Resources for Teachers - Television

Reality Check

This public awareness program, created in partnership between MediaSmarts and the Facebook Canadian Election Integrity Initiative, focuses on authentication of online information.

Television News - Lesson

This lesson is part of a unit that explores news journalism across the media.

Violence in Sports

In this lesson, students explore the gratuitous use of violence in sports.

Teaching Media: Media Techniques

In this lesson, students learn how different media use different techniques to communicate meaning.

Villains, Heroes and Heroines - Lesson

This lesson introduces students to some of the myth-building techniques of television by comparing super heroes and super villains from television to heroes and villains in the real world and by conveying how violence and action are used to give power to characters.