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Advertising and Male Violence

To make students aware of the ways in which male violence is used and promoted in advertising.

Body Image, Gender Representation, Marketing & Consumerism, Online Marketing, Violence

Avatars and body image

In this lesson students are introduced to the concept of "avatars" and share their experiences creating and playing avatars in video games and virtual worlds. They then create avatars using a program

Body Image, Digital Citizenship, Digital Health, Gender Representation, Internet & Mobile, Stereotyping, Video Games

Body image and social media: Escaping the comparison trap

In this lesson, students consider the ways in which social media may prompt them to compare themselves with others, and the impacts that can have on body image and self-esteem. They analyze how the

Body Image, Internet & Mobile, Social Networking

Body Positive Ads

This lesson helps students understand the relationship between body image and marketing by exploring Aerie and Dove’s body positive advertising campaigns. Students begin by reading about the impact

Body Image, Marketing & Consumerism

Exposing Gender Stereotypes - Lesson

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

Body Image, Gender Representation, Movies, Music, Stereotyping, Television

Gender Stereotypes and Body Image - Lesson

These lessons are an adaptation of Grade 8 lessons from the Curriculum Healthy Relationships, by Men For Change, Halifax, Nova Scotia, a 53-activity, three-year curriculum designed for teens.

Body Image, Gender Representation, Stereotyping

Image Gap - Lesson

This lesson helps students understand how self-image can influence lifestyle choices.

Body Image, Marketing & Consumerism, Tobacco Marketing

Media Safety Tips: Tweens (10-13 years old)

Media risksThe risks that kids encounter in media fall into four categories:Content risks, where kids are exposed to or engage with harmful content such as violence, hate, or sexualized media;

Authenticating Information, Body Image, Digital Citizenship, Digital Health, Marketing & Consumerism, Online Hate, Pornography, Privacy, Stereotyping

Mirror Image - Lesson

In this lesson, students analyze their own body image and consider what they wish they could change.

Body Image, Gender Representation, Marketing & Consumerism, Tobacco Marketing

Prejudice and Body Image

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".

Body Image, Stereotyping

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