Elapsed Time

Looking for a fun interactive teaching idea for elapsed time? Well bingo! Look no further as Elapsed Time Game Puzzles, for CCSS 3.MD.1, will serve as an exciting lesson plan for 3rd grade elementary school classrooms. This is a great resource to incorporate into your unit as a guided math center rotation, review exercise, small group work, morning work, remediation, intervention or rti. It can also be used as a quiz, drill, test, or assessment tool to help determine student mastery of the learning target. Whether a student is homeschooled or given this task as a homework assignment, kids will also love working on these at home to study and improve their skills.

This puzzle set includes 20 colorful jigsaw puzzles, answer key, and an optional station instruction page with an example. These come as pdf printable sheets that can be printed on card stock and laminated for long-term use. As a suggestion, store them in a sealable gallon storage bag and place them in a foldable tub or bin for students to use throughout the year for enrichment when they finish early. Another idea, for a craft project, is students can glue the completed puzzles into a spiral notebook or journal as a model reference sheet. They can also be glued on a poster for displaying on a bulletin board or as a wall anchor chart.

It covers matching the elapsed time in hours and minutes puzzle pieces that solve the elapsed time between two analog clocks or elapsed time word problems. By solving the questions to sort, scoot and match the puzzle pieces, students can gain confidence in an important and sometimes challenging skill. Your 3rd graders will love to practice and learn to develop strategies about elapsed time to the minute with this product!

I hope you download and enjoy this engaging hands-on manipulative activity with your students! So set those worksheets aside and give our puzzles a try!

Relevant Grade 3 Common Core Standard 3.MD.A.1
Tell and write time to the nearest minute and measure time intervals in minutes. Solve word problems involving addition and subtraction of time intervals in minutes
Cross Reference: Texas TEKS 3.7C and Virginia SOL 4.9