Rush Hour Game – How to TEACH Kids How to Tell Time!

Rush Hour Game

This fun activity turns practicing telling time into a race to see who can get to the next hour faster. But be careful, in this game, time can go backward. This post may contain affiliate links.

Your child will have a blast practicing time-telling in this fast-paced game!

What you need:

2 play clocks with hands that can be moved manually:  Purchase from our affiliate link on Amazon!

One die

Game code:

1= move 5 minutes ahead

2= move 10 minutes ahead

3= move 5 minutes back

4= move 15 minutes ahead

5= move 20 minutes ahead

6= move 10 minutes back

What you do:

1. The players start their clocks at the top of the hour. Alternating turns, they roll the die and move the minute hand according to the game code.

2. To win, you must land exactly in the next hour. If you start the game with both clocks on 12:00, the first person to 1:00 wins.

3. If a player goes over or past the next hour, she must return to the top of the original hour and start over. Discuss the times on the clocks during the game. Find them on Amazon by clicking the link below.

As your child becomes more proficient with telling time, make a new game code.

Rather than just discussing the time, you could also have them keep track of all of the times that everyone lands on while playing.

You can add in times that won’t land on five-minute intervals.

For example, 1= move ahead 7 minutes, or 2= move back 12 minutes. Make sure your game code allows a player to land on the next hour exactly!

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If you are a teacher or a homeschool mom you will learn that using manipulatives is always a fun way to teach kids to learn.

This game isn’t only a fun way to use the clocks as manipulatives in the classroom but it turns their learning into a game and makes it fun.

If you have access to a Cricut you can even make these adorable DIY Clocks to help with this lesson.

**This is a guest post from our friends at Eduction.com.  As a teacher and mother, incorporating play into learning is really important!

Here is a sample lesson plan for teaching students how to tell time:

Objective: Students will be able to tell time to the nearest hour and a half hour.

Materials:

• Clock with movable hands
• Worksheets with clock faces
• Pencils

Warm-Up: Review the numbers on a clock and have students identify the numbers as they appear on a clock.

Direct Instruction:

1. Introduce the concept of hours and minutes. Explain that there are 60 minutes in an hour and that the minute hand on a clock moves once around the clock face in 60 minutes.
2. Show students how to read the time on an analog clock to the nearest hour. Have them practice by reading the time on a clock with movable hands and on worksheets with clock faces.
3. Next, teach students to read time to the nearest half hour. Explain that the minute hand is pointing at the 12 when on the hour, the 6 when half past, the 9 when quarter to, and the 3 when quarter past.
4. Have students practice reading time to the nearest half hour on a clock with movable hands and on worksheets with clock faces.

Guided Practice: Have students work in pairs and take turns reading time on a clock with movable hands and on worksheets with clock faces.

Independent Practice: Provide students with worksheets that have clock faces with their hands in different positions. Have them practice reading time to the nearest hour and a half hour.

Closure: Review the key concepts of hours and minutes and how to read time to the nearest hour and half hour. Have students share their answers and correct any misconceptions.

Assessment: Administer a worksheet or quiz to assess students’ understanding of telling time to the nearest hour and a half hour.