Families Illustrated Using film and television to teach about family life and human development

Welcome! Feature film and television programs can be engaging and popular tools for teaching about families and family life. Those who teach with film and television find exciting ways to get students talking, think critically and apply concepts. This site offers a variety of resources to help you get started. While the site is under development, please browse through the materials offered in our workshop on teaching with film and television at the CYFAR conference. Tell us more! Please share your teaching ideas and suggestions of great films and television programs to teach. Email your ideas to familiesillustrated@hotmail.com AND Contribute to the Teaching with Film and Television Database, just click here

CYFAR workshop materials The materials listed below were offered at the “Teaching Family Life and Youth Development” workshop at the CYFAR (Children, Youth and Families at Risk) conference in Atlanta, May 19, 2006. Workshop outline “Parenthood” summary and discussion questions worksheet for creating questions for awareness, analysis and application sample TV analysis activity summary of “Mean Girls” activity to teach relational aggression observation guide for “Mean Girls” list of suggested films and television programs by concept web resources on teaching with film and television suggested readings on teaching with film and television WORKSHOP EVALUATION (if you attended the workshop, please complete the evaluation and email it to me at skwalker@umd.edu

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Susan Walker

University of Maryland, College Park

Maryland Cooperative Extension

skwalker@umd.edu

Last update May 22, 2006