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Mahopac 444
LESSON 25 Grades 7-8 ()
Objective
Learner Outcome
Comprehensive Health
Education TopÏIC(s)
Values Integration
There are skills to practice which lead to a healthful lifestyle.
Recognize the influences of media messages.
V Family Life Education
XI Healthful Lifestyles
Reasoning: Recognizing the impact of direct and subtle media messages.
Respect for Self: Awareness and concern for one's sexuality as an
ingredient of personal dignity.
Respect for Others: Awareness and concern for the sexuality of others
as an ingredient of their personal dignity.
Motivating Activity Students will bring in advertisements and identify commercials with ('_ -,
which they are familiar. )
Identification
With teacher, students will identify some media messages about sex,
such as:
(If
casual sex is OK
fli social relationships always seem to have a sexual component
fli many things are described in sexual terms to make them attractive:
-cars are "racy:'''seductive''
-"Nothinggets between me and my jeans"
Effective Communication Students will discuss, in small groups, which advertisements rely
on words to communicate their sexual message and which rely on
pictures.
Decision Making Students will decide which ads rely on words and which on pictures,
and they will create two bulletin boards which reflect these
advertising methods.
Students will decide how these messages influence them.
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