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The World in 22 Minutes: Constructing a TV News Lineup

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine several newspapers to compare front pages, headlines, and photographs, experience role of news editor, define and discuss factors that go into news judgements, and arrange twenty-two minute news broadcast by selecting...
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As Seen on TV

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders research how minority groups are represented in media. In this media literacy lesson, 6th graders investigate two YouTube clips of Hugo Chavez and discuss different points of view.
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VOLC TV News Team

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Students produce a 5 minute internet news cast about an active volcano
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Reading: TV, Hamburger, Obesity Gene

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students examine the problem of obesity and fast food. The class is divided into two groups, and read different text. They hold a town hall meeting in which they discuss whether a fast food restaurant should be opened in the town.
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Energy TV

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students rewrite the lyrics of existing songs using the different energy terms as the focus of their work. They break into four groups and form the name of a musical group. Using a tune from a popular group, students make up a song about...
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Bathrooms & Bedrooms

For Students K - 1st
In this bathrooms and bedrooms worksheet, students identify 23 various items that can be found in various rooms of the house. First, they circle all of the items that do not belong in either the bathroom or the bedroom as shown. Then,...
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T Is For Television

For Students K - 1st
In this printing letter t worksheet, learners learn to form both upper and lower case Zaner-Bloser letter t. Students trace dotted examples of the letters before practicing on their own on the blank primary lines.
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T is for Television

For Students K - 1st
In this printing practice worksheet, students follow the dotted lines to form the letters T and t. They print two rows of each. They can see an animation of how to form each letter if they look at the worksheet online before printing it...
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Twelfth Night: Thrusting Greatness Upon the Television 1

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners create skits based on pairs of words. In this Twelfth Night lesson, students create a cluster map in which they brainstorm a dialogue/scene based on their word pair. Learners perform and record their scenes and discuss...
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Thrusting Greatness Upon Television 3

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create a model video using Orsino's speech from Twelfth Night. In this literature and film making lesson, students watch a video clip of Osino's speech and overdub it using Audacity or iMovie. 
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Thrusting Greatness Upon the Television 2

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create mini-scenes using two random lines from Orsino's speech.  In this Twelfth Night lesson, students are given random lines from Orsino's speech and create a skit using their given lines at the beginning and the end...
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Printing Practice: There Is a Television In the Room

For Students K - 3rd
In this printing practice worksheet, students trace the 8 sentences listed in the sheet. Students then practice printing each of the sentences independently on the lines provided.  
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Camera Shots

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Understanding how visual codes such as long-shots, close-ups, and camera angles affect meaning helps prepare young filmmakers to plan their own productions. The concepts embedded could also be used to analyze photographs and paintings.
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Putting the Sitcom into Perspective

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify and compare similar characters and situations in stories and dramas from and about various cultures, illustrate with classroom dramatizations, and discuss how theater reflects life.
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Radio News

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Part of a larger unit from the Media Awareness Network on media literacy, this particular lesson plan focuses on the medium of news radio. Small groups participate in discussions on their radio listening habits as well as the...
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A Letter from Miami: A Telenovela

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students create their own telenovelas. In this telenovela activity, students use the graphic organizer to work in groups and create a telenovela based on the mysterious letter.
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William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: Fate versus Free Will

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders explore Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. After reading specific scenes, they brainstorm and discuss free will. Students observe a clip from the Dr. Phil television show entitled, "Afraid to Age" and make connections from the...
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Creating and Using a Checklist of Performance Techniques to Critique and Find the "Message" in Mass Media Performances

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners analyze and critique theater events by evaluating and constructing meanings from improvised and scripted scenes and from theater, film, television, and electronic media productions.
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Allusions to Shakespeare in Popular Culture

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Send your high schoolers on a scavenger hunt through popular culture (music, television, video games, movies) to find allusions to Shakespeare. They must each provide three to share with the class, and the one they present cannot have...
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Write Acrostic Poetry

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore acrostic poetry and use names of their favorite personalities from television, music, or sports. They write descriptions for each letter of the person's name.
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Learning Landscapes

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders analyze a landscape depicting Yosemite during the time of the Wild West. They compare their perceptions of the West from film and television to this representation. They observe the use of scale and color to depict size and...
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Survey of Favorites

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Upper grade and middle schoolers discuss their favorite TV programs, music, books, etc. Following a lesson plan on measures of central tendency, learners discuss random sampling. They conduct a survey and use charts and frequency tables...
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Background for The Outsiders: the 1960s

For Teachers 8th
As background for a reading of S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, groups rotate through four stations (video, music, website, information) to gather information on the 1960s. In addition, they interview family members about the 1960s and...
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Similar and Different

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders observe a pair of students standing in front of the class and compare and contrast them using a Venn Diagram using these guidelines: eye color, hair color, older/younger, tallest/shortest, gender, favorite food, favorite...

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