The clock
Telling the time can be very tricky. This widget allows pupils to learn through exploration and enables teachers to demonstrate concepts. Turn the hands on the clock and see the correspondence on the digital clock and the 'events' illustrations. Use the control panel at the bottom to move the time forward or backwards in blocks or set the clock to play.
Use the yellow buttons in the header bar to tailor the experience by such things as changing the clock face and showing and hiding parts of the activity.
Telling the time can be very tricky. This widget allows pupils to learn through exploration and enables teachers to demonstrate concepts. Turn the hands on the clock and see the correspondence in the 'events' illustrations. Use the control panel at the bottom to move the time forward or backwards in blocks or set the clock to play.
Use the yellow buttons in the header bar to tailor the experience by changing the clock's function and appearance and showing and hiding parts of the activity.
Teaching tips:
The events panel tries to show typical activities that happen in a school day to help children to relate the abstract to personal experience.
Use the clockwise lock to reinforce the idea of the clockwise motion of hands.
Use the 'Minutes display' control to change the notation of minutes on the face.
Use the 'Play 60:1' control to demonstrate the relative speeds of the hands.
You can use the blue and orange buttons to demonstrate the answer to questions like "What will the clock look like in 25 minutes' time?"
Use the clockwise lock to reinforce the idea of the clockwise motion of hands.
Use the 'Minutes display' control to change the notation of minutes on the face.
Use the 'Play 60:1' control to demonstrate the relative speeds of the hands.
You can use the blue and orange buttons to demonstrate the answer to questions like "What will the clock look like in 25 minutes' time?"
The events panel tries to show typical activities that happen in a school day to help children to relate the abstract to personal experience.
Use the clockwise lock to reinforce the idea of the clockwise motion of hands.
Use the 'Hours/minutes' control to switch off the minute hand to focus just on the hour hand or to display minutes on the face in either regular 5-minute intervals or 'minutes past/minutes to'.
Use the 'Play 60:1' control to demonstrate the relative speeds of the hands.
You can use the blue and orange buttons to demonstrate the answer to questions like "What will the clock look like in 30 minutes' time?"
Use the clockwise lock to reinforce the idea of the clockwise motion of hands.
Use the 'Hours/minutes' control to switch off the minute hand to focus just on the hour hand or to display minutes on the face in either regular 5-minute intervals or 'minutes past/minutes to'.
Use the 'Play 60:1' control to demonstrate the relative speeds of the hands.
You can use the blue and orange buttons to demonstrate the answer to questions like "What will the clock look like in 30 minutes' time?"
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