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These graphic organizers created by Mrs. Dahlin’s third grade class compare newspapers and social media.
Where? • • • • •
Why?
Read the news Learn new things Real information
• • • •
Town hall Mailbox Post Office Outside on the porch School
This question sparked a lively lesson in Mrs. Dahlin’s third-grade classroom in Chehalis, Washington.
Knowledge: What is going to happen and what has already happened • Fun activities • Reading • How to help
Mrs. Dahlin wondered what her third graders thought about newspapers. Most of her students didn’t see newspapers at home or even around town. She also wondered if social media was replacing newspapers in her students’ minds. But are newspapers and social media the same thing? Because her students receive Kid Scoop News each month thanks to a generous donation, they had enough experience to compare reading a newspaper to what they knew about social media. The students discussed this question and organized their answers into graphic organizers. They found ways that newspapers and social media are the same and ways they are different.
NEWSPAPER
Who?
What?
Read Play games Color
• •
Kids Everyone
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Learn real info Have fun with it Make boats and hats from paper
Where? • • • • • • • Phones
• • • See things you did not know about Photos (people, animals, trains, cars) Videos (dancers, food, cars, animals, everything) Why?
Computers (but if you are at school, they will block it) iPad
The completed graphic organizers give you an idea of what these third graders thought.
WhatsApp Instagram Facebook TikTok
SOCIAL MEDIA
Who?
What?
• • • • •
Teens Adults Parents
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Watch it “Like” it Subscribe Find out new things Comment Share it You can post videos on it. AI makes it “cooler” than reality
Grandparents NOT little kids Class Discussion: Should kids use social media?
YES (6 votes) NO (12 votes)
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