This lesson plan teaches 1st through 4th grade students how to tell time using a Smart Board. The teacher will display a clock on the Smart Board and link different educational activities and games to each hour. Students will volunteer to select hours on the clock to access the corresponding activities. The teacher will begin with just hours and then progress to including minutes as well. The goals are for students to understand how clocks work and be able to tell time down to the minute. The lesson incorporates Universal Design principles by including goal setting, multiple means of presentation to engage different learners, and giving students choice in selecting times for peers.
2. Target Learners
My target grade level is 1st through 4th grade
This will include students around the ages of 6 years
old to 11 years old
I am creating my own lesson plan so I will not be
linking any lesson from the Smart Exchange website
3. Overview of Utilizing Resources
In my activity on the Smart Board I would be
trying to teach my students how to tell time. I
would utilize my Smart Board to have a fun
and interactive lesson that keeps my students
engaged and eager to learn more. I would
adapt my lesson at a basic level, since I am
teaching younger kids. I would include a
picture of a hand clock, and I would have
links to different activities and games
corresponding with each hour of the clock. I
would use my knowledge of safe and
reputable sources to pick out the websites I’d
link to the activities. They would be helpful
and informative to my class.
4. Overview cont.
I would begin the lesson by explaining what the hands
on the clock represent, which direction they rotate in,
and how the clock functions. This would give the
students background knowledge of how a clock works
before the lesson begins. Then, I would set goals for the
class, outlining what I hope for them to achieve in this
lesson. The overall goal would be to have a basic
understanding of the way that a clock works and how
to tell the time down to the minute. I would then ask
for volunteers to come up to the Smart Board and select
a certain hour that I have selected (ex. 3:00). Once the
student clicks on the 3 on the clock they will be
redirected to an activity about time from a different
website. This will give the students an incentive to focus
and choose the correct answer. Eventually, I will
progress to adding in minutes along with the hour and
the students will repeat the same process.
5. Relation to Universal Design
This lesson relates to Universal Design because I
include goal setting into my lesson plan. This helps
to give a more productive outlook on the lesson. It
will give the students specific points to work on so
they do not become overwhelmed and are able to
focus on the goals. I would provide multiple means
of presentation throughout the lesson. This is what
the different time activities would be include (ex.
Matching, counting, drawing, etc.) The reason for
doing this is so this lesson does not exclude
different types of learners. It is supposed to include
and engage everyone. There would be points in the
lesson where I allow the students to choose what
time they want their peers to find so that they have
the power of choice and feel more confident, in
control and independent in their skills.
