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Museum of Broadcast Communications: Golden Age of Television Drama

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an article on the Golden Age of television drama (1949-1960). Discusses the different shows that were on in that era and why it is called "the golden age of television."
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Princeton Review

The Princeton Review: Career Television Producer

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of the career of a television producer, including how to get into the career, related careers, the projected quality of life, and future job outlook. Well organized information, very readable, and easy to navigate.
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Media Smarts

Media Smarts: Teaching Tv: Enjoying Television Lesson

For Students 1st - 6th
MediaSmarts provides digital and media literacy lessons for students. In this lesson, young students will become reflect about television programs they enjoy and analyze why they enjoy them.
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Media Smarts

Media Smarts:teaching Tv: Critically Evaluating Tv Lesson

For Students 1st - 6th Standards
MediaSmarts provides digital and media literacy lessons for students. In this instructional activity, students will learn to watch and listen to a television with a critical lense
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The Impact of Television on News Media

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore the impact of television on news media.
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Great Idea Finder

The Great Idea Finder: Television

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides an introduction to the ideas behind the invention of television. The site includes a good selection of links to more information and a bibliography.
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Read Works

Read Works: Passages: Grade 2: When Television Became Colorful

For Teachers 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a non-fiction article about colored television and answer questions in comprehension, sequencing, inferences, main idea, transitions, and more.
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Media Line: Interactive Resource for Television Industry

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a multimedia information center for journalists working (or hoping to work) in television. Great visuals and reader-friendly copy.
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School Tv: Talent, It Goes a Long Way

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how to get the most out of your TV anchors when they are delivery the news. This SchoolTV article stresses personality, practice, deadlines, and smiling as major areas for kids to understand.
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School Tv: Music for Video Production

For Students 9th - 10th
Choosing music for TV production is always a difficult task for students to perform. Questionable lyrics and copyright laws are always an issue. SchoolTV will shed some light on these problems in this "Music for Video Production" article.
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Princeton Review

The Princeton Review: Career Television Reporter

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of the career of a television reporter, including how to get into the career, related careers, the projected quality of life, and the future outlook for jobs. Well organized information, very readable, and easy to navigate.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Camp Tv

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Welcome to CAMP TV-a day camp experience in your living room! An enthusiastic head counselor, played by Zachary Noah Piser, guides "campers" as they learn through play. Content partners include the New York Public Library, Lincoln Center...
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Geo Television Network

For Students 9th - 10th
Television network in Pakistan that entertains Pakistanis, provides national and international news, and more. Audio and video news in urdu are available.
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Children Now: Talking With Kids About Tough Issues: Tv News

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This resource provides helpful information for parents and adults to talk with children about what they see on television.
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Media Smarts

Media Smarts: Teaching Tv: Television as a Story Teller Lesson

For Teachers K - 1st
This lesson plan will help young students explore how television can be used to tell stories.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Understanding Television

For Students 9th - 10th
A course from MIT on the cultural history of television. Includes readings, assignments, exams, and videos of lectures.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Television Advertising: A Brief History

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the history of television advertising. Includes the following sections: "Radio Precedents," "The Single-sponsor Era," and "The Triumph of the Magazine Concept."
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History tv.net

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has an archive of original photographs of important events and broadcasts in the early history of experimental television. Concentrates on the archive of photographs from Vladimir Kosma Zworykin.
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Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: Land of Television

For Students 5th - 8th
The advent of increased television programming helped create a national popular culture. Read about the many kinds of television programs offered in the 1950s.
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Wessels Living History Farm

Living History Farm: Television During the 1950s and 60s

For Students 9th - 10th
Read a history of television in the 1950s and 1960s to see how it became such a cultural icon. Find out about the many genres of television that were broadcast during that time.
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National Academy of Engineering

Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century: Radio and Television

For Students 9th - 10th
Learners explore radio and television in the 20th century. Some topics investigated are cathode-ray tubes, radio broadcasting, and high-definition televisions. The resource consists of historical information, a timeline, and a personal...
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Television Heaven: The Invention of Television

For Students 9th - 10th
This timeline from 1923-1931 traces the development of the television not just in the United States, but worldwide.
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Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Poetry: "Turn Off the Tv!" Poetry Theater

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In "Turn Off the TV!," students will participate in a poem in three voices. Adapted from the poem by Bruce Lansky in My Dog Ate My Homework, students will dramatize watching television with their parents.
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Who Is the Inventor of Television?

For Students 9th - 10th
Evidently, this is not an easy question to answer! The television seems to be the international product of a series of discoveries and inventions. Here is an interesting summary of inventors and events leading up to the actual television...

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