Angela Rogers
RCOE, Appalachian
State University
The purpose of this web page is to display a lesson plan on the web describing a media literacy activity that will be taught to elementary students. The lesson plan covers the competencies and goals of the writing skills curriculum. This is an upper elementary lesson for fourth, fifth, or sixth grades involving narrative writing skills, but it could easily be adapted to suit all grade levels. This project meets appropriate Information Skills Curriculum objectives and goals (10.4). The learner will experience a wide variety of reading, listening, and viewing resources to interact with ideas in an information intensive environment. The learner will explore reading, listening, viewing sources and formats. The students will acknowledge ownership of ideas in a variety of formats, identify elements of composition, identify characteristics of various media formats, investigate potential sources of information outside the school, and learn to select and use sources and formats of information independently (12.7). Throughout the lesson students will view a video clip with no audio input (10.2). They will then proceed to narrate the scene they watched and produce their own dialogue. After completion of the dialogue, the class will view the clip with the audio input and then compare the meanings that were constructed in the various groups. There are many Media Literacy Key Concepts included in this web page (10.1). The web page also includes an extensive amount of related links to informational sites (10.3).