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It's About Time!
Can you find the degree
measure of the angle formed between the hour and minute hands of a clock when
the time is 7:30? 10:45? How about 1:47 or 7:08? What time, between 5 and 6
o’clock (to the NEAREST SECOND),
are the minute and hour hands of a clock perpendicular to each other?
These are a few of the tasks
that Mrs. Samura’s 8th graders worked on as they completed their
most recent VTAM Lab report.
Coming back from Christmas Break, all 8th graders
participated in a unit involving time where they each made two working clocks
out of ponderosa pine boards. Using a variety of hand and power tools, each student worked on what is
probably their last VTAM Lab project for their middle school years here at the
Hawai’i Campus of the Kamehameha Schools.
In a demonstration of kahiau,
the 8th graders shared the clocks they made with nearly 200
students on Moloka’i. The gifts were given to the kindergarten, 1st,
and 2nd graders that they did mini-lessons with at various
public schools on the island. The
lesson involved teaching the children how to tell time on an analog clock …
something that many of us took for granted awhile back before the advent of
digital wristwatches!
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