Lesson Plan
Grades 6-8
Grades 9-10
Grades 11-12

Addressing Trauma Using Affective and Cognitive Skills Lesson Details

Lesson Details

OBJECTIVES

In this lesson, students will:

  • Use the art forms of their choice to express their feelings about events and write factual accounts of the same events in order to learn the definitions of "affective" and "cognitive"
  • Consider how art helps people heal from trauma

GRADE LEVELS: 9-12

SUBJECT AREAS

Arts/Music, English/Language Arts, Media Literacy, Psychology, Sociology

MATERIALS

  • Film clips and equipment to project them

ESTIMATED TIME NEEDED
2 class periods with homework in between

Sources

About the author:

Faith Rogow

Faith Rogow, Ph.D., is the co-author of The Teacher's Guide to Media Literacy: Critical Thinking in a Multimedia World (Corwin, 2012) and past president of the National Association for Media Literacy Education. She has written discussion guides and lesson plans for more than 250 independent films.

Faith Rogow