Teaching TV: Television as a Story Teller
This lesson is one of a five-part unit that provides teachers with ideas for teaching TV in the elementary classroom.
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 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.
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.
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.