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Resources for Teachers - Religion

  • Lesson Plan
    Bias and Crime in Media - Lesson
    In this lesson students are introduced to the key media literacy concept that media are constructions that re-present reality and consider how representations of crime in news and entertainment media may influence how we perceive members of particular groups.
  • Lesson Plan
    Bias in News Sources - Lesson
    In this lesson students consider the meaning of the words “bias” and “prejudice” and consider how bias may be found even at the level of individual words due to connotation.
  • Lesson Plan
    First Person - Lesson
    In this lesson students consider diversity representation in video games by identifying examples of diversity in the games they play, comparing their findings to statistics on diversity in the Canadian population.
  • Lesson Plan
    Miscast and Seldom Seen - Lesson
    In this lesson students consider how well their favourite TV shows, movies and video games reflect the diversity of Canadian society.
  • Tutorial
    That's Not Me - Tutorial
  • Lesson Plan
    Who's Telling My Story? - Lesson
    In this lesson students learn about the history of blackface and other examples of majority-group actors playing minority-group characters such as White actors playing Asian and Aboriginal characters and non-disabled actors playing disabled characters.

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