Screen Time

Workbook
Bigger Picture
• Practise retrieving explicit and implicit information from a non-fiction
text

• Learn more about healthy habits

The effect of Screen Time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCT5JcCXMPw
Do you need to reduce your screen time?
1. You are having tea with your family. Do you…….

a) Talk to them about your day

b) Keep your phone in your pocket just in case your best friend decides to
Snap Chat you.

c) Keep your phone out and keep checking it all through the meal as you have
to keep up that Snap Chat streak.
Do you need to reduce your screen time?
2. You are at school and you’ve been told to turn your phone off. Do
you……..

a) Turn it off as you arrive into school.

b) Keep it on silent just in case someone needs to get in touch with you, but
only check it at break and lunch time.

c) Keep checking your phone whenever you get a chance.

Do you need to reduce your screen time?
3. The newest Fifa has come out but you are supposed to be going out
for your best friend’s birthday. Do you……

a) Forget Fifa- you are going to spend time with your friend.

b) Go to the party but leave early so that you can get home and get some Fifa
time in.

c) Pretend you’re ill so that you can spend all day on Fifa.
Do you need to reduce your screen time?
4. You have been set the challenge to give up technology for a month.
Do you ……..

a) Think it will be easy as you don’t really spend that much time on technology
anyway.

b) Try your hardest but give up by about week 2.

c) Try to last an hour but fail after 15 minutes.

Do you need to reduce your screen time?
5. You are going on a school trip which you have heard is really good, but you
have also been told that they take your phone off you all day and only give it
back to you for an hour a day. Do you….

a) Decide that that will be fine as you’ll be with all of your friends anyway and sign
up for the trip immediately.

b) Discuss ways with your friends to try to hide one phone so that between you, you
have at least one phone to use.

c) Decide there is no way you can live without your phone for that long every day
and through the letter about the trip into the bin at the first opportunity.
The scores……
• A= 1 point, b= 2 points, c= 3 points

• 1-6= no need to worry about your screen time habits at all!

• 7-11- Watch out that you don’t increase that screen time anymore.

• 12- 15- You’re addicted to screen time and need to have a break!
Your Task:
• Log onto Firefly and open up the article that I have put on there as a
task due for today.

https://saintwilfrids.fireflycloud.net/set-tasks/228133
Questions. Answered on the next slide
1. What percentage of teenagers meet the recommended guidelines
for sleep, exercise and screen time
2. According to Canadian research, how many hours a day should 5 to
17 year olds spend doing exercise?
3. What have the royal college of paediatrics and child health stated
about screen time
4. In the research conducted for Jams paediatrics, what percentage of
teenagers met all three of the recommended behaviours for health
5. In the research conducted for Jama paediatrics, which two sets of
teenagers were the least likely to meet all 3 health
recommendations.
6. What does the article suggest teenagers need to do to improve
their health?
7. Who do you think the article is aimed at?
8. Do you think the writer is saying that teenagers are unhealthy?
Why?/ Why not?
 Answers
1. Less than 10% of teenagers across the UK
2. An hour a day completing moderate to vigorous excessive daily
3. We are unable to recommend a cutoff for children’s screen time overall.” Instead,
they recommend parents focus on whether screen use is interfering with other
activities such as sleep and family time.
4. 9.7% of all participants asked
5. People with symptoms of depression, Overweight girls and obese boys
6. It suggests that teenagers need to ensure that young people get enough sleep and
physical activity during the day
7. I believe that this text is aimed at parents, telling them about what their child may
be doing when left alone in their bedroom with their mobile phones or when their
phone is beside them when they are “supposed to be sleeping”
8. The writer probably isn’t saying that teenagers are unhealthy because he/she only
says about what phones and digital devices can do to teenagers if they have too
much of it and are advising parents on what to do about their child’s physical and
mental health
Extension Questions answered on the next slide

Extension 1:
Fill in the grid to identify the techniques used in each article.

Extension 2:
Which three of the three health recommendations do you meet? What could you do this week to meet
them all?

Extension 3:
Re-write the first two paragraphs of the article making them for a teenage audience. Aim to include
some persuasive techniques to make it more lively and engaging.
 Answers
1. On the next slide
2. I meet 2 of the 3 health recommendations. I am going to try and go straight to sleep rather than
staying up, not wanting to go to sleep or not being able to sleep. I am not a very quick person
to get to sleep so I may need to go to bed earlier to ensure that I get 8+ hours of sleep a night

3. Answered Below

Did you know that more than ¾ of the UK’s teenagers (People aged 13-19) spend more than 2 hours
interacting with different screens daily? Can you imagine this? Yes, I know some of you may be
saying to yourself “That’s a really long time” or “I feel guilty now that I have been on my screen too
long” Well, read on to find out how you can change before it is too late

Ask yourself “How many British teenagers meet the recommended guidelines for sleep, exercise
and screen time”. Well shockingly enough, the answer is 10%. “WHAAAAAAATTTTTT” I hear you say
but it is true so please monitor your usage daily
 Example from the article
Technique
The Article Is Here On The Word Document Attached

Almost 90% of participants reported sleeping for more than eight hours on a school
Statistics
night.

Mark Hamer, a professor of sport and exercise medicine at University College London
and a co-author of the new research, said evidence suggested levels of physical
Expert opinion
activity were the most important of the three behaviours for health. But, he added,
boosting exercise time involved looking at how time was spent on other activities.

Quotations “Screen time was the main driver of not meeting all three recommendations,”

Reference to scientific A new study suggests only 9.7% of 14-year-olds in the UK manage all three
studies recommendations.