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The Teaching Educators About Media Project
This site provides media education lesson plans for select topics in high school history and government. These lesson plans examine how media construct representations of important issues and events in social studies. The lesson plans contain:
- Several classroom activities and extensions
- An illustrated glossary of key terms and concepts
- Media analysis worksheets
- Additional background readings
- A list of relevant TEKS objectives
You can browse sample lesson plans by subject:
- 1. The Great Depression, the New Deal and the Media
- 2. African American History and Media
- 3. Media and Elections
- 4. Women's Suffrage and the Media
Or examine media worksheets and handouts that can be applied across subject areas:
- Analyzing Photography
- Analyzing Political Advertising
- Anatomy of an Advertising Campaign
- APPARTS Adapted for Media Education
- Illustrated glossary
- Media Price List
- Sample shot log
- Shot log template
- Sample storyboard
- Storyboard template
TEAM (Teaching Educators About Media) materials aim to build a number of media education skills, including:
- Evaluating the evidentiary value of media sources
- Identifying bias in written and visual media
- Understanding the relationship between media and society
- Understanding the relationship between media and historical periods
- Interpreting of primary and secondary sources of news and information
- Recognizing stereotypes of U.S. subcultures
- Creating presentations of historical and political information in mediated forms
The Teaching Educators About Media (TEAM) Project, housed in UT's Radio-TV-Film Department, designed these lesson plans. Project Director: Laura Stein, Ph.D.
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