1. Kyann-lee fraser
9G1
Mr barlow
Lesson 1
Title: What is Media Studies?
Key Words
 Media Studies
 Media areas
L/O’s:
By the end of the lesson:
All Must – research, understand key media concepts (main tasks)
Most will – analyse key concepts (extension 1)
Some will- evaluate key concepts (extension 2)
Main Task 1 - Answer the following questions
1. What is media studies? Write a short definition.
A way of communicating with a large amount of people
using technology.
2. Write down between three and five different ‘media areas’.
Newspapers magazines television photography radios internet
mobile phones
3. Write down the four expectations for Media Studies lessons
Monitors off when told to. No talking when the teacher is explaining
work. All Harris manners should be followed at all times

2. Main Task 2
Research the history of the following media areas and record 3 key
facts in the boxes below (e.g. date invented or first used, key
people/organizations, important advances). The first one has been
done for you…
TV
1. First British TV broadcast: 1932
2. First broadcasts made by the
British Broadcasting Corporation
(BBC)
3. Early Television Broadcasting
technology was developed by
scottish engineer, John Logie Baird
Radio
1. First radio broadcast on January 13, 1910,
2. the first public radio broadcast was an
experimental transmission of a live
metropolitan performance of several
famous opera singers
3.
Key Media Areas
Internet
1. The internet was developed in
the 1950s
2. The Internet was designed to provide a
communications network that would
work even if some of the major sites
were down.
Newspaper

3. Extension Tasks
1 – Choose one ‘media area’ and make a list of three ways in
which it might be developed or used differently in the future
3 possible developments:
2 – Which media area do you think is the most important in today’s
world? Write one paragraph explaining what makes it more
important than other key media areas.
Plenary: Self-evaluation
Progress Bar:
- Circle your effort level for today’s lesson.
1 2 3 4 5
WWW: when I researched I
remembered information
very well without having to
copy and paste
EBI: I should have been
focused in the start of the
lesson because towards the
end my research didn’t go as
well as it could of gone
Progress Bar:
The effort level your teacher has marked you for today’s lesson.
1 2 3 4 5