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Lessons on Media and Global Development for Grades 7-12
Lessons on Media and Global Development for Grades 7-12
This lesson helps students understand how self-image can influence lifestyle choices.
This is the first of three lessons that address gender stereotypes. The objective of this lesson is to encourage students to develop their own critical intelligence with regard to culturally inherited stereotypes, and to the images presented in the media - film and television, rock music, newspapers and magazines.
In this lesson, students analyze their own body image and consider what they wish they could change.
In this lesson, students explore how advertising leverage can lead to censorship of information about public health issues.
In this five- or six-day unit, students create a video podcast to present balanced, unbiased perspectives on global development issues.
In this lesson, students learn how the tobacco industry targets the needs, wishes and desires of young people in order to sell cigarettes.