My Media Use: A Personal Challenge

Lesson Overview and Teacher Lesson Plan

Essential Question:

What is your strategy for finding media balance?

Students will be able to:

Make an inventory of their media choices and how those choices make them feel.
Brainstorm personal strategies for balancing media use.
Create personal guidelines for promoting healthy media balance.

Estimated time: 55 min

Lesson Snapshot:

Warm Up: Taking Stock (5 min)
Analyze: My Media Use (20 min)
Evaluate: Creating Healthy Media Balance (15 min)
Wrap Up: My Media Strategy (15 min)

What you need:

backpack or bag

Quick Links to Lesson Resources:

Student Handout: My Media Choices Inventory - Student Version - Teacher Version

Student Handout: My Media-Balance Strategy - Student Version - Teacher Version

Lesson Quiz - Student Version - Teacher Version

Take-home resources:

Family activity

Family engagement resources

Standards Alignment:

Common Core ELA:

L.7.1, L.7.3, L.7.6, SL.7.1, SL.7.1a, SL.7.1b, SL.7.1c, SL.7.1d, SL.7.2, SL.7.6, W.7.2, W.7.2f, W.7.4, W.7.5, W.7.9, W.7.10

ISTE:

1a, 1c, 1d, 2a, 2b, 2c, 3b, 4d, 5b, 5c, 6a, 6d, 7b, 7d

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