Classroom Resource

My Media Choices

Subject Area

Digital Literacy and Computer Science

Grade(s)

4

Overview

We all make choices every day about the media we consume and create. But do kids understand what makes a media choice healthy or not? Hint: It's about more than just screen time. Use the activities in this lesson to give kids a framework for making informed media choices.

Students will be able to:

  • 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.

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Digital Literacy and Computer Science (2018) Grade(s): 4

DLCS18.4.13

Synthesize complex information from multiple sources in different ways to make it more useful and/or relevant.

Unpacked Content

UP:DLCS18.4.13

Vocabulary

  • synthesize
  • relevant
  • timeline
  • flowcart
  • infographic

Knowledge

Students know:
  • information from multiple sources can be combined or synthesized.
  • there are multiple was to combine information to communicate with others.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • synthesize information from multilple sources in a variety of ways to make it more useful such as a flowchart, timeline, infographic, multimedia etc.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • information is obtained from multiple sources to better make sense of information.
  • information can be presented in different ways to make it more useful.
Digital Literacy and Computer Science (2018) Grade(s): 4

DLCS18.4.16

Gather and organize data to answer a question using a variety of computing and data visualization methods.

Unpacked Content

UP:DLCS18.4.16

Vocabulary

  • gather data
  • organize data
  • computing methods
  • data visualization methods

Knowledge

Students know:
  • strategies to gather data to answer a question using a variety of computing and data visualization methods.
  • strategies to organize data to answer a question using a variety of computing and data visualization methods.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • gather and organize data to answer a question using a variety of computing and data visualization methods.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • a variety of computing and data visualization methods can be used to answer a question.
  • there are strategies for gathering and organizing data to answer a question using a variety of computing and data visualization methods.
  • different solutions call for certain types of computing and data visualization.
Link to Resource
https://www.commonsense.org/education/digital-citizenship/lesson/my-media-choic…

CR Resource Type

Lesson/Unit Plan

Resource Provider

Common Sense Media
Accessibility

Accessibility

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Video resources: includes closed captioning or subtitles
License

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Custom License Type (URL)

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