Masks as a means of protection

This activity encourages learners to consider how international governments marketed the wearing of masks and Covid-safe behaviour through their public campaigns during the pandemic. Learners are prompted to consider the relationship between the images and the words in the posters in order to understand how politics, marketing, graphics and linguistics combine to motivate and change behaviours.

This is the fifth activity in a series of resources designed around masks. See the others below:

• Examining masks using slow looking
• Masks within performance
• Masks as a means of self expression
• Masks as a symbol of protest

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