This module supports students to understand what happens when a player crosses the bridge from fun gaming to excessive or risky gaming. Lessons explore the risks and potential consequences, and encourage students to talk about how online gaming can make them feel.
Target audience:
Upper primary students (years 5 and 6)
Lesson duration:
2 x 90-min lessons
Note: Not all kinaesthetic learning activities will be achievable within this timeframe, so teachers may select a smaller number of activities, or extend the number of classes taken, to further explore each module.
Discussion themes:
The discussion themes refer directly to events in each video and are provided as suggestions for teachers to identify issues and lead discussions with students.
Video resource:
Play the video in full and allow some time for quick comments afterwards. Note: the videos include captions that can be turned on or off.
Starters:
Review of previous themes, pre-assessment Know / Wonder / Learned (KWL) charts, key words chart, watch video.
Kinaesthetic learning activities:
30-60 mins each
Kinaesthetic learning is about learning through hands-on experience - touching, doing, experiencing, or being physically engaged. The activities are linked to points in the videos, discussion starters and themes.
Related resources:
To understand some of the risks and potential consequences associated with gaming.
Critical and creative thinking, drama, English, ethical capability, personal and social capability, visual arts, health and physical education.
