This week I exclaimed a lesson plan on the effects of too much screen time. Excessive screen time can cause trouble sleeping, mood changes, and alterations to your brain. The lesson plan is best for grades 6-12, although there is a version adapted to a 4th grade reading level. It starts with a reading vocabulary list, followed by a reading comprehension activity, finished by a data collection and analysis activity. As a math teacher I would alter this lesson to focus more on data collecting and analysis. Students would still complete the reading, in order to learn the dangers of too much screen time. Then using the data collected from the students the class would find their individual average time spent looking at a screen a day, then using those answers find the average for the class. This lesson could be made into a lesson on the measures of central tendency (mean, median, and mode).
I enjoyed the resources this lesson provided, I think it is important to give vocabulary lists especially if the topic is unfamiliar with the students. However rather than just giving students a sheet with the definitions filled out, I would turn it into a matching activity. That way the students have to be engaged and play an active part of the lesson. As far as the reading comprehension questions go, I think they could have provided different questions for different grade levels. High school sophomores and 6th graders have different reasons for looking at screens, and their questions should reflect their experiences. The critical thinking writing prompts did give different prompts based on grade level. Screen time is becoming a bigger and bigger issue as technology progresses. As educators it is important we warn our students of the dangers of too much screen time regardless of the grade level or subject we teach.
Abuse, N. I. on D. (n.d.). Can Too Much Screen Time Harm You? National Institute on Drug Abuse. Retrieved November 12, 2022, from https://nida.nih.gov/research-topics/parents-educators/lesson-plans/can-too-much-screen-time-harm-you
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