)
❓ Important Questions
- What are the different units of time?
- How many minutes are there in 3 hours?
- What does the short hand on a clock show?
- What is the difference between AM and PM?
- If school starts at 9:00 AM and ends at 3:00 PM, how long is the school day?
- Draw the hands of a clock showing 2:30.
📝 Same-Type Practice Questions (Fill in the Blanks)
- There are __ minutes in 1 hour.
- The clock shows the time as __ o’clock.
- There are __ hours in a day.
- We eat lunch around __ PM.
- There are __ days in a week.
🔄 Mixed-Type Questions
- Match the following:
1 hour — A. 24 hours
1 day — B. 60 minutes
- Solve: If a train leaves at 4:00 PM and reaches at 6:30 PM, how long is the journey?
- Draw clock hands for 5:45.
- Write your daily schedule using AM and PM correctly.
- Which time is later: 2:00 PM or 10:00 AM?
🧩 Additional Mixed Practice Questions
- What time will it be 2 hours after 11:00 AM?
- Draw clock hands for 7:15.
- Circle the correct answer: School starts at (AM / PM)
- Calculate: 1 day = __ hours, so 3 days = __ hours
- Match the correct duration:
- 1 week — A. 365 days
- 1 year — B. 7 days
- Write 3 activities you do in the morning and 3 in the evening with time