Television

In this lesson, students explore the gratuitous use of violence in sports.

This lesson develops a beginning awareness by students of how they feel towards, and respond to, different sports, and how the media represents athletics.

This lesson is one of a five-part unit that provides teachers with ideas for teaching TV in the elementary classroom. In this lesson, students look at the equipment used to produce television and film, and learn about the members of the film production team and their duties.

In this lesson, students explore the ways in which the media frame is used to tell stories.

In this lesson, students learn how media influence how we see the world and send intentional and unintentional messages.

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.

In this lesson, students identify the differences between TV families and real families by analyzing the conventions used by TV shows; and by comparing the problems and actions of television families to real world families.

This lesson encourages children to explore the differences between their real families and TV families by imagining how their own families might be portrayed on a television show.

In this lesson, students learn how the media construct reality by studying the families portrayed on television, and comparing them to the real-life families they know: their own, and those of their peers.