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A new study reports that screen time is prevalent under grandparents' care.
If you are a grandparent (or anyone else caring for children), and you want to enrich children's media experience, we offer media-based learning materials and activities for kids as young as 8 years old. Like all of our resources, these fun learning tools are free for everyone.
Many of those films, series and games are also available for free, too.
More in the posts that follow below ! 1/n
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-screen-prevalent-grandparents.html
Our free film discussion guides are appropriate for children as young as 8 years old. They can help students dig deeper into the facts and themes of a film -- on their own, in discussion with others, or as a prompt for journaling and reflection.
Some of our guides are also available in Spanish.
We offer discussion guides for:
- Short films like Golden Age Karate (5 minutes);
- Disney films like Hidden Figures;
- Documentaries like Jane about Dr. Jane Goodall;
- Docu-series like Genius about Albert Einstein;
- and more!
Learn more at the link below and read on for even more resources in the next post. 2/3
https://journeysinfilm.org/articles/discussion-guides-make-screening-films-easy/
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We also offer free lesson plans and activities, for children as young as 8 years, across a range of school subjects. These are great for homeschooling and classroom use -- and they can provide fun, educational ways to keep kids busy and learning.
Several guides include hands-on arts and crafts activities, like the instructions for making a bug kite for the free short film The Love Bugs. (For ages 8 and up).
Many lessons also include printable hand-outs that kids can work on solo.
Some guides are also available in Spanish and Portuguese.
We offer lesson plans & activities for He Named Me Malala, The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind, Whale Rider and more!
Learn more at the link below and read on for some fun short film activities in the next post. /3
https://journeysinfilm.org/articles/make-teaching-easy-with-classroom-ready-lesson-plans/
#Parenting #Families #MediaLiteracy #Childcare #Babysitting #Homeschooling #GlobalEducation #Education @education
Finally, we've just launched a new series of free creative prompts based on super-short films that are bite-sized for kids' attention spans.
Watch a film that's as short as one minute, then springboard off a prompt for reflection, journaling, discussion or creative writing.
We offer prompts for a super short films across a range of subjects and themes, suitable for kids of al ages. (Yes, the films and prompts are all free.) /4
https://journeysinfilm.org/articles/watch-and-write-new-classroom-warm-up-tool/
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Shhh! Don' tell anybody, but we are in the process of a ground-up redesign of our website to make our film-based learning resources easier for everyone to find.
In the meantime, we're aware that it can be hard to find things on our site. We'd love to help you find what you need.
Take a look around our library yourself. If you'd like help finding anything by film length, student age, subject, theme, activity, or anything else, drop us a note on Mastodon or through the contact section of our site, and we'll do our best to find you the very thing.
Also, if you're using resources as a grandparent, parent or babysitter, or otherwise outside a formal learning environment, we'd love to hear what you're using and how it works for you. Drop us a note here in the Fediverse or contact us through our site. /5
https://journeysinfilm.org/library/
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