Time Journal: Digital, Analog and Words

Time Journal: Digital, Analog and Words

Here's a real world application and simple math project that you can add to your time unit in grades 1 and 2.

The activity encourages students to record their routine activities over a span of one day: getting up, getting to school, eating, lunch, getting, home, eating dinner, going to bed, etc. They are tasked with noting down the specific time of each event in three ways

1. Writing the digital time

2. Filling out an analog clock face

3. Documenting the time verbally using words

This multi-faceted approach reinforces the classroom learning of time and makes it meaningful to students because it is about their personal life!

How to Use:

• Rounding off a unit on telling time – assign this journal as a homework assignment and summative task. It could be a great artifact for students' math portfolios.

• Data interpretation in class - collect answers from all students' journals to create a bar graph illustrating commonalities or differences in routines. For example, make a graph about when the people in our class go to bed.

What's Included:

The two-page printable PDF consists of eight digital clocks, eight analog clocks, and eight slots for writing down times in words.

A reflective question at the end asks students what their personal favourite time of day is and why.

Grades to Use With:

This simple math project is designed to be accessible to students in grades 1 and 2. It could also be used in a special education classroom in the upper elementary grades.

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