Artifact 5

As a project in a media and learning class, I had to create an activity that would promote Media Literacy in the context of the language arts curriculum. I published the information in the form of a Web page so that teacher and students can have access to body image activities and links.

Impact:

This lesson meets the language arts course of study objectives. It also was designed to increase the awareness of body image in the media. It focuses on how society emphasizes the importance of appearing perfect and how this perfect image is not always as it seems. The media has tools that can change images, take away flaws, and even distort images so that the reader will think a certain way. It is important for children to talk about this, and write how they feel. This web page is available for teacher and student use.

Alignment:
This lesson plan will be correlated to use with the fifth grade standard course of study in the area of computer skills and Language Arts. It is available on the internet for others to view. Links to sites such as a Kids' Corner from the center for Media Literacy, a body image site, and even a site on photo images are included (10.3). In this lesson, students are asked to search the internet, look through magazines, and view videos in order to find images that portray a celebrity in a way that makes a reader think a certain way (12.7). The students will write poetry that best describes the images that they found on the celebrity. An additional lesson could be done be allowing the children to communicate with other schools through the e-mail system. They could write to other schools on how they feel about this part of society and what they can do about it to change the perception (12.5).