UK Lesson Plan
My Media Choices (UK)
What makes a healthy media choice?
Age
9–10Time
45 mins.
Objectives:
Learn the "What? When? How Much?" framework for describing their media choices.
Use this framework and their emotional responses to evaluate how healthy different types of media choices are.
Begin to develop their own definition of a healthy media balance.
Vocabulary Show definitions
media ·
media balance ·
media choices
media – all of the ways that large groups of people get and share information (TV, books, internet, newspapers, phones, etc.)
media balance – using media in a way that feels healthy and in balance with other life activities (family, friends, school, hobbies, etc.)
media choices – time spent watching, listening to, reading or creating media
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Key Standards Supported
Lesson Plan
45 mins.
Warm-Up: How Media Can Make Us Feel
10 mins.Explore: My Media Choices
15 mins.Evaluate: Media Balance Reflection
10 mins.Wrap-Up: What Is Media Balance?
10 mins.Additional Resources
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Lesson last updated: January 2021
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Lesson last updated: January 2021