Topic: Politics and the Media
Type: Curriculum materials
Years: 8-12
Key curriculum links:
Time, Continuity and Change; Culture; Natural and Social
Systems; Investigation, Communication and Participation.
Linked to the National Museum's 2002 political cartooning competition and the exhibition, Cartoons 2002: Life, Love and Politics, this unit of work asks students to examine and analyse a number of political cartoons by learning how to 'read' cartoons.
The student activities included in this unit includes the following topics:
- what is a 'political cartoon'?
- identifying the 'target' of a cartoon
- analysing the style of a cartoon
- working out the message of a cartoon
- should there be a limit to what cartoonists can say?
- the emotional appeal of cartoons
- cartoons and democracy.
If you are unable to download the below resources, please contact the Education section at education@nma.gov.au.
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