When students understand the AM/PM concept you can move on to the 24 hour clock concept.īelow are some activities you can do with students to practice the 24 hour clock concept. Have students announce an activity and the time while the rest of the class put up an AM or PM sign. Have students write down activities and ask their partners to guess if they are AM or PM.Have the students arrange their activities on a time number line. Ask the students to write some of their AM and PM weekend or weekday activities.The time number line can be vertical or horizontal. You can do this every day, on a laminated time number line, and have discussions and clear misconceptions. Look at the schedule of the day and mark the times as AM or PM.Students learn the AM/PM concept in grade 2, however, it’s always good to revise it before you move on to elapsed time.īelow are some activities you can do to practice AM/PM For ideas and activities about starting to teach time and reading the analog clock check out the previous post Teaching time, tips, activities, games, print and digital AM/PMīefore teaching elapsed time it is important to make sure that all the students understand the AM/PM concept, and the 24 hour clock. Today I would like to discuss the concepts AM/PM, the 24 hour clock, and one of the most challenging concepts Elapsed Time. However, we can make sure that students are successful by using a variety of activities and by making sure that there are no misconceptions or gaps left in their learning. Time does not use the standard place value. It is hard to visualize and compare time. The students cannot see, touch, or weigh time. Learning time is often confusing for students as the concept of time is still abstract for many of them as it doesn’t connect to the other concepts of measurement.
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