My Media Choices

What makes a healthy media choice?

We all make choices every day about the media we consume and create. But do kids understand what makes a media choice healthy or not? Hint: It's about more than just screen time. Use the activities in this lesson to give kids a framework for making informed media choices.

Objectives:

• Learn the "What? When? How Much?" framework for describing their media choices.
• Use this framework and their emotional responses to evaluate how healthy different types of media choices are.
• Begin to develop their own definition of a healthy media balance.

Vocabulary

• media 
• media balance 
• media choices

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