Media and Your Body Image: What You Need to Know

Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Subject Area

Physical Education
Health Education

Grade(s)

9, 10, 11, 12

Overview

We spend more time than ever using media and everywhere we turn there are messages telling us how we should look that can make us feel less confident about our appearance. While we’re probably not going to use fewer media, we can protect our self-image and body confidence from media’s narrow-body ideals that reinforce thinness for women and muscularity for men. It’s all about asking the right questions. 

Health Education (2019) Grade(s): 10 - Health Education

HE19.HE.2.1

Analyze the influence of external factors on health beliefs and behaviors.

Physical Education (2019) Grade(s): 09-12 - Beginning Kinesiology - Level 2

PE19.BK2.4.1

Recognize and discuss how idealized body images and elite performance levels portrayed in various media differ from the norm.

CR Resource Type

Informational Material

Resource Provider

Other

License Type

Custom

Resource Provider other

National Eating Disorders
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