PED 3114 D: Review of Media Literacy Lessons by Diane Watt https://padlet.com/dadwatt/vi62iagjdygt5yhm Briefly describe a media literacy activity. Include: grade level(s), title, resource type, topic, media type + a brief description + your team's overall rating of this resource. en-us 2022-03-10 13:57:41 UTC 2022-03-10 18:07:53 UTC hello@padlet.com Comparing Real Families to Tv Families https://padlet.com/dadwatt/vi62iagjdygt5yhm/wish/2088866097 Grades 2-5, Lesson Plan, Media Literacy 
Chloe, Marinette, Emilie J.

In this lesson plan, students learn how the media construct reality by studying families portrayed on television, and comparing them to the real-life families they know. Students will choose a television program and create a report on it in groups.

The lesson plan is originally a week long (to allow time to watch the TV shows), but we all agreed that if we were to use this lesson plan, we would modify it so it could be done in a shorter time frame.

We rate this activity 8/10 because it is highly customizable to different age groups. We took away 2 points because we did not like the length of the activity.]]> 2022-03-10 17:54:37 UTC https://padlet.com/dadwatt/vi62iagjdygt5yhm/wish/2088866097 Facing TV Violence: Rewriting the Script lillian77 https://padlet.com/dadwatt/vi62iagjdygt5yhm/wish/2088875534 Cassandra, Victor, Lillian
Grades 4 (can also used in primary level)
This lesson teaches children that television doesn’t always offer the best solutions to conflict. 
-examines and brainstorms conflict resolution strategies

Rate: 8/10]]> 2022-03-10 17:59:51 UTC https://padlet.com/dadwatt/vi62iagjdygt5yhm/wish/2088875534 Renée T., Gracie A., Sierra K. & Emilie B. https://padlet.com/dadwatt/vi62iagjdygt5yhm/wish/2088880304 Grade: 4
Title: He shoots he scores
Resource type: Lesson plan
Topic: Alcohol advertising and sports 
Media Type: Advertising
Brief description:
  • Students explore the ways in which companies use sporting events and athletes to sell products and influence consumers – especially young people. 
  • Day One, with an “I love sports” show and tell that provides students the opportunity to discuss the sports they love to play and watch, and the values and attributes that make sports an important part of a person’s development. 
  • Students integrate their feelings about sports into a classroom display of words, images and artifacts. 
  • Another day: students discuss words and images relating to sports and compare them with the ways in which advertisers – particularly alcohol advertisers – use these associations to sell products. 
  • Students also examine two case studies: beer advertising at the 2002 Winter Olympics and a controversial series of Molson commercials featuring the popular sports commentator Don Cherry. 
  • As an extension activity, students conduct a survey of ads that appear during a televised sporting event.

Overall rating: 8/10

]]> 2022-03-10 18:02:35 UTC https://padlet.com/dadwatt/vi62iagjdygt5yhm/wish/2088880304 Sam, Sierra R, Marina - Avatars and Body Image mverd089 https://padlet.com/dadwatt/vi62iagjdygt5yhm/wish/2088880906 Title: Avatars and Body Image
Resource Type: Digital Resource
Grade: 4-6
Description: This resource focuses on health and gender/body representations, as well as the portrayal of different genders' body types in the media. The students can create their own avatars that resemble themselves, as well as comparing real bodies vs. photoshopped bodies.
Our thoughts: We enjoy that it helps to reinforce bodily confidence and self-esteem in our students. It also encourages proper representation of all genders' bodies. It creates awareness of how the media tries to distort body image. It can spark a discussion on media and body image.



]]> 2022-03-10 18:02:56 UTC https://padlet.com/dadwatt/vi62iagjdygt5yhm/wish/2088880906 Earth Day: Maps as media - Lesson | MediaSmarts https://padlet.com/dadwatt/vi62iagjdygt5yhm/wish/2088884798
Briann, Bryanna and Eugénie
Grade(s) 4-6 
Resource types: Lesson Plan 
Topic: Maps as media - Lesson
Media Type: Google maps - Internet navigation, advertising/marketing aesthetics 
Description of activity:
  • Using google maps (satellite view), students will have to explain the number of green spaces in a city (e.g. parks), indicate how green a city is and how many green spots there are in a neighborhood/city/province. It is an activity to demonstrate how to use maps online and to navigate the map of the city. 
  • Opens conversation about our environment : greenhouse gases, energy efficient, solar panels, recycling
  • Cross curricular opportunity with science (gr 4 life sci, gr5 energy)
  • Discussion about maps being used for different purposes

Overall rating: 8/10
  • Flexible subjects 
  • Could be transferred as a larger project 
  • A bit long 
  • Requires previous knowledge (through the attached lesson) 
  • Detailed and includes a clear student handout. 
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