Lesson 1: Living Live!. Screens include: Computer Videogames TV Movies DVDs Cell phones iPods.

Lesson 1:Living Live!

Screens include:

• Computer

• Videogames

• TV

• Movies

• DVDs

• Cell phones

• iPods

Where do you see screens?

• At school• At home• Car• Store• Library

7 hours and 40 minutes per day!Over 53 hours per week!

Rideout, V.J., et al. (2010). Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8-18 Year-olds (A Kaiser Family Foundation Study)

Children, ages 8-18, spend more time in front of the computer, TV, and game screen than any other activity in their lives, besides sleeping!

Less school-time than screen-time??

School-Time

~7 hours/dayx 5 days/week 35 hours

Screen-Time

~7.67 hours/dayx 7 days/week 53.7 hours<

Healthy uses of screens

• Doing homework on the computer

• Learning about new places

• Educational games

• Nature channel

• Learning to type

Unhealthy uses of screens• Forgetting to do homework

• “Vegging out” for hours

• Staying up too late

• Ignoring friends and family

• Watch a scary movie have bad dreams

What’s a Verb?

• An action – something you DO!• An activity (not sitting in front of a screen)

–Physical activity–Hobby–Game

Examples of Verbs!

Drawing Your Favorite Screen-free Activities

If I watched less TV, I could do more…

Draw your 3 favorite screen-free activities!

Goal Setting Activity

Tonight/this week, I will (do this screen-free activity) instead of (watching this type of screen).

Fill in the blanks!

Have fun and live live!