Resources for Teachers - Television

Television Broadcast Ratings - Lesson

This lesson introduces students to the theory behind television ratings and encourages them to explore the commercial pressures driving the medium.

Facing TV Violence: Rewriting the Script - Lesson

This lesson teaches children that television doesn't always offer the best solutions to conflict.

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.

Violence in Sports

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 inherited stereotypes, and to the images presented in the media - film and television, rock music, newspapers and magazines.