Worksheet Grade 1 Careers & CTE

Pipe Camera Day on Mudlark Road: A Grade 1 Clock Worksheet

A grade 1 careers worksheet where students read the hour and half-hour schedule of a worker who sends a camera through a storm drain pipe.

Grade: Grade 1
Subject: Careers & CTE
Material: Worksheet
Time: 25 min
Prep: No prep
Materials: None

Standards

1.MD.B.3 Common Core Math

Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.

How this material aligns: Items 1 through 5 ask students to read and write hour and half-hour times from the camera worker's day schedule, item 6 asks them to place the hands for a nine o'clock time, and item 7 asks them to match a half-hour time to the work being done at it.

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W.1.2 Common Core ELA

Write informative/explanatory texts in which they name a topic, supply some facts about the topic, and provide some sense of closure.

How this material aligns: Item 10 asks students to name the pipe camera worker's job and supply one fact about what the camera finds, with a closing sentence about the town.

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Objectives

Students will read hour and half-hour times from a worker's day schedule.
Students will write a half-hour time in numbers after hearing it in words.
Students will write one fact about what a pipe camera worker finds underground.

Vocabulary

Key words: camera, pipe, crack, report

Teacher overview

Most storm drain pipes are far too narrow for anyone to climb into, so a worker checks them for cracks by sending a small camera down the pipe on a cable and watching a screen in a van. This worksheet gives first graders that worker's whole day on Mudlark Road, in the fictional town of Mudlark, laid out in hours and half-hours so the schedule itself becomes the clock practice. The times run from parking the van in the morning to writing the report in the afternoon, and the last two items ask students to explain what the camera is for.

Pipe Camera Day on Mudlark Road: A Grade 1 Clock Worksheet — Grade 1 Careers & CTE

Name: ____________________________ Date: ______________

Student Worksheet

Tess works for the town water department. She sends a camera down the pipe that carries rain from the road to the creek. Here is her day on Mudlark Road.

8:00 Tess parks the van on Mudlark Road.
8:30 She lifts the round metal lid off the hole.
9:00 She sends the camera down into the pipe.
10:30 She finds a crack and stops the camera.
11:00 She marks the spot on the road with paint.
12:00 She eats lunch in the van.
1:00 She sends the camera into a second pipe.
2:30 She writes her report for the crew.

What time did Tess park the van?
What time did she send the camera down into the pipe?
She found the crack at half past ten. Write that time with numbers.
What time did she eat lunch in the van?
What time did she write her report?
Draw a clock that shows 9:00. Where does the long hand point?
At 8:30 Tess was busy. What was she doing?
Did Tess mark the spot before lunch or after lunch?
Name one thing the camera helps Tess find.
Name Tess's job. Write one fact about it. End with one sentence about the town.

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Answer Key

Answer: 8:00. The first line of the schedule shows Tess parking the van at eight in the morning.
Answer: 9:00. The camera goes down into the pipe at 9:00, half an hour after the lid comes off at 8:30.
Answer: 10:30. Half past ten is written with 10 for the hour and 30 for the half hour.
Answer: 12:00. Lunch comes right after Tess marks the spot on the road.
Answer: 2:30. The report is the last line of the schedule.
Answer: 12. On any clock showing an o'clock time, the long hand points straight up at the 12, and at 9:00 the short hand points at the 9.
Answer: Lifting the round metal lid off the hole. That is the 8:30 line of the schedule.
Answer: Before lunch. She marks the spot at 11:00 and eats lunch at 12:00.
Answer: A crack in the pipe. Accept any answer meaning damage or a blockage the crew cannot see from the road.
Answer: Answers vary. Accept "pipe camera worker" or "the person who sends the camera down the pipe," one fact such as "she watches a screen in the van," and a closing sentence about the town.

Differentiation

Support (below grade level)

Give these students a paper clock with movable hands and let them set each time before writing it. Highlight the matching schedule line for items 1, 2, 4, 5, and 7 so the reading task is narrowed to one row at a time.

Extension (above grade level)

Ask these students to add two more lines to Tess's day, one at a half-hour time and one at an o'clock time, saying what she does at each. Have them explain why a worker would want the report written before the end of the day.

ELL supports

Pre-teach lid, camera, crack, and report with a picture card for each, and point to the matching schedule line as you say the word. Provide the frame "She was ____" for item 7, and accept a copied time from the schedule for items 1 through 5.

Extensions

Set a classroom clock beside the schedule and move the hands through Tess's whole day, stopping at each line while a student reads it aloud. Ask students what they would want the camera to look at if it could go anywhere under the school.