Introduction to Analog Clocks

Introduction to Analog Clocks

Ages 6–8 · 8 minutes · Math

Learn about the hands on analog clocks

An introduction to analog clocks with a focus on learning about the minute and hour hands. If your child has seen digital clocks, they are ready for this introduction to analog clocks.

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Standards alignment

Common Core State Standards

  • 1.MD.B.3 — Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.

Alabama

  • MA19.1.19 — Tell and write time to the hours and half hours using analog and digital clocks.

Alaska

  • K.MD.5 — Tell time to the hour using both analog and digital clocks.

Arizona

  • 1.MD.B.3a — Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.

Arkansas

  • 1.GM.5 — Tell and write time to the nearest hour and half hour using analog clocks; understand how to read hours and minutes using digital clocks.
  • K.GM.7 — Understand concepts of time, recognizing that clocks and calendars are tools that measure time. • Concepts of time include: morning, afternoon, evening, today, yesterday, tomorrow, day, week, month, and year

California

  • 1.MD.B.3 — Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.

Colorado

  • 1.MD.B.3 — Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.

Connecticut

  • 1.MD.B.3 — Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.

Delaware

  • 1.MD.B.3 — Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.

Florida

  • MA.1.M.2.1 — Using analog and digital clocks, tell and write time in hours and half-hours.

Georgia

  • 1.MDR.6 — Use appropriate tools to measure, order, and compare intervals of length and time, as well as denominations of money to solve real-life, mathematical problems and analyze graphical displays of data to answer relevant questions.
  • 1.MDR.6.2 — Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks, and measure elapsed time to the hour on the hour using a predetermined number line.

Hawaii

  • 1.MD.B.3 — Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.

Idaho

  • 1.MD.B.3 — Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.

Illinois

  • 1.MD.B.3 — Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.

Indiana

  • 1.M.2 — Tell and write time to the nearest half-hour and relate time to events (before/after, shorter/longer) using analog clocks. Explain how to read hours and minutes using digital clocks. (E)
  • 1.H.7 — Explain how clocks and calendars are used to measure time.

Iowa

  • 1.MD.B.3 — Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.

Kansas

  • 1.MD.3 — Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.

Kentucky

  • KY.1.MD.3.a — Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.
  • KY.1.MD.3 — Assign values to time and money.

Louisiana

  • 1.MD.B.3 — Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.

Maine

  • 1.MD.B.3 — Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.

Maryland

  • 1.MD.B.3 — Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.

Massachusetts

  • 1.MD.B.3 — Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.

Michigan

  • 1.MD.B.3 — Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.

Minnesota

  • 1.3.2.2 — Tell time to the hour and half-hour.

Mississippi

  • 1.MD.3.a — Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.
  • 2.H.2.1 — Identify vocabulary to express periods of time.

Missouri

  • K.GM.B.3 — Demonstrate an understanding of concepts of time and devices that measure time.
  • 1.GM.C.8 — Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.

Montana

  • 1.MD.B.3 — Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.

Nebraska

  • K.G.3.b — Identify the parts of digital and analog clocks. Tell and write time to the hour using digital clocks and analog clocks using only the hour hand.
  • K.G.3 — Time and Money: Students will know coin names and values and tell time to the hour.

Nevada

  • 1.MD.B.3 — Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.
  • MP7 — Look for and make use of structure.

New Hampshire

  • 1.MD.B.3 — Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.

New Jersey

  • 1.MD.B.3 — Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.

New Mexico

  • 1.MD.B.3 — Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.

New York

  • NY-1.MD.3.a — Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks. Develop an understanding of common terms, such as, but not limited to, o’clock and half past.
  • NY-2.MD.7 — Tell and write time from analog and digital clocks in five minute increments, using a.m. and p.m. Develop an understanding of common terms, such as, but not limited to, quarter past, half past, and quarter to.

North Carolina

  • NC.1.MD.3 — Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.

North Dakota

  • 1.GM.M.3 — Tell and write time to the hour and half-hour (including o-clock and half past) using analog and digital clocks.

Ohio

  • 1.MD.3 — Work with time and money.
  • 1.MD.3.a — Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.

Oklahoma

  • 1.GM.3 — Describe and measure concepts of time.
  • 1.GM.3.1 — Tell time to the hour and half-hour (analog and digital).
  • K.GM.3 — Tell time as it relates to daily life.

Oregon

  • 1.GM.C.6 — Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.

Pennsylvania

  • CC.2.4.1.A.2 — Tell and write time to the nearest half hour using both analog and digital clocks.

Rhode Island

  • 1.MD.B.3 — Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.

South Carolina

  • 1.MDA.3 — Use analog and digital clocks to tell and record time to the hour and half hour.

South Dakota

  • 1.MD.B.3 — Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.

Tennessee

  • 1.MD.B.3 — Recognize a clock as a measurement tool. Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.

Texas

  • 1.7E — tell time to the hour and half hour using analog and digital clocks.

Utah

  • 1.MD.3 — Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.
  • 1.MP.5 — Use appropriate tools strategically.

Vermont

  • 1.MD.B.3 — Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.

Virginia

  • 1.MG.3a — Identify different tools to measure time including clocks (analog and digital) and calendar.
  • 1.MG.3b — Describe the units of time represented on a clock as minutes and hours.
  • 1.MG.3d — Describe the location of the hour hand relative to time to the hour and half-hour on an analog clock.
  • 1.MG.3e — Describe the location of the minute hand relative to time to the hour and half-hour on an analog clock.

Washington

  • 1.MD.B.3 — Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.

Washington, D.C.

  • 1.MD.B.3 — Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.

West Virginia

  • M.1.17 — Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.

Wisconsin

  • M.1.MD.B.3 — Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.

Wyoming

  • 1.MD.I — Work with time and money.
  • 1.MD.I.3.A — Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.