2. Teacher: Maria Fernández Ribera
School: Anselm Clavé (Cornellà)
Class: Year 4
Number of students: 25
Time: 9.00 AM
Subject: Maths
Title of lesson: Analogue and digital
time
Length: 60’
3. Year 4 children have worked on the measurement of
time before and they know how to say times in
English, Spanish and Catalan.
During the lesson I have designed, they learnt about
the difference between Analogue and Digital Time.
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4. LEARNING OBJECTIVES
-To know, say and make difference between analogue and digital time.
-To know and say vocabulary about: different parts of the day, numbers
from 1 to 60.
-To know and express the way of telling time (digital and analogue)
-To notice and understand differences and similarities between
Catalan, Spanish and English way of telling the time.
-To acquire maths concepts as half/halves, quarter and whole
5. COMPETENCES INVOLVED
-Linguistic and communicative
-Mathematic
-Competence about knowledge and interaction with
physical world.
-Information and digital
-Learn to learn competence
ASSESSMENT
Children will be able to:
-know, say and make differences between analogue
and digital time.
-know and express way of telling time.
-know vocabulary about parts of days and numbers.
-use maths concepts as half/halves, quarter and whole.
-understand differences and similarities between
Catalan, Spanish and English way of telling time.
-participate and be respectful with their classmates.
-work in an autonomous way.
6. 1. WHICH CLOCK OR WATCH DO YOU HAVE? (warm-up activity)
Teacher showed a digital and analogue clock.
What clock have you got? Have you seen any difference?
Do you know how to change analogue time into digital time?
LESSON DEVELOPMENT
7. 2. DETECTIVE’S TIME
We all saw the following web:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/maths/shape_space/time/read/1/
There was an example of changing analogue times into digital times. How can we do it?
They did the following exercise. After sharing their answers, we all saw the web and check
times.
Children could click this button in
case they had no idea about how to
change times. They could see two
clocks and experiment with them.
http://www.mathsisfun.
com/time-clocks-
analog-digital.html
8. I tried to help children to understand and check their knowledge…
9. Do you want to play?
3. COMPLETE A MISSION GAME
I divided students into two teams. We playes games 1 and 4 from the web
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/maths/shape_space/time/play/
There is a mission that must be completed. Which team will be the winner?
10. Plan your TV evening
1. Read the worksheet
carefully.
2. You have got 1 hour
and a half (90
minutes) to watch
TV programmes.
3. Complete the grid.
4. Change into
analogue time. Add
AM or PM.
4. WORK IN PAIRS
5. TIME TO REFLECT
What have we learnt? Reflect upon it
11. Those have been the activities children have done in class. It was a 60’
lesson, very intense and funny.
Do you want to know my thoughts after implementing it?
THE TEACHER
•It has been hard to explain and give a maths lesson in
English. Sometimes I have experienced lack of
confidence.
•I have planned too many things for one hour lesson.
•I love giving a different subject in English and seeing
my students
•I have found lots of resources by means of surfing the
net, above all, from English schools webs and I like
trying to find out different and attractive resources and
leaving apart the Class Book.
•If I had to teach one subject in English, I would ask for
help, at least, I would need a workmate. Moreover, I
would like to work with half class.
•It is weird to listen to myself speaking in English
STUDENTS
•Students are so motivated when they are using
English with a purpose.
•It has been hard for them the use of certain
mathematical concepts and they are not accustomed
to them.
•They enjoyed the lesson and asked me for more.
Apart from that, the fact of using an interactive game
make them feel so enthusiastic and, at the same time,
hard to control.
12. THE LESSON
•In my opinion, I have planned a quite good lesson.
•Warming up and detective time (brainstorming about digital and
analogue time and pupils tried to change analogue into digital time
before my explanation): Students like guessing and it is a good way to
catch their attention. They have participated and work in groups.
•Core of the lesson (having a look at the web and I have spoken about
AM and PM, analogue and digital time): they seemed to understand very
well the explanation but the web I have choosen has been a little bit
difficult.
•The game was fantastic and useful for them.
•Worksheet: They loved working on the TV programmes they usually
watch and work in groups make them speak in English and try to
communicate themselves.
•Summing up: It is a very good activity to make them think about what
they have just learnt.
