Artifact 3

Media Literacy Web Page
This lesson plan was developed to present an activity dealing with media literacy to students and teachers. The students are asked to take apart a newspaper and examine the sections. Then using their observations, the students will create their own newspaper. The purposes and audience of newspapers are discussed in the lesson. The web page includes a detailed lesson plan and activity sheets that help to teach an aspect of media literacy (11.2). This lesson was written with a combined second and third grade class in mind. The lesson plan includes instructions on how to break up the class into groups and suggestions on how the students should divide the work load (12.5). This lesson plan and web page were put on the web so that other teachers and perspective teachers will have access to it to either use all or part of it in their own classrooms and to fit their own purposes (12.3).