Resources for Teachers - Television
In this lesson, students identify stereotypical images of girls and women as represented by female action heroes.
This lesson encourages students to analyze the forensic science crime drama as a television show genre.
This lesson looks at the increasing prominence of gambling in the media, particularly movies and television.
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.
The intense media coverage that accompanies traumatic events, such as war, acts of terrorism and natural disasters, can be very disturbing for children and teens. Certain young people are particularly vulnerable and some can be seriously distressed simply by watching TV replays of such events.
Parents, educators, health practitioners and others who work with kids can help to lessen anxieties arising from the coverage of catastrophic events.