This lesson familiarises students with stereotypes and helps them understand the role that stereotypes play in television’s portrayal of life.

In this lesson, students become aware of the types and amounts of violence in children’s programming, and how media violence influences young viewers.

This lesson helps students become more aware of the stereotypes associated with portrayals of students and teachers on TV. (It is also a good follow-up to the elementary lesson TV Stereotypes.)

This lesson introduces students to some of the myth-building techniques of television by comparing super heroes and super villains from television to heroes and villains in the real world and by conveying how violence and action are used to give power to characters.