Are you looking for fun PBL ideas on time and clock activities? Here is a list of awesome PBL activities that you could use in your class.
ALL these activities are meticulously design based on the common core standard. They are written in a FUN-filled manner, providing you a set of questions that gives you the perfect recap and spiral review for your students. Each set of questions tests on different set of skills and outcomes, covering from basic to difficult. They are also integrated with some critical thinking questions to strengthen your students’ logical thinking.
The following are the topics mastery:
- Face of a clock
- Hour hand and minute hand
- 12-hour clock
- 24-hour clock
- Time differences
- Logical thinking
Activity 1: Reading Time and Schedule
Problem: Zara is working as a volunteer at Timmie’s Farm. She is given a list of tasks to do for that day. Help Zara to identify the time that she needed to do each task based on the riddles written on the list.
Question: Feed the chickens.
When the hour hand is a little past 7 while the minute hand points at 3. What time is it?
Solution: If the hour hand points a little past 7 means it is past 7 o’clock. If the minute hand points at 3 means it is 15 minutes. Therefore, the feeding time for the chickens is at 7:15.
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Activity 2: Converting 24 Hour Clock
Problem: Zara is at Dash Airport. The boarding time is written in the 24-hour clock system. Help Zara to convert the time into 12-hour clock for each flight based on the schedule shown on the screen.
Question: Boarding time for Flight A020 is 20:40. Draw the hour hand and the minute hand to show the boarding time of this flight and state the time.
Solution: Convert 20:40 to 12 hour clock, 20:40 = 8:40 p.m.
To draw 8:40 on an analog clock, the hour hand must point a little past 8 and closer to 9, while the minute hand must point at 8.
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Activity 3: Time Difference and 24 Hour Clock
Problem: Zara lives in Paris (UTC+1). Every day she chats with her pen-pals online. Help Zara to find out the time for each of her pen-pal’s city based on the time zone given by them.
Question: It is 23:10 in Paris. Zara is chatting with Jennifer from Miami (UTC-5). Draw the hour hand and the minute hand to show the time in Miami and state the time.
Solution: Find the time difference between Paris and Miami, +1 – (-5) = 6. The time difference is 6 hours.
Find the time in Miami, 23:10 – 6 hours = 17:10. The time in Miami is 17:10.
Convert 17:10 to 12 hour clock, 17:10 = 5:10 p.m. It is 5:10 p.m. in Miami.
To draw 5:10 on an analog clock, the hour hand must point a little past 5, while the minute hand must point at 2.
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