Gr.+11+-+12+-+Family+Studies+-+Socialization

Group Members: Jeanine Barette and Sara Fongsamouth Subject: Social Sciences/Family Studies Grade: 11/12 Destination: o,m Topic: Socialization __

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KEY LEARNING: Media has a profound social impact on our lives.

CRITICAL CHALLENGE:Creating an impactful you tube video that accurately reflects the school's use of social media.

TYPE OF CHALLENGE: Rework the Piece

CRITERIA FOR JUDGEMENT: Criteria for impactful & Criteria for accurate
 * grabs audience attention
 * makes valid statements
 * relatable

HABITS OF MIND:
 * inquiring mind (activity 1)
 * self reflective
 * critically minded
 * attention to detail

COURSE: a) HSB (challenge and change) B) HHS 4M (individuals and family in society)

CURRICULUM EXPECTATIONS: CURRICULUM LINK: A) [] B) []


 * Activity 1: Introduction to Agents of Socialization**

i. When students enter classroom have word 'Socialization" on the board and do a word wheel/mind map to draw on prior knowlege and form a working definition. Once a definition has been formed, erase the board and write def. at top leaving space for further discussion.

ii. Pose question to the class- in which ways do humans become socialized? Brainstorm agents of socialization hopeullfy they will come up with family, school, peers and media.

iii. Divide class into groups of four and distribute chart paper and markers. Each group will focus on one agent of socialization. On their chart paper they will be recording the ways in which personality and behaviour is ifluenced by that particular agent. Each student will wirte in a quarter of the placemat alone for 5 mintes. After that they will then decide the top 5 examples and write them on an overhead sheet provided and then will share their ideas to the class.

==== II) Hand out Social Media rating chart and have them get into groups of 4. Using the handout the students are to list the types of medium in the space provided and then rate each ones impactfulness on their lives, this is to be done independantly. Then they should colaborate and begin ranking each meduim. They should end up with a complete ranking of all medium discussed. ====

III) Hold class discussion on the group's findings. Tabulate results on the board being sure to discuss why the groups have ranked things accordingly.
Activity 3: Social Media Revolution

I) Show the following video clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIFYPQjYhv8

II) Once it is over talk with the class about their overall feelings and thoughts about the material presented. This may move into a discussion about how media has changed over the course of the student's lives. Perhaps end the discussion with a look at how this may change life in the future. -

III) Rewatch the video together, pausing after each major statistic (for example: 96% of students have joined a social networking site) for them to record it in their Media Statistic chart. This chart will be used later in this challenge to compare actual stats along with school stats. Discuss the need to pay attention to detail!

IV) Introduce the project: Hand out the assignment sheet and read it together answering any questions the students may have.

V) Assign groups and draw out of a hat the different mediums. The choices will be: Social Networking, Blogging, Podcasts, Wikis, Instant messaging.

** The students will be creating surveys to distribute that will help them understand to what extent social networking tools influence adolescent behaviour. **
===** Step 1) Go over the types of questions asked in a survey: []You may use this website as a guide during the lesson or you could hand out the survey question info sheet and talk about it with them. **===

===** Step 3) Hand out assignment sheet and have them begin working. This process may take up to 3 more periods: t he rest of this period to work on a rough draft, a peiod in the coumputer lab to finish good copy, a period to distribute and a period to analyze data.**===

**Activity 5) Create youtube visual project**
Step 1) Students are to create their visual projects according to the assignment sheet that was handed out. They may choose to use any presentation program or software they have available to them. An online option is www.prezi.com.

Once they have created their presentation they need to upload to youtube. If they used prezi.com the instructions to embed are here [] OR they follow the youtube upload instructions here (put link to your teacher youtube acount here!)


 * Examples of media/socialization studies in the news: a) dominoes pizza on youtube [] b)twitter failed [] Step 4) Students compose ther surveys. I) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIFYPQjYhv8&feature=fvw -Facebook / Myspace - Blogs - Online video gaming / meeting places - instant messaging / texting