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Kevin Driscoll

(Los Angeles - United States)

I taught Computer Science and Mathematics from 2004-2007 at Prospect Hill Academy Charter School in Cambridge, MA. Since then, I completed a Master's degree in Comparative Media Studies at MIT and am now a PhD candidate in Communication at University of ...

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Highlights

	Social Health: Healthy Relationships
This resource is an entire curriculum about healthy relationships, which are based on respect. It draws on the National Health Standards and is a well laid out course for middle school students. This 45 page document includes well designed tasks for students to understand, question and analyze relationships. Questionnaires, quizzes, motivational stories, analyses, rubrics and recipes for healthy relationships are offered. Self-esteem, trust, respect, communication, sharing, negotiation and compromise, and safety are central themes of this important curriculum.

	Digital Manipulation of Body Types
This resource contains some excellent links highlighting image manipulation and the distortion of beauty in the media. The first link, a video by Dove, shows the process by which a very plain looking woman is transformed into a billboard beauty. The second link highlights the retouching accomplishments of a studio (click "portfolio" from the main site). Another link from Dartmouth University gives a history of manipulated photographs. All of the above will foster important discussion among adolescents.

	Personal Image Lessons
Geared more for younger students, this unit on Personal Image integrates class discussions, role play, journal writing and reading stories whose main character faces obstacles about body image. Road of Life offers many other free lessons to encourage healthy living in today's world.

	How To Use Advanced Search
This 3-minute video provides information on using the Advanced Search. You can view all of our videos in the Video Tutorials folder in Curriki's Help Collection.