Research Porject: TV cartoons for children.

The aim of this research project is to search for information about how the TV cartoons that children watch on TV affect their behaviour. 

We chose the subtitle: What TV cartoon are you? It is a good idea to make the students to involve in the different activites and to encourage them to participate in a good way, because we need their truth to obtain useful information. 

From my point of view I think that it is an interesting project, and the different activities that we have prepared will help the research group that will develop this project. It is a good way to make them to realise that isn't easy to be a teacher, and that being a teacher implies involvement and vocation. 

 Nowadays we live in a kind of Technological Society and for that reason, children are playing fewer and fewer in the street; they prefer to spend time watching television or playing video games. Because of this, it has been found that the behavior of children has been altered compared to the behavior that children of earlier periods had.

It is interesting to investigate about children’s behaviours in relation with new technologies but particularly in relation with the television. It will depend on the cartoons that they watch or on the time that they spend watching TV. many studies show that the behavior of children in our society today is much more aggressive; in general, nine year-olds children prefer to watch cartoons in which predominates the movement and physical activity, instead of watching cartoons in which predominates the movement and physical activity. Some examples of these cartoons are SpongeBob SquarePants and The Fairly OddParents.

Besides,we explain what cartoons are more appropriate for children, which are educative, contribute values and moral principles, use intelligence against violence and with them the children learn to be honest and better people. Also we show how some cartoons are directed to an adult public and which aren’t recommended for the correct social and educational development of the children.

Therefore in this study we try to change this behavior through the awareness of both parents and students, so that children can be self-critical with the pictures they see and for parents to know which are the most convenient cartoons for his age.

 The context of this research project is a State School called “CEIP. Simón Abril “. It is located in Tarazona de la Mancha (Town of Albacete, Castilla- La Mancha).

There are 2 classroom per grade with 20 pupils in each classroom. Our project is going to be focused on 3rd grade students because we think that at these ages children start watching TV cartoons that aren’t appropriate for them.

The timing of this research project is 3 weeks (from 7th of November to 25th of November of 2016)

Our research team is composed by:

• Alba Becerra Jiménez as a mother of a child of 3rd Grade.
• María Calero Méndez as the tutor of the Group B of the 3rd Grade.
• Ana Cristina González Rubio as the Art teacher of the 3rd Grade’s students.
• Ana Belén Molina Rodríguez as the Social Sciences teacher of the 3rd Grade’s students.
• Marta Violero Izquierdo as the Music teacher of the 3rd Grade’s students.

 The Theoretical Framework of this research project is explained in the next table:

Now, here there is explained the design week, in which there are going to be prepared all the activities, meetings that are going to be develop during the developmental week. There is also explained the development of the developmental week, adding the objectives of each activity. 

This project will be developed in November, 2016.

The design week will be developed during the second week of November, and the developmental week during the third and the fourth weeks of Nomvember. 

 This questionnaire will be answered by the students. Then, they will give it to the teacher/tutor. 

 This questionnaire will be answered by the families. Then, the teacher/tutor will analyse both questionnaires to compare the answers and to make conclusions. 

 This note is for information for families. The student may give it at home to their parents to know the necessary information about the meeting for families about TV cartoons. 

The idea is that we have done this project for a research group to develop. We have prepared the instructions to develop this project and the teachers of the school and the necessary people have to put it into practice. 

It is only an idea of research project. During the practice could be setbacks. 

What do you think? Would you change anything? 
If you want to tell me something about this research project you can give me a comment or you can send me an email to this address: albialbita@outlook.es