Tick Tock Jeopardy: Mastering Time to the Nearest Five Minutes

Tick Tock Jeopardy: Mastering Time to the Nearest Five Minutes

Learning Objective

At the end of the lesson, you will be able to tell time to the nearest five minutes and apply this knowledge in a Jeopardy game.

What do you already know about telling time to the nearest five minutes?

Understanding Time

Time is a way of measuring the duration of events and the sequence in which they occur. It is divided into hours, minutes, and seconds.

Nearest Five Minutes

Telling time to the nearest five minutes involves identifying the closest five-minute interval on an analog or digital clock.

Interactive Activity: Analog Clocks

Students will practice reading and identifying the nearest five-minute time on analog clocks.

Interactive Activity: Digital Clocks

Students will practice reading and identifying the nearest five-minute time on digital clocks.

Jeopardy Game Introduction

Introduce the rules and format of the Jeopardy game, emphasizing the focus on telling time to the nearest five minutes.

Jeopardy Game Categories

Categories may include 'Analog Clocks', 'Digital Clocks', 'Nearest Five Minutes', and 'Word Problems'.

Jeopardy Game Play

Students will participate in a Jeopardy game to test their understanding of telling time to the nearest five minutes.

Write down 3 things you learned in this lesson.

Have students enter three things they learned in this lesson. With this they can indicate their own learning efficiency of this lesson.

Write down 2 things you want to know more about.

Here, students enter two things they would like to know more about. This not only increases involvement, but also gives them more ownership.

Ask 1 question about something you haven't quite understood yet.

The students indicate here (in question form) with which part of the material they still have difficulty. For the teacher, this not only provides insight into the extent to which the students understand/master the material, but also a good starting point for the next lesson.