Features:

  • An engaging clock that teaches kids how to tell time through hands-on learning and experimentation
  • Encourage basic math development as children add and subtract hours
  • Hidden gears maintain correct hour and minute relationships as you demonstrate time-telling concepts
  • Color-coded hour (red) and minute (blue) hands
  • Ideal for ages 5+
Great for Classrooms

Our school district provides the large version of this with our math curriculum. I used PTSA money and bought several boxes of these so each student in my class would have one to use. The kids were so excited theirs looked just like mine. I love that it is geared and the children get to see what the hands actually look like when they are not right on the hour. It is what makes learning TIME so difficult. When they get the hands-on experience they can really see and understand why the hour hand isn't pointing right at the 4 when it's 4:30. I don't think they will withstand a heavy beating (eventually they will encounter 'that' kid--the one that destroys everything) but with good pre-teaching about proper care most should do fine. They are screwed together so it may be possible to take them apart to fix too.

Great way to learn!

The 4 inch Learning Resource Gear Clocks are a great way for kids to have time on their hands. It offers kids learning to tell time a tactile way to learn which is crucial to some young learners. Having multiple clocks at such easily affordable prices offers so many options to work with teaching time. The hands of the clocks are two different colors to help students learn which one is which and the numbers are large and easy to read. The movement is smooth and easy.

Slightly smaller than what comes in the ABLLS kit, but still a very nice product

I was thrilled that I could get six of these clocks so cheaply! I work with kids and at least one of them at some point is learning to tell time, so this has worked out nicely that I now have several clocks. They're slightly smaller than the clock that comes with the ABLLS kit, but that's fine, they're not too small that you can't read the numbers from an arms length. Works as designed, thanks!!

Great design, good quality

I've been using this to teach my son to tell time. He's 10 years old with severe ADHD and a processing delay; he does not catch onto things quickly. (Having said that, his 5th grade teacher told me NONE of the kids in his class can tell time!) It's great that these work like a regular clock - DON'T move the red hour hand, just the blue minutes hand, make sure you tell your kids that. (My kid kept trying to move both hands instead of winding it like a real clock) Because it moves accurately, you can show your child exactly how a clock looks at specific times (e.g., when it's 4:30, the hour hand isn't pointing directly to the 4 anymore) as opposed to the way they show it in school, where the hour hand is always pointing directly to the hour. Also, the 5-minute marks have little numerical designations next to them - 5, 10, 15, 20, etc. so you can have your kid count "...if it's 4:30 now, how many minutes until it's 4:45?" and so on.

Super clocks for the classroom

Great hands on clocks for my students. These are the best clocks for the classroom, as the minute hand makes the hour hand move as you move it like a real clock. That is why I chose these specifically. They are also heavy duty plastic and hold up well with little kiddos.

Great instructional aid.

These geared clocks are a great for my students. These Learning Resources clocks share the coloration with other Learning Resources clocks (I also have the magnetic and large demonstration ones in my classroom). That uniformity supports the more visual students who are still learning the clock hands. It also helps the time stand out when I have a kid across the room hold the clock up to share out the time they have. Having 6 small clocks for students to interact with is great for small group instruction or letting students manipulate the hands themselves. The geared hands are excellent, because the hour hand moves independently and appropriately as you rotate the minute hand. The clocks themselves are quite durable, and while a determined student *could* break the hands if they really wanted to, the clocks are certainly strong enough to withstand normal use and some degree of misuse.

My favorite little clock

These are easily my favorite of all those learning clocks out there. Simple, bright, and easy-to-read, and possesses those awesome gear clocks where the hands move in a realistic fashion. They are fairly inexpensive and quite durable for small kids in a classroom. Just a great staple for the elementary classroom.

You can't move the hour hand backwards easily, and the little stand in the back comes ...

These work well. My students were able to manipulate them fairly well. You can't move the hour hand backwards easily, and the little stand in the back comes off a little too easily. However, we don't really use those anyway. I recommend them for learning how to tell time. It has all the labels for minutes.

Perfect for kids learning to tell time!

I purchased these for my 3 homeschooled children who are all learning to tell time! At the parent teacher store, clocks just like these were $8.99 each! So this was a much better value for us and we have three extras If any get misplaced!

Visuals are a good tool for grade school children in learning how to tell time From a clock.

Like and passed out to other Applied Behavioral Analysts that work with the Autism population in the D.O.E. System.

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