Virginia SOL 1.MG.3.a
The Standard
Identify different tools to measure time including clocks (analog and digital) and calendar.
Virginia Standards of Learning for Mathematics · The student will demonstrate an understanding of the concept of passage of time (to the nearest hour and half-hour) and the calendar.
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students recognize and name common tools used to track time. They match clocks with time of day and calendars with days, weeks, and months.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students correctly name an analog clock, digital clock, and calendar from pictures or real objects. They explain that clocks track time within a day, while calendars track days, weeks, and months.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may call every time tool a clock. They may think calendars show the time of day, or mistake a digital clock for a calculator.
How to Assess It
- Show pictures of an analog clock, digital clock, calendar, and ruler. Ask students to circle the time tools and state what each tracks.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Have students sort picture cards of clocks, calendars, rulers, and scales into time tools and not-time tools.
Ask, "Would you use a clock or calendar to find your birthday, lunchtime, or the day of a field trip?"
Play Time Tool Bingo using pictures of analog clocks, digital clocks, calendars, and unrelated measuring tools.
Examine the classroom clock and calendar, then list one daily question each tool can answer.
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Related Standards
- 2.MG.2
The student will demonstrate an understanding of the concept of time to the nearest five minutes, using analog and digital clocks.
- 3.MG.3.a
Tell and write time to the nearest minute, using analog and digital clocks.
- K.MG.3.a
Identify a calendar as a tool used to measure time.
- 1.MG.3.c
Tell time to the hour and half-hour, using analog and digital clocks.
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