A 48-slide revision package written to support the AQA GCSE (9-1) Media Studies course 2023 specification. This can be projected with the class, completed by the pupils in using computers or photocopied onto A4/A5 and used as a homework project.
The package deals with the key media theories outlined by AQA and links to the CSPs. It also covers key media language and terms linked to various CSPs with pupil activity involved. The final slides deal with key terms that may be assessed for 2 mark responses and then more detailed exemplar questions for 6, 8 and 12 mark questions.
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A revision checklist for the 9-1 Edexcel GCSE Business Studies course including all aspects of Theme 1 [Investigating small business] and Theme 2 [Building a business]. Designed for pupil use, the checklist provides a framework to support pupil revision and self-assessment. Also includes key formula that must be independently memorised and guidance on responses to key command words [Calculate, Outline, Explain, Analyse, Discuss, Justify and Evaluate]. A key resource to support Year 10 and Year 11 revision and progress tracking.
An assembly to reflect on the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia. This is a day that is celebrated every year on May 17th. This day is all about standing up for the rights of people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and others who may not conform to traditional gender and sexual orientation norms.
This highly dynamic and editable 26-slide Powerpoint presentation creatively presents information on this event and can be showcased to any age group and includes specific pages for primary or secondary students. It includes images, dynamic transitions, informative text, video and links for extension work in form time – including extra video and classroom activities.
Slide 1: Title Slide #IDAHOTB
Slide 2: What is the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia?
Slide 3: Video about the day
Slide 4: LGBTQIA+ around the world
Slide 5: LGBTQIA+ role models – can you name them?
Slide 6-11 How to be an LGBTQIA+ ally – top tips and includes video
Slide 12: What can schools and students do to support LGBTQIA+?
Slide 13: Closing thoughts about LGBTQIA+
Slide 14: Follow Up Form Time activities
Slide 15-16: The Discrimination Game
Slide 17: Longer video: Growing Up Gay
Slide 18-20: Design a LGBTQIA+ poem activity
Slides 21-26: LGBTQIA+ form-time quiz – with answers
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A very detailed Powerpoint [64 detailed slides!] has been used as comprehensive resource with Year 11s and Year 11 Parent Information Evenings. Includes the importance of revision, how to revise, examination technique, command words and examination preparation.
An assembly to support work during Healthy Eating Week in June. This highly dynamic presentation has an assembly plus a range of ideas and resources for follow-up form time activities.
This beautifully-designed and editable 29-slide Powerpoint presentation creatively presents information on this event and can be showcased to any age group and includes specific pages for primary or secondary students. It includes images, dynamic transitions, informative text, video and links for extension work in form time – including extra video and classroom activities.
Slide 1-2: What is healthy eating week? Includes video.
Slide 3: Assembly icebreaker
Slide 4: What problem does unhealthy eating cause?
Slide 5: What are the benefits of healthy eating?
Slide 6: What are the 5 themes of this year’s Healthy Eating Week?
Slide 7: Why should you eat more fibre? Includes video.
Slide 8: Why should you eat 5 a day? Includes video.
Slide 9: Why should you vary your protein?
Slide 10: Why should you stay hydrated? Includes video.
Slide 11: Why should you reduce food waste?#
Slide 12: Closing Thoughts
Slide 13: Follow-up form time activities title screen
Slide 14: Form time activities: Colouring activity
Slide 15-16: Form time activities: More in-depth video support
Slide 17: Form time activities: Wordsearch activity
Slide 18: Form time activities: Wordsearch solution
Slide 19: Form time activities: Write a poem activity
Slides 20-25: Form time activities: Healthy Eating quiz – with answers
Slides 26-29: Other form time ideas to support Healthy Eating strategies.
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Resources for the Close Study Product for the AQA GCSE Media Studies course (first teaching September 2021). Designed for AQA, and anyone examining the Magazine unit on Tatler. The 34 slide, 7 lesson resource includes all resources and seven lesson’s work (with possible expansion) and pupil questions/activities. Download also includes a knowledge checklist for the CSPs.
Lesson 1: Introduction to Tatler and the nature of its target audience.
Lesson 2 and 3: Completing a detailed semiotic analysis of the Tatler front cover including verbal, non-verbal and technical codes. Also, the codes and conventions of magazine design.
Lesson 4: Modelled semiotic analysis of an unseen magazine media product.
Lesson 5: An analysis of the narrative structures using media theories including Propp, Todorov and Barthes.
Lesson 6: How groups, people and events are represented in Tatler and why.
Lesson 7: Comparing Tatler to Heat. Practice examination questions.
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Resources for the Close Study Product for the AQA GCSE Media Studies course (first teaching September 2021). Designed for AQA, and anyone examining the Online, Social and Participatory unit on Marcus Rashford. The 55 slide 10 lesson resource includes all resources and ten lesson’s work (with possible expansion) and pupil questions/activities. Download also includes a knowledge checklist for the CSP.
Lesson 1: Who is Marcus Rasford?
Lesson 2: Why is Marcus Rashford a CSP? How has Marcus Rashford redefined celebrity through his online presence?
Lesson 3: Who is the audience for Marcus Rashford and why do they engage with his online presence?
Lesson 4: Analysing the codes and conventions of his social media channels.
Lesson 5: Analysing the official Marcus Rashford website.
Lesson 6: Audience positioning and narrative structures.
Lesson 7: Who selects the various representations of Marcus. The rise of social media managers and PR companies.
Lesson 8: The growth of social media companies and who owns them? Who regulates social media companies?
Lesson 9: How do social media companies make money? What businesses link with Marcus Rashford and why?
Lesson 10: Marcus Rashford, the political powerbase and public policy.
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A two lesson unit for study skills that looks at pupils identifying different learning styles and examining a range of fun and practical strategies to improve memory (using a range of video). The pack includes:
Learning Style questionnaire and analysis.
Video clips examining how the brain works and how to support memory development.
A range of practical memory games and activities.
Resources for the Close Study Product for the reformed AQA GCSE Media Studies course. Designed for AQA, also applies to Eduqas and anyone discussing the social realism film ‘I, Daniel Blake’. The resources study the Media Industries around the film and how it relates to the global film industry; it compares key points to the other Film CSP, Dr. Strange. The Powerpoint includes all resources and three lessons work (with possible expansion).
Lesson 1: What is ‘I, Daniel Blake’? Who is Ken Loach? Which companies produced ‘I, Daniel Blake’? All linked to video and key statistics.
Lesson 2: What were the production costs for ‘I, Daniel Blake’ and why? How does this compare with major studio films such as Dr. Strange? How was the film marketed? What is guerilla marketing and why was this so important with ‘I, Daniel Blake’? How was the film released and why? Was ‘I, Daniel Blake’ a box office success and how did it compare with ‘Dr. Strange’?
Lesson 3: What film certificate is ‘I, Daniel Blake’ and why? What merchandise has been produced in response to ‘I, Daniel Blake’ and what is the #wearealldanielblake movement? What countries has ‘I, Daniel Blake’ distributed to? What is globalisation in the film industry and how does this impact on film production?
All of the above are linked through activities to ‘I, Daniel Blake’ and could extend into further lessons and discussions. As previous 5-star reviews for other CSPs published on TES have stated ‘these are great starting points’ for lesson delivery.
Powerpoint file contains all resources, along with a Personal Learning Checklist (PLC) for students to RAG-rate their knowledge, skills and understanding. As reviewers have stated for previous Media Studies CSPs:
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An assembly to promote Road Safety Week: Let’s Talk About Speed in November. This highly dynamic presentation has an assembly plus a range of ideas and resources for follow-up form time activities.
This beautifully-designed and editable 28-slide Powerpoint presentation creatively presents information on this event and can be showcased to any age group and includes specific pages for primary or secondary students. It includes images, dynamic transitions, informative text, video and links for extension work in form time – including extra video and classroom activities.
Slide 1: What is Road Safety Week?
Slide 2: Key Speed Facts in the UK.
Slide 3: Why is it getting worse?
Slide 4: No Need to Speed: 2023 video
Slide 5: Key Speed Messages: Making Safer Streets
Slide 6: Do you know the braking distances. Includes interactive tool/
Slide 7-8: What can you do to raise awareness?
Slide 9-10: Closing Thoughts
Slide 11: Follow-up form time activities title screen
Slide 12: Form time activities: Colouring activity
Slide 13: Form time activities: Human Rights Wordsearch
Slide 14: Form time activities: Look at crash information and crash hotspots near you
Slide 15: Form time activities: Victims’ Voices: short videos
Slide 16: Form time activities: The new highway code rules for pedestrians video
Slide 17: Form time activities: Write a poem activity
Slides 18-25: Form time activities: Road Safety quiz – with answers
Slides 26-28: Other form time ideas to support Road Safety Day in schools
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An assembly to celebrate the birthday of William Shakespeare in April. This highly dynamic presentation has an assembly plus a range of ideas and resources for follow-up form time activities.
This beautifully-designed and editable 22-slide Powerpoint presentation creatively presents information on this event and can be showcased to any age group and includes specific pages for primary or secondary students. It includes images, dynamic transitions, informative text, video and links for extension work in form time – including extra video and classroom activities.
Slide 1: Who was William Shakespeare?
Slide 2: Why does William Shakespeare matter?
Slide 3-7: How does Shakespeare influence our modern culture? Includes video
Slide 8: Final thought
Slide 9: Follow Up Form Time activities
Slide 10: Shakespeare insult generator
Slide 11: Writing sonnet activity – with Marcus Rashford example
Slide 12: Acting a short Shakespeare scene
Slide 13: Shakespeare word search
Slide 14: Shakespeare colouring activity
Slide 15: Shakespeare translator activity
Slide 16: Shakespeare scavenger hunt
Slides 17-22: William Shakespeare form-time quiz – with answers
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Resources for the Close Study Product for the AQA GCSE Media Studies course (first teaching September 2021). Designed for AQA, and anyone examining the Magazine unit on Heat. The 48 slide, 7 lesson resource includes all resources and seven lesson’s work (with possible expansion) and pupil questions/activities. Download also includes a knowledge checklist for the CSPs.
Lesson 1: Introduction to Heat and the nature of its target audience. Also, introduction to the celebrities on the cover and the context of the stories.
Lesson 2 and 3: Completing a detailed semiotic analysis of the Heat front cover including verbal, non-verbal and technical codes.
Lesson 4: The values and beliefs of Heat magazine.
Lesson 5: An analysis of the narrative structures using media theories including Propp, Todorov Levi-Strauss and Barthes.
Lesson 6: How groups, people and events are represented in Heat and why.
Lesson 7: Comparing Heat to Tatler. Practice examination questions.
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Resources for the Close Study Product for the reformed AQA GCSE Media Studies course. Designed for AQA, also applies to Eduqas and anyone discussing the impact of celebrity and monetised apps and their expansion into the media/celebrity landscape. The resources relate to the Kim Kardashian Hollywood app/game, and study the Media Representation, Audiences, Industries and Language around the Kardashian brand, celebrity culture, feminism in gaming, monetisation of apps and game industry regulation. The Powerpoint includes all resources and seven lessons work (with possible expansion).
Lesson 1: Introduction to the game and the Kardashian brand.
Lesson 2: How is the game structured, narrative techniques used.
Lesson 3: Representation of celebrity, uses and gratification theory and marketing of the game.
Lesson 4: Media convergence, gender roles and influence on target audience, gender in the gaming industry.
Lesson 5: Game industry regulation, the canging nature of the gaming industry and monetisation of 'free' apps.
All of the above are linked through activities to Kim Kardashian Hollywood and could extend into further lessons and discussions. As previous 5-star reviews for other CSPs published on TES have stated 'these are great starting points' for lesson delivery.
Powerpoint file contains all resources, along with a Personal Learning Checklist (PLC) for students to RAG-rate their knowledge, skills and understanding.
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An assembly to celebrate World Water Day in March 2024. This highly dynamic presentation has an assembly plus a range of ideas and resources for follow-up form time activities.
This beautifully-designed and editable 22-slide PowerPoint presentation creatively presents information on this event and can be showcased to any age group and includes specific pages for primary or secondary students. It includes images, dynamic transitions, animated gifs, informative text, video and links for extension work in form time – including extra video and classroom activities.
Slides 1: What is UN World Water Day?
Slide 2-4: UN World Water Day – key information including video
Slide 5-6: UN World Water Day - Key World Water facts
Slide 7-8: UN World Water Day – What can you do?
Slide 9: Take a Water Pledge
Slide 10: Final thought
Slide 11: Form time activities title page
Slide 12-13: Form time activities: Colouring activity
Slides 14: Form time activities: Write to your MP
Slide 15: Form time activities: Do a quiz
Slide 16: Form time activities: Read a book
Slide 17: Form time activities: Complete a wordsearch
Slide 18: Form time activities: Write a poem
Slide 19: Form time activities for KS1 and KS2
Slide 20: Form time activities: Access a water resource pack 1
Slide 21: Form time activities: Access a water resource pack 2
Slide 22: Form time activities: Water quotes for classroom discussion
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An assembly to commemorate Remembrance Day in November. This highly dynamic presentation has an assembly plus a range of ideas and resources for follow-up form time activities.
This beautifully-designed and editable 23-slide PowerPoint presentation creatively presents information on this event and can be showcased to any age group and includes specific pages for primary or secondary students. It includes images, dynamic transitions, animated gifs, informative text, video and links for extension work in form time – including extra video and classroom activities.
Slides 1-2: Why do we remember things?
Slide 3: The 11th
Slide 4: What is Remembrance Day Includes video.
Slide 5: What are we remembering?
Slide 6: Somme video.
Slide 7: They shall not grow old poem
Slide 8: Why wear a poppy?
Slide 9: Final thought
Slide 10: Form time activities title page
Slide 11: Form time activities: Colouring activity
Slide 12: Form time activities: Wordsearch activity
Slide 13: Watch a video about poppy wearing
Slide 14: Form time activities: Write a remembrance poem
Slides 15-20: Form time activities: Remembrance quiz – with answers
Slides 21-23: Other form time ideas
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Resources for the Close Study Product for the reformed AQA GCSE Media Studies course. Designed for AQA, also applies to Eduqas and anyone discussing the mobile game industry and feminine stereotypes in gaming. The resources relate to the Lara Croft Go app/game, and study the Media Representation, Audiences, Industries and Language around theTomb Raider / Lara Croft brand, feminism and sexualisation in gaming, the positive and negative aspects of gaming and game industry regulation. The Powerpoint includes all resources and six/seven lessons work (with possible expansion).
Lesson 1: Introduction to the game and the Lara Croft brand, female stereotypes and women in gaming, evolution of the Lara Croft franchise,
Lesson 2: How is the game structured, narrative techniques used.
Lesson 3: Game analysis, NICS, codes and conventions.
Lesson 4: Visual and aural semiotic codes, intertextuality.
Lesson 5: Audience uses and pleasures, advertising and marketing, positive and negative aspects of gaming on audiences.
Lesson 5: The Tomb Raider franchise, critical and commercial reception, the multi-platform game market, game regulation, comparing Lara Croft, Kim Kardashian and Zoella.
All of the above are linked through activities to Lara Croft Go and could extend into further lessons and discussions. As previous 5-star reviews for other CSPs published on TES have stated ‘these are great starting points’ for lesson delivery.
Powerpoint file contains all resources, along with a Personal Learning Checklist (PLC) for students to RAG-rate their knowledge, skills and understanding. As reviewers have stated for previous Media Studies CSPs:
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Resources for the Close Study Product for the reformed AQA GCSE Media Studies course. Designed for AQA, and anyone examining the Music Video ‘I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor’ The 16 slide 5 lesson resource and PLC study the Media Audience and Industries around the video and how it relates to the changing nature of the music industry; it also compares key points to the other Music Video CSP, ‘One Direction, History’ . The Powerpoint includes all resources and five lessons work (with possible expansion).
Lesson 1: Who were the Arctic Monkeys and why was their growth a key turning point in the music industry? Compare the Arctic Monkeys with a classic rock band, such as The Beatles.
Lesson 2: Analysis of the video for ‘I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor’. How do the band present their image through the video and why? Why do music videos exist?
Lesson 3: What are the demographics and psychographics of the Arctic Monkeys audience (Young and Rubicam)? Why do people watch the Arctic Monkeys (Uses and Gratification)?
Lesson 4: Why was this video a turning point in the music industry? How did P2P file sharing change the music industry? How has changing technology enabled self-production in music and what does this mean for the music industry?
Lesson 5: How are music videos regulated and why? Comparing Arctic Monkeys ‘I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor’ and One Direction ‘History’.
All of the above are linked through activities to ‘I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor’ and could extend into further lessons and discussions. As previous 5-star reviews for other CSPs published on TES have stated ‘these are great starting points’ for lesson delivery.
Powerpoint file contains all resources, along with a Personal Learning Checklist (PLC) for students to RAG-rate their knowledge, skills and understanding. As reviewers have stated for previous Media Studies CSPs:
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An assembly for Earth Day. Earth Day is a global event that takes place annually to raise awareness about climate change and encourage people to take action. Earth Day is an annual event on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection. First held on April 22, 1970, it now includes a wide range of events coordinated globally by Earthday.org including 1 billion people in more than 193 countries. The official theme for 2024 is "Planet vs. Plastics.
This highly dynamic 23-slide Powerpoint presentation creatively presents information on this event and can be showcased to any age group, but it probably most appropriate for secondary level. It includes images, dynamic transitions, informative text, video and links for extension work in form time – including quizzes, carbon footprint calculators and more.
Slides 1-3: What is Earth Day? Includes embedded video
Slides 4-5: What is the 2024 theme? Includes embedded video
Slides 6-12: What can YOU do to support Earth Day this year?
Slides 13-21: Why can WE do as schools to support Earth Day and our planet?
Slide 22-23: Closing video – The Earth Day anthem
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An assembly to celebrate International Day of Families in May. This highly dynamic presentation has an assembly plus a range of ideas and resources for follow-up form time activities.
This beautifully-designed and editable 29-slide PowerPoint presentation creatively presents information on this event and can be showcased to any age group and includes specific pages for primary or secondary students. It includes images, dynamic transitions, informative text, video and links for extension work in form time – including extra video and classroom activities.
Slide 1: What is International Day of Families? Includes video.
Slide 2: What is a family?
Slide 3: Families around the world
Slide 4: Why population and demographic change is such an important issue. Includes video.
Slide 5: What is demographic change?
Slide 6: Why has the UN chosen demographic change this year (2023)? Slide 7: What are the advantages of fair-trade shopping for us all?
Slide 7: What are the demographic changes in the UK?
Slides 8-9: How have family structures changed over the last 50 years?
Slide 10-11: How is your school community is just like a family
Slide 12: Final thought
Slide 13: Form time activities title screen
Slide 14: Form time activities: guidance
Slides 15-17: Form time activities: Colouring activity
Slides 18-19: Form time activities: Wordsearch activity
Slide 20: Form time activities: Build a Family Tree activity
Slides 21: Form time activities: Write a family poem
Slides 22-27: Form time activities: Family quiz – with answers
Slides 28-29: Other form time ideas
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An assembly that looks at what ‘banter’ is and how it has been in the news. It looks at strategies to look out for it and what to do if it becomes more than that and becomes bullying. Includes video looking at key strategies.