Instructor Notes:

For materials preparations, click ‘Back to Main Menu’ button and select ‘Getting Started – EDC Setup’.

Read Every Day Counts Teacher’s Guide, Kanter and Gillespie, Great Source, 2005 or 2012 edition, p. 38-39.

You might introduce the EDC Clock on October 1st by asking when a day begins. Some students may not realize that each day begins in the middle of the night when they are fast asleep (we hope). With the hands both straight up pointing to 12 midnight, begin by moving the short hand very slowly as you move the long minute hand through the first 60 minutes. Name the time stopping at each five-minute increment until the clock shows one o’clock a.m. Record 12 midnight and 1:00 a.m. on the Night and Day chart and write what students are doing at that time of day in the in the nighttime column to help them associate these times with their dally experience.

On October 2nd, continue moving the minute hand through another hour to 2 a.m. and then, on October 3rd, again to 3 a.m., and so on. Every Monday, first catch up one hour for Saturday and one hour for Sunday. Then move the hands ahead one more hour for Monday.

Students can research the meaning of the abbreviations A.M and P.M. and learn about après meridian and post meridian. Some students have come up with their own way to remember A.M, thinking of it as after midnight.