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Health Unit Plan . Mass Media’s Effect on Body Image . Grade 6 – Health . USC 6.1 Analyze the factors that influence the development of personal standards and identity, and determine the impact on health decision making including mass media.
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Health Unit Plan Mass Media’s Effect on Body Image
Grade 6 – Health • USC 6.1 Analyze the factors that influence the development of personal standards and identity, and determine the impact on health decision making including mass media. • USC 6.5 Analyze the influences mass media on perceptions of and personal standards related to body image, and the resulting impact on the identities and the well-being of self, family, and community.
Angle • We will focus on the resources found and how we turned them into activities.
ALANA – PBS kids website advertisement • Talk about the site and how you made it into a lesson
Dove Self Esteem • Workshop guide for teachers of girls and boys aged 11 to 14 gives activities that can be converted to lessons. • http://www.dove.ca/en/docs/pdf/WkshpGuide4TeachersBooklet_11-14yrs.pdf
Questionnaire – T or F? Fact 1: • Over 70% of girls avoid certain activities because they feel bad about their looks. • 20% won’t give an opinion • 15% won’t go to the doctor • 25% won’t go to a social event, party or club • 16% won’t go to school
Questionnaire – T or F? Fact 2: • The above principle (fact 1) is not the same for boys. Boys don’t suffer from any image-related issues.
Questionnaire – T or F? Fact 3: • Anxiety about appearance can put life on a limitless pause button. Today there is more pressure than ever on young girls and boys to be physically perfect.
Questionnaire – T or F? Fact 4: • Young people’s No. 1 worry is body image, especially as they get older.
Questionnaire – T or F? Fact 5: • While only 30% of teenage girls are ‘overweight’, 20% think they ‘need to lose weight’.
Questionnaire – T or F? Fact 6: • Boys aged 10-11 desire a skinner body than their current shape while boys aged 12-13 desire a bigger body.
Questionnaire – T or F? Fact 7: • As early as school entry, girls already appear to live in a culture that transmits the thin ideal in a way that negatively influences the development of body image and self-esteem.
Questionnaire – T or F? Fact 8: • 84% of girls would rather be a men’s magazine model than a doctor, teacher or nurse.
Impacting Videos • We used YouTube videos in our framework as a way to create questions for deeper understanding.
Abercombie and Fitch Video • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdeBp8J0rqs
Dove Video • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zKfF40jeCA&feature=related
Reflection • What would we do differently? • If we could do the unit framework differently we would be more specific that body image is a male issue too. • It is easy to pretend that body image is only a girl issue because the resources are so abundant for how to help them.
Message • Body image is more than just a female issue and teacher should make more of an effort to address both sides.