Cover lesson · Health and Well-being · Year 3 · Beginner
DCF: Citizenship → Health and well-being
Also assessed, LNF: Numeracy → Learning that statistics represent data and that probability models chance helps us make informed inferences and decisions → Representing data
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What this practises: noticing which everyday activities use screens and digital devices, and talking about the good and not so good sides of screen time. Pupils also tally an invented class survey and turn it into a pictogram where one symbol stands for 2 pupils, so the tally, totals and pictogram are real numeracy and are marked from the sheet.
Print: this sheet, one per pupil. No computers are needed. Pupils need a pencil and coloured pencils. Pupils should not be asked to share how much screen time they have at home.
Run: 5 min read “What you are doing” aloud and ask “What things have screens?” · 10 min Step 1 · 10 min Step 2 · 15 min Step 3 · 8 min Step 4 · 10 min Step 5. Total 58 minutes.
Collect: this sheet. Steps 2, 3 and 4 are the numeracy evidence (tally, totals, pictogram with a key, answers read from the pictogram). Steps 1 and 5 are the digital competence evidence. Quick checks: totals Videos 5, Games 4, Park 6, Bike 3, Reading 2, Swimming 4, which add up to 24; 9 pupils chose a screen activity and 15 did not.
Class 3 at Ysgol Bryn Coed asked everyone: “What did you spend most time doing on Saturday morning?” You will sort activities into screen time and green time (no screen), count the class answers and draw a pictogram. Then you will think about what is good and not so good about screens.
Ysgol Bryn Coed, Class 3 and their answers are invented for practice.
Write each activity in the right column.
| watching cartoons on the TV | building a den in the garden | a video call with Nain |
| reading a comic | playing a game on a tablet | riding a scooter |
| taking photos on a phone | playing football in the park | drawing with crayons |
| watching a film at the cinema | listening to a story on a smart speaker | swimming at the leisure centre |
| Uses a screen | No screen |
|---|---|
One activity uses a digital device but has no screen. Which one is it?
Here are the 24 answers from Class 3. Make a tally mark for each answer, then write the total. Tick each answer as you count it so you do not count it twice.
Park · Videos · Swimming · Games · Park · Reading · Videos · Bike · Park · Games · Swimming · Videos
Park · Bike · Games · Reading · Videos · Swimming · Park · Games · Bike · Videos · Swimming · Park
Videos means watching videos. Games means playing video games. Bike means riding a bike or scooter.
| Activity | Screen? | Tally | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Videos | Yes | ||
| Games | Yes | ||
| Park | No | ||
| Bike | No | ||
| Reading | No | ||
| Swimming | No | ||
| Add up all the totals. It should be 24. | |||
Use the key. One face stands for 2 pupils. Half a face stands for 1 pupil. Draw the faces in pencil, then colour them.
Key: = 2 pupils = 1 pupil
What Class 3 did most on Saturday morning
| Activity | Faces |
|---|---|
| Videos | |
| Games | |
| Park | |
| Bike | |
| Reading | |
| Swimming |
(a) Which activity did the most pupils choose? How many pupils?
(b) How many pupils chose a screen activity? Show your adding.
(c) How many pupils chose a no screen activity? Check: your answers to (b) and (c) should add up to 24.
(d) How many more pupils went to the park than read a book?
(e) Sam says: “Most of Class 3 spent Saturday morning on screens.” Is Sam right? Use numbers to explain.
(a) Write 2 good things about screens and digital devices.
(b) Write 2 things that are not so good if we spend too long on screens.
(c) Doctors say children should be active for at least 60 minutes a day. Plan a balanced Saturday morning: write or draw 3 activities. Include 1 screen activity and say how long it lasts, and at least 1 activity that gets you moving.