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Unit 1: Time
Subject: Math
Grade: 3rd grade
Name of Unit: Time
Length of Unit: Ten days
Overview of Unit:

Priority Standards for unit:

Tell and write time to the nearest minute
Solve problems involving addition and subtraction of minutes
Tell and write times to the nearest minute and measure time intervals in minutes. Solve word
problems involving addition and subtraction of time intervals
Supporting Standards for unit:
Estimate time intervals in minutes

Essential Questions: (All questions are based off priority standards. We do not write questions
from supporting standards. What questions by the end of the unit do the students need to be able
to answer? If you were giving parents what main questions the unit to test their children at home.
Every question starts with how or why)
1. How do you tell time?
2. What is the difference between minutes and hours, how do you know?
3. How do you write time?
4. How do you recognize time in minutes?
5. How do you recognize time in hours?
6. How do you add time together?
7. How do you take away time in a problem?
8. What is a time interval and how do you know?
9. How do you write a word problem to solve a time problem?
10. How do you solve a time word math problem?

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Enduring Understanding/Big Ideas: (Answer essential questions but look through a lense of a
parent)
By looking at the clock and the hands on the clocks
An hour has 60 minutes, and we know by looking at the clock
Using a pencil we write number that form time
Minutes is the big hand on the clock, and the last two numbers on other clocks
Hours is the small hand on the clock, and the first two numbers on other clocks
You add time by lining up the numbers and add each number up
You take away time by subtracting and lining up numbers
A time interval is a length of time and we know by looking at the clocks

9. By using a pencil and writing a sentence with a math problem in it

10. You solve a time math problem by reading the sentences and finding the thing you need to solve
for then solving

Unit Vocabulary:
Academic Cross-Curricular Words
Sentences
Clock
Time
Write
Reading

Content/Domain Specific
Minutes
Hours
Word problems
Time interval
Length of time
Solving
Adding
Subtracting

Topics
Main Teaching Topics: (Topics are the main teaching points broken apart into chunks)
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Tell time
Write time
Solve time math problems
Round time to the nearest minute
Measure time intervals
Estimate time intervals in minutes

Engaging Experiences
(These are not lesson plans these are engaging moments the students should have during this
unit)
Engaging Experience 1
Title: Telling Time
Suggested Length of Time: 3-4 days
Standards Addressed

Priority: Tell and write time to the nearest minute

Detailed Description/Instructions: Students will be able to tell time by moving the hands on
a clock of their own. They will be able to move the hands to any time that they are told to.
Example: Making paper clocks for each student and having them move their own clocks
Engaging Experience 2
Title: Writing time
Suggested Length of Time: 3-4 days
Standards Addressed
Priority: Tell and write time to the nearest minute
Detailed Description/Instructions: By working with other students, each student having its
own watch, with walk around and work together to write the times of their fellow students.
Example: A paper watch on each persons arm and the kids walk around and write each
time down
Engaging Experience 3
Title: Solving time word problems
Suggested Length of Time: 3-4 days
Standards Addressed
Priority: Tell and write times to the nearest minute and measure time intervals in
minutes. Solve word problems involving addition and subtraction of time intervals
Detailed Description/Instructions: Students will solve word problems about time and play
bingo with time.
Example: BINGO with time intervals, and winner can get a piece of candy

Engaging Scenario
Engaging Scenario (An Engaging Scenario is a culminating activity that includes the following
components: situation, challenge, specific roles, audience, product or performance.)

I would have the students make me a comic strip about time. They will
create a story and draw pictures for it. There will be requirements, where
they have to draw a clock and write that time, and to give an example of
being late or on time. In addition they will use AM and PM.