Comparing Real Families to TV Families - Lesson
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.
Watching the Elections - Lesson
In this lesson students look at how elections are media events.
Girls and Boys on Television
In this lesson, students discuss television programming aimed at children and how girls and boys are portrayed in it. Students illustrate what they dislike about portrayals of girls or boys and then create their own TV character who will counter the illustrated negative portrayals.
Television News - Lesson
This lesson is part of a unit that explores news journalism across the media.
Video Production of a Newscast - Lesson
In this lesson, students will produce a 20 minute news broadcast.