Resources include:
- 'The scary video', a story in the Citizenship Foundation's Introducing Citizenship materials which illustrates choices that young children can make about what they watch
- a selection of newspapers (tabloid and broadsheet) and a video of a children's news programme, all from the same date
- video clips from a TV soap opera
- useful websites, eg
- www.childrens-express.org (an online newspaper for young people, with articles and reports written by 8- to 18-year-olds)
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/ ('newsround', the BBC news service for children)
- www.bfi.org.uk (British Film Institute, includes an education section with news, events and information about teaching resources)
- www.mediaEd.org.uk (a media education website with information, online resources and a diary of events. Resources for key stages 1 and 2 include 'Comparing newspapers', a worksheet for comparing newspaper design and layout, and 'Practical video', a checklist for planning and shooting a video)
- www.asa.org.uk (Advertising Standards Authority, for information on advertising standards, including codes of practice)
NB: care should be taken when encouraging children to access websites
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