Teacher: Maria Fernández RiberaSchool: Anselm Clavé (Cornellà)

Class: Year 4Number of students: 25

Time: 9.00 AMSubject: Maths

Title of lesson: Analogue and digital time

Length: 60’

Year 4 children have worked on the measurement of time before and they know how to say times in English, Spanish and Catalan. During the lesson I have designed, they learnt about the difference between Analogue and Digital Time. You will find all the photos

and video in Anselm Clave school blog. Click on the following link!

http://escolaanselmclaveangles.blogspot.com.es/

LEARNING OBJECTIVES-To know, say and make difference between analogue and digital time.

-To know and say vocabulary about: different parts of the day,

numbers from 1 to 60.

-To know and express the way of telling time (digital and analogue)

-To notice and understand differences and similarities between

Catalan, Spanish and English way of telling the time.

-To acquire maths concepts as half/halves, quarter and whole

COMPETENCES INVOLVED-Linguistic and communicative-Mathematic-Competence about knowledge and interaction with physical world.-Information and digital-Learn to learn competence

ASSESSMENTChildren will be able to:-know, say and make differences between analogue and digital time.-know and express way of telling time.-know vocabulary about parts of days and numbers.-use maths concepts as half/halves, quarter and whole.-understand differences and similarities between Catalan, Spanish and English way of telling time.-participate and be respectful with their classmates.-work in an autonomous way.

1. WHICH CLOCK OR WATCH DO YOU HAVE? (warm-up activity)Teacher showed a digital and analogue clock.

What clock have you got? Have you seen any difference?

Do you know how to change analogue time into digital time?

LESSON DEVELOPMENT

2. DETECTIVE’S TIME

We all saw the following web:http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/maths/shape_space/time/read/1/There was an example of changing analogue times into digital times. How can we do it? They did the following exercise. After sharing their answers, we all saw the web and check times.

Children could click this button in case they had no idea about how to change times. They could see two clocks and experiment with them.

http://www.mathsisfun.com/time-clocks-analog-digital.html

I tried to help children to understand and check their knowledge…

Do you want to play?

3. COMPLETE A MISSION GAMEI divided students into two teams. We playes games 1 and 4 from the web http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/maths/shape_space/time/play/

There is a mission that must be completed. Which team will be the winner?

Plan your TV evening

1. Read the worksheet carefully.

2. You have got 1 hour and a half (90 minutes) to watch TV programmes.

3. Complete the grid.4. Change into

analogue time. Add AM or PM.

4. WORK IN PAIRS

5. TIME TO REFLECTWhat have we learnt? Reflect upon it

Those have been the activities children have done in class. It was a 60’ lesson, very intense and funny.

Do you want to know my thoughts after implementing it?

THE TEACHER

•It has been hard to explain and give a maths lesson in

English. Sometimes I have experienced lack of

confidence.

•I have planned too many things for one hour lesson.

•I love giving a different subject in English and seeing

my students

•I have found lots of resources by means of surfing the

net, above all, from English schools webs and I like

trying to find out different and attractive resources and

leaving apart the Class Book.

•If I had to teach one subject in English, I would ask for

help, at least, I would need a workmate. Moreover, I

would like to work with half class.

•It is weird to listen to myself speaking in English

STUDENTS

•Students are so motivated when they are using

English with a purpose.

•It has been hard for them the use of certain

mathematical concepts and they are not accustomed

to them.

•They enjoyed the lesson and asked me for more.

Apart from that, the fact of using an interactive game

make them feel so enthusiastic and, at the same time,

hard to control.

THE LESSON

•In my opinion, I have planned a quite good lesson.

•Warming up and detective time (brainstorming about digital and

analogue time and pupils tried to change analogue into digital time

before my explanation): Students like guessing and it is a good way to

catch their attention. They have participated and work in groups.

•Core of the lesson (having a look at the web and I have spoken about

AM and PM, analogue and digital time): they seemed to understand very

well the explanation but the web I have choosen has been a little bit

difficult.

•The game was fantastic and useful for them.

•Worksheet: They loved working on the TV programmes they usually

watch and work in groups make them speak in English and try to

communicate themselves.

•Summing up: It is a very good activity to make them think about what

they have just learnt.

Thank you!!!