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Lesson Plan
Media Smarts

Violence on Television

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Focus on a specific incident of violence on television in the case of the Canadian Broadcast System showing Silence of the Lambs on public television. Look at the broadcasting codes and a complaint that was filed against the Association....
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Other

Broadcasting Board of Governors

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Promoting reliable and balanced journalism, the Broadcasting Board of Governors provides a comprehensive history, goal-set and ongoing intentions for international public broadcasting. The BBG seeks to provide unbiased and uncensored...
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University of Oxford (UK)

Museum of the History of Science: Wireless World: Marconi and the Radio

For Students 9th - 10th
Take an historic tour through the world of radio from Marconi's first radio transmission to the beginning of television broadcasting. Read about how Marconi's invention of wireless telegraphy had an impact on those who survived the...
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NPR: National Public Radio

Npr: Walter Cronkite on Npr

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the latest of Walter Cronkite's oral essays for NPR, in which he comments on events in recent history such as the Vietnam War, the U-2 crisis, and so on.
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Siegmund Loewe

For Students 9th - 10th
Siegmund Loewe was a German engineer and businessman that developed vacuum tube forerunners of the modern integrated circuit. He pioneered both radio and television broadcasting, and the company he established with his brother, David...