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Gender and Media #1

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students expand their knowledge to not focus on stereotypes. They practice using new vocabulary words and analyze different media for the use of stereotypes.
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Gender and Media #2

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are introduced to media literacy and deconstruction. They analyze the media's use of gender roles and body image. They voice their opinions about media messages and how to change them.
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Gender and Media #3

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify media messages about gender and body image. They discuss how they can change these messages. They create their own media message about gender and body image.
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Gender and Media Introduction

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze media clips and discover how the media helps us form ideas about men and women and their roles in society. They discover some of their own preconceptions about these roles and answer questions.
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Media as a Representation of Reality

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine different viewpoints and representations of events. They discover that viewpoints are constructed from different points of view. They also examine how they represent real events.
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Phenomenology Lesson Plan #2: Content Part #1

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine different types of media. They identify the bias in film and share them with the class. They also examine their personal biases and write about them.
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Phenomenology Lesson Plan #3: Content Part 2

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine magazine advertisements to identify how the product is being sold to the consumer. They work together in groups to respond to ads and explain why they are successful.
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Phenomenology Lesson Plan #7: Theme Part 2

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students summarize the Phenomenology unit in this lesson. They identify character and universal themes from different films. They create a ten question survey for reviewer responses.
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Disability

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers examine the role of media when dealing with the disabled. They participate in a community audit of different facilities and how they help the disabled.
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Media/Citizenship: Speed 3

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Learners examine data about the effects of speed in car accidents. They create their own media campaign about safety while driving. They share their ideas with the class.
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Media/Citizenship: Speed 1

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students investigate media images of cars and speed. They examine drivers' atitudes to speed by completing an activity sheet and responding to press reports about speeding drivers.
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Skepticism Toward Government

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explain how the media portrays certain events and its effects on public opinion of government. They focus on Watergate, the Vietnam War, and the Clinton impeachment. They write essays about skepticism promoted by the media.
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Discussion Guide: Grades 9-12

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers discover that wars and human rights abuses are going on around the world every day. They discuss how the media decide what should be covered and what should not?
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Celebrate the Arts

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the responsibilities of people working in advertising. They create a campaign to support the arts including advertisements in several different media. Length of unit depends on number of projects completed.
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Advertisements

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students access a variety of resources on the Internet regarding advertising and identifying intended messages conveyed through the media. They play interactive games, view video clips, read guidelines, and explore a student-created...
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Children's Media and Censorship

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students examine the point of censorship when dealing with Students. They explore essays by Stephen King.
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Beneath the News: Who's Doing What to Whom, and Who Cares?

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students investigate the differences between various forms of media (print, radio, TV, Internet). They determine the target audience for each and compare exposure around the world. They write a short story and share it with the class.
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VH1 AIDS: A Pop Culture History Lesson 1

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students observe and discuss the relationships between music, media, and popular culture.
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Citizens and the Media / Lesson : 3 Compare and Contrast Daily Newspapers for fact, opinion and bias

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students compare and contrast a variety of daily newspapers in order to detect bias. They critically analyze the role the media plays in responsibly reporting government activities.
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America Responds to Terrorism

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss truths and myths dealing with the subject of terrorism.
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Analyzing Messages in Post-September 11th Songs

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine persuasive techniques in the media and help them think critically about the messages they receive from stories and songs about themselves, and political issues.
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What Does Advertising Say About Smoking?

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Learners analyze the decision to smoke and how it is influenced by peer pressure. The discuss ways to say no to tobacco use.
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The Junk Mail Explosion

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students read direct mail advertising critically, identify persuasion techniques, employ intellectual defenses against persuasive techniques and neatly organize junk mail by persuasive technique.
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High Exposure

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students interpret data they receive from the media, discuss possible misinterpretation of data from the media and correctly respond to the misconception quiz question.