TV Stereotypes - Lesson
This lesson familiarises students with stereotypes and helps them understand the role that stereotypes play in television's portrayal of life.
This lesson familiarises students with stereotypes and helps them understand the role that stereotypes play in television's portrayal of life.
In this three-day unit, students assess media coverage of natural disasters and their aftermath. Students explore how sensationalism plays a role in determining what is newsworthy, and how that can distort our perception of issues in developing nations.
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.
This lesson lets students take a good look at our society's pressures to conform to standards of beauty - particularly to be thin - and the related prejudice against being "overweight".
They are designed to accompany a full suite of Break the Fake resources including a workshop, tip sheets,
In this lesson, students look at how gender stereotyping may discourage young women from becoming involved in politics.
In this lesson, students develop a deeper understanding of scapegoating and othering and how these factors may contribute to the promotion of hatred and intolerance.
In this lesson students learn about the ways that propaganda techniques are used to promote hatred and intolerance online.
Two of the most important kinds of information we look for online are about health and science. These can have a big effect on decisions we make about our own lives and our opinions on controversial issues.