Lesson Plan: Duration to the Nearest Minute Mathematics • 3rd Grade

This lesson plan includes the objectives, prerequisites, and exclusions of the lesson teaching students how to calculate elapsed time or duration of an event in either hours or minutes using number lines, skip counting, or subtraction.

Objectives

Students will be able to

calculate the duration or elapsed time between two times shown on analog clocks,
calculate the duration or elapsed time between two times written digitally,
use number lines and skip counting around clock faces to work out the duration or elapsed time,
solve problems to find the duration or elapsed time.

Prerequisites

Students should already be familiar with

reading and writing the time to the nearest minute,
the terms am and pm.

Exclusions

Students will not cover

converting between units of time,
24-hour time.