introduction

**Title: Media and Me**

 * Introduction**

This curriculum explores these big ideas:
 * What overarching understandings are desired for this curriculum?**


 * It's important to be a smart consumer of media.
 * Some artists borrow ideas and techniques from popular media.
 * Some artists comment on the influence of popular media in our lives.
 * Media can be used to raise awareness about public issues.
 * The media can influence the way we think
 * Media has embedded values and points of view.
 * There are many forms of media.

This curriculum explores these essential questions:
 * What are the essential questions for this unit?**
 * What is //the media//?
 * How can media be used to influence people's thinking and behavior?
 *  How have artists been influenced by //the media//?
 *  How does //the media// influence popular culture?
 * How do you interact and become a part of //the media//?
 * How is media used by artists?

As a result of completing the projects and activities in this curriculum, students will be able to: describe how different artists use media in their work. create a work of art utilizing different techniques used in the media to influence our thinking and behavior. discuss identify different forms of media and how media has changed over time. describe personal involvement in and with the media and daily life. identify ways in which the media influences popular culture, artists, and individual thinking.
 * What will students understand or be able to do as a result of this unit?**

7. Identify correlations and variances between media and art. 3. think for themselves about media and its implications 8. Prepare themselves for future interactions with media and how they will choose to interact with it. 9. Establish a better understanding of the world in which they live based upon the knowledge that media has affected the majority of human beings in one way or another. 10. Understand the different types of contemporary widespread media.


 * What Florida Sunshine Standards pertain to this unit?**


 * What key concepts will focus this unit?**

See Projects page.
 * How will students show the desired understandings?**