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K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

Information Skills — Grade 4

Goal 2: The learner will IDENTIFY and USE criteria for excellence to evaluate information and formats.

Objective 2.06. Recognize the power of media to influence.

Additional related resources

We’re in the process of aligning our content for students to the Standard Course of Study. As we do, you’ll find it here.

General resources

Aligned lesson plans

Tuning in to good nutrition
In Food for thought: Elementary lessons on nutrition and healthy living, page 5.7
Advertisers use a number of strategies to get us to buy the foods they are selling. This lesson plan, from the Food for Thought nutrition curriculum, asks students to think about these strategies, how they work, and how by understanding these strategies, they can make informed decisions when they make food purchases.
Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Healthful Living)

Resources on the web

Investigating junk mail: Negotiating critical literacy at the mailbox
In this ReadWriteThink lesson, students learn to think about and question texts in ways that develop their analytical capacities and critical reading practices by investigating junk mail. To become critical consumers, students must develop the ability to... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
Provided by: ReadWriteThink