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Media Awareness, Lesson 1

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A lesson plan for Grade 4 English Language Arts and Visual Arts Education

Provider: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

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4
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The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

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In this ARTSEDGE lesson, students discuss why they like the particular toy they have chosen to bring to class. They brainstorm, making a list of different categories of toys, and then discuss reasons for valuing particular toys. They begin to explore the concepts of advertising and target audiences and use drawing to create a cross-curricular link between media studies and the principles of art and design.

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

Visual Arts Education (2001)

Grade 4

  • Goal 1: The learner will develop critical and creative thinking skills and perceptual awareness necessary for understanding and producing art.
    • Objective 1.02: Create work which approaches a higher level of realism.
  • Goal 2: The learner will develop skills necessary for understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.

English Language Arts (2004)

Grade 4

  • Goal 3: The learner will make connections with text through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
    • Objective 3.01: Respond to fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama using interpretive, critical, and evaluative processes by:
      • analyzing the impact of authors' word choice and context.
      • examining the reasons for characters' actions.
      • identifying and examining characters' motives.
      • considering a situation or problem from different characters' points of view.
      • analyzing differences among genres.
      • making inferences and drawing conclusions about characters, events and themes.
    • Objective 3.04: Make informed judgments about television and film/video productions.
    • Objective 3.06: Conduct research for assigned projects or self-selected projects (with assistance) from a variety of sources through the use of technological and informal tools (e.g., print and non-print texts, artifacts, people, libraries, databases, computer networks).