Artifact 1

This web page was developed as a part of my Media and Learning Course during my pre-service training; it includes a media literacy lesson plan for third and fourth grade classes, links to media literacy resources, and a reflection on my experience teaching this lesson. The students were asked to view numerous pictures of store windows and examine the components that made up the windows. Then using their observations, the students will create their own store windows. The purposes and audience of store windows are discussed in the lesson.

This lesson corresponds to the NC Standard Course of Study for both Language Arts and Information Skills; these are listed in the lesson. As a web page, this lesson plan will be available to other teachers. The reflection on the process of teaching the lesson will be useful for any teacher considering this resource.

The web page includes a detailed lesson plan with visuals that help to teach students how to analyze and create an aspect of media literacy (12.1). Targets and links within the page help people navigate easily through the lesson plan. The visuals give teachers an idea of the kinds of materials they might use; outside links help teachers find related resources (10.3, 11.2). The lesson plan includes instructions on how to break up the class into groups and suggestions on how the students should complete the project (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 (11.4). As they look at my reflection and examples of student work, they will see how students in the past have managed the activities involved in this lesson (12.3).