VH1 AIDS: A Pop Culture History Lesson 1

Explore concepts of audience, purpose and symbols in this lesson from Media Smarts that asks students to consider all the functions of music. Through a series of discussions and activities, your class will brainstorm possible functions...

A study of how public perception is both reflected and influenced by film and television, this instructional activity helps learners develop an awareness of audience as well as a critical view of media. Depictions of police in television...

Consumer technology has made it possible for filmmakers to create entire movies from the comfort of their home computer. Guide high school film buffs through the process of designing a documentary with an extensive unit published by...

Upper graders are tasked with developing a social consciousness as they analyze the impact of the news media. They view a presentation depicting various media events in order to understand threshold moments in history. There are three...

Students compare/contrast the media messages they see in two different communities in their city. They list the elements of art and the principles of design in the photographs they have taken in those two different communities. They...

Social issues of gender and media stereotypes, begins with a multi-sensory experience. Learners view the painting Backlash Blues and make critical comments based on what they see. They then read the Langston Hughes poem and listen to the...

Discuss life in the 1930s in relation to the Dust Bowl and Great Depression, then do a cross-media analysis. Here you'll find background information on film maker John Ford, writer John Steinbeck, and 1930s America. You can compare the...

One of the elements of music is "Texture." This site gives the definition, which basically is the relationship between melodic and harmonic.

Learn about the evolution of digital media from an industry that sought out teens to one in which teens seek out content to "like" in this video from FRONTLINE: Generation Like. As school-aged children spend more time in digital spaces,...

This is a weekly blog kept by a student to explain what was being studied in a course on applied media aesthetics, the focus of Herbert Zettl's book "Sight Sound Motion." The student discusses and summarizes Zettl's ideas from various...