The End of Daylight Saving Time is Near…for this year
This coming Saturday night is the end of Daylight Saving Time for this year in North America. I’m excited to turn the clocks back one hour because it means the sunrise will be earlier in the day. As someone who gets up at 5am or earlier every day and lives in a northern latitude, I […]
Free PDFs for Lessons on Telling Time
A couple of days ago I shared a few resources for helping students learn to tell time. One of those resources that I mentioned, but didn’t demonstrate, was Canva’s templates for making clocks and their templates for making lessons about telling time. The templates can be used as is or you can modify them to […]
Learning How to Tell Time on Analog Clocks and Watches
My oldest daughter got a little analog wristwatch for her birthday a few days ago. So far she loves wearing it (she wanted to wear it to bed last night) and is rather quickly learning how to tell time with it. As you might expect, the watch has prompted a few questions including “how does […]
It’s Time to Change the Clocks
I’m one of those rare people who actually likes turning the clocks back in the fall. Sure, it means that it gets dark earlier, but I’m an early riser and like seeing the sun in the morning. This weekend we’re changing our clocks and if you are too, your students might have some questions about […]
Change Your Clock, Have a Heart Attack? – Daylight Saving Lessons
In most of North America this weekend we will be moving our clocks forward by one hour for Daylight Saving Time. Last night’s edition of NBC Nightly News had an interesting story about the correlation between moving clocks forward by one hour and an increase in cases of heart attacks. The video of the story […]