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.
In this lesson, students will produce a 20 minute news broadcast.
In this lesson, children begin to think about basic concepts such as how audiences interpret meaning, and the constructed world of television and film.
In this lesson, students learn how different media use different techniques to communicate meaning.
In this lesson, students learn how media influence how we see the world and send intentional and unintentional messages.
In this lesson, students explore the ways in which the media frame is used to tell stories.
In this lesson, students learn about media as a source of information, and how this information is presented from a particular point of view.
"Television Newscasts" helps students develop a critical awareness of how television news is shaped and manipulated and how they, as audience members may be affected by this.
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.
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.)