LEARN NC

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

Goal 3

The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.

Objective 3.04

Make informed judgments about television, radio, video/film productions, and other electronic mediums and/or print formats.

Resources aligned to this objective

Trick or truth: Recognizing the hottest trends in advertising
Students will study commercials and advertising techniques, will work in groups to select different types of ads from magazines, and make a collage to illustrate one of the ten techniques advertisers use.
Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
By Kathy Idol.

Resources on the web

On the Oregon Trail
In this lesson, students work with primary documents and latter-day photographs to recapture the experience of traveling on the Oregon Trail. The goals of this lesson are: to learn about the pioneer experience on the Oregon Trail to... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
Provided by: National Endowment for the Humanities
Media Awareness, Lesson 3
In this final lesson of the Media curriculum unit from ARTSEDGE, students create a drawing to be used as an advertisement for their toy. They select the background/foreground space as well as possible symbols for their advertisement, with consideration... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 5–8 Visual Arts Education and English Language Arts)
Provided by: ArtsEdge
Media Awareness, Lesson 1
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... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 5–8 Visual Arts Education and English Language Arts)
Provided by: ArtsEdge
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