Resources for Teachers - Television

Video Production of a Newscast - Lesson

In this lesson, students will produce a 20 minute news broadcast.

Comparing Real Families to TV Families - Lesson

In this lesson, students learn how the media construct reality by studying the families portrayed on television, and comparing them to the real-life families they know: their own, and those of their peers.

Television News - Lesson

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

Violence on Film: The Ratings Game - Lesson

To introduce students to the rating systems for films, videos and television and to the issues that surround these classifications.

Watching the Elections - Lesson

In this lesson students look at how elections are media events.