News Consumption And Mental Health

Curriculum codes: 

• Year 6: ACELY1708
• Year 7: ACELT1619
• Year 8: ACELT1807
• Year 9: ACELA1551
• Year 10: ACELY1754

Ideal for: Upper Primary, Lower Secondary, Upper Secondary

Themes: 

• think and connect 

Time required: 20 minutes (but requires approximately five minutes to fill in a table per day for a week)

Curriculum connections: English, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability

Tips for Parents and Carers
This activity provides you kid/s with a tracker for how they are consuming news and how it makes them feel. This could provide a great opportunity to check in with children about how they feel about the current pandemic.

Learning@Home resources are designed for parents and teachers to use with children in the home environment. They can be used as stand-alone activities or built into existing curriculum-aligned learning programs. Our Learning@Home series includes two types of resources. The first are fun and challenging real-world activities for all ages, the second are self-directed lessons for upper primary and secondary students. These lessons support independent learning in remote or school settings.