Popular culture can pack a powerful punch when it comes to creating awareness around an issue! Teams collaborate to create a pop-culture-themed message during a digital citizenship instructional activity. Part of a vast library of resources, the activity focuses on reaching others using familiar characters and songs.

Concepts

popular culture, advocacy, activism, social activism, social issues

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Additional Tags

classroom support

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Instructional Ideas

• Harness the class's creative energy by asking each group to create a paper or digital drawing that represents their campaigns
• Display student work throughout the school to get others involved in raising awareness of social issues
  

Classroom Considerations

• Place scholars in groups of three based upon common interests
  

Pros

• The activity lets learners bring their personal interests to class and use them in a creative way
• Great organization makes the lesson easy to deliver and assess
  

Cons

• None