Grade 1 Lesson plan
Meadowbrook's Rain Gauge Watch: A Grade 1 Half-Hour Clock Lesson
A 40-minute grade 1 lesson where students tell time to the half hour on a classroom clock while tracking a simulated rain gauge during a storm-watch activity.
Common Core Math · Grade 1
1.MD.B.3 Tell and write time to the hour and half-hour
Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.
Why water teaches this standard well
Students read a classroom clock to know when it is time to check the rain gauge each half hour during a storm-tracking activity, writing down the hour or half-hour each reading was taken. Tying a water observation to a specific time gives clock reading a genuine purpose.
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5 materials aligned to 1.MD.B.3
Lesson plans
Worksheets
Grade 1 Worksheet
Sparrowgate Playground Puddle: Half-Hour Times on Three Drawings
A grade 1 art worksheet on observational drawing and half-hour clock times, built on three drawings of a schoolyard puddle drying in the sun.
Grade 1 Worksheet
Quarry Lane's Storm Drain Crew: A Grade 1 Clock Worksheet
Twelve grade 1 items where students read and write hour and half-hour times from the log a street crew keeps while checking storm drains during a rainstorm.
Grade 1 Worksheet
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.
Classroom activities
Grade 1 Classroom activity
Drops on the Cold Jar at Pipersfield School
A grade 1 activity in which teams check three sealed jars at the hour and half hour, write each time, and find out why only the ice-water jar turns wet outside.