A detailed, engaging and well-differentiated lesson to encourage critical thinking (lasting 1-2 hours), focused on the growth of Fake News and ‘alternative facts’. These resources teach students how we must always use critical thinking skills when studying media material.
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1hr PP with differentiated tasks and clip - a media unit introduction
Complete 1 hour, well differentiated lesson
Suitable for low ability KS4 or KS3
Different level tasks for MA,LA or Core
Designed to fit Ofsted criteria for’ Good’ or above
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A model response produced by an experienced Eduqas A Level Examiner. This is a four part question totalling 25 marks for Industries, focusing on ‘Black Panther’.
a) = 2 marks
b) = 10 marks
c) = 1 mark
d) = 12 marks
This fully editable worksheet is designed to match the specification and is perfect for homework, cover lessons, or independent study. Each task is carefully structured to help students consolidate key content, deepen understanding, and support effective revision. Ideal for home learning, retrieval practice, flipped learning, or in-class support. Ai was used to help create these accessible and engaging, this no-prep resource helps boost progress while saving teacher time.
Media AQA A-Level CSPs Revision Notes 2025, including latest CSPs:
Score and Sephora
Daily Mail and The Guardian
Old Town Road and Ghost Town
Blinded By the Light
Newsbeat and War of the Worlds
No Offence and The Killing
Taylor Swift and The Voice
Horizon Forbidden West and Sims Freeplay
GQ Magazine and The Gentlewoman
Scheme of learning for the Online Media unit of study as part of the Eduqas A Level Media Studies Specification. Each lesson is broken down by the key areas of assessment; media language, audience, representation and industry. Each area also covers key theoretical approaches.
Content Warning: some of the vidoes and other content taken from KSI’s YouTube and social media channels used in these lessons may be considered racist, homophobic, transphobic, misogynistic, etc. and will need to be shown at your discretion.
A comprehensive 37 slide presentation on the brand new AQA CSP product 'BlackPink The Game (BPTG) added to the course in 2024.
This presentation looks exclusively at the game through the theoritical framework of Media REPRESENTATIONS.
This resource also contains multiple video files of gameplay.
I will be uploading further presentations for the other study areas.
Eduqas GCSE Media Studies, Component 2, Stormzy ‘Superheroes’
A 44 page pupil booklet, to accompany a 180 slide PowerPoint.
PDF and adaptable Word document of the pupil booklet included, to maintain formatting.
Information content largely based on the Eduqas factsheet, with additional research articles and video embedded.
PowerPoint transitions used to enhance whiteboard teaching.
Whole class plenary and analytical activities included in the pupil booklet, to work alongside the PowerPoint sections.
Covers:
Key facts
Contexts
Industry
Audience
Media Language
Representation
Website and Social Media
Hopefully it will safe someone LOADS of time!
I have put together a selection of all things related to the Bond topics in media studies Eduqas. It contains some media language topics but mainly focuses on the Industries side of the course.
It focuses on
Component 1 A
Component 1B
A few tasks and model responses to keep the students engaged.
A full bundle of lessons covering the complete range of theory, concepts and set products required for teaching A-Level Media Studies. This collection was originally created for OCR Media Studies and was fully aligned to the 2024 specification at the time of creation. All materials are fully adaptable and can be used to support any exam board offering Media Studies at A-Level or GCSE.
This bundle includes:
• Complete Media Theory content taught across all core areas required at A-Level
• Lessons covering key industries and media forms including Film, Television, Radio, Videogames, Print Advertising, Magazines, Newspapers and Online Media
• Detailed lessons and tasks for a wide range of close study products, including:
– The Jungle Book
– Stranger Things
– Forbrydelsen
– Minecraft
– The Guardian
– Daily Mail
– The Big Issue
– Old Spice print advert
– Lucozade print advert
– Shelter print advert
– New specification print adverts: Dove, River Island, Shelter
– The Radio 1 Breakfast Show
• A student NEA guide with clear, structured support for completing the print and music video options
This resource is ideal for departments seeking a comprehensive, adaptable set of lessons to teach all major areas of Media Studies at A-Level, with transferable content suitable for a range of specifications.
Polite note:
Please ensure you check your current exam board specification before downloading. If you experience any download issues, kindly report them directly to TES so they can resolve them before a review is left.
Eduqas GCSE Media Studies Industry revision pack — flashcards, terminology guide, past paper questions & answers for Component 1 & 2 Section B. Summer 2026.
This comprehensive revision bundle covers everything students need for the Industry questions in Eduqas GCSE Media Studies — Component 1 Section B (Q3) and Component 2 Section B (Q4) — for the Summer 2026 exam series.
What’s included (6 PDF files):
Student Tips & Advice
A step-by-step exam guide covering the 8 Tier 1 priority terms, the PEEL paragraph technique, the three most common exam mistakes (convergence vs synergy, conglomerate vs horizontal integration, industry vs audience questions), and quick-recall facts for every set product.
Key Industry Terminology Guide (8 pages)
A full reference table covering every industry term students need, from Tier 1 essentials (convergence, synergy, conglomerate, vertical integration, horizontal integration, PSB, regulation, revenue streams) through to Tier 2 and Tier 3 supporting terms. Every term includes a student-friendly definition, set product examples and guidance on how to use it in an exam answer.
Industry Flashcards — A4 Booklet (36 pages)
A complete set of double-sided flashcards for every key term, including definition cards, example cards, PEEL model answer guidance, comparison cards (convergence vs synergy; vertical vs horizontal integration; PSB vs commercial; industry vs audience questions), and “Don’t confuse with” warnings. Designed to be printed double-sided and used for self-testing.
Industry Past Paper Question Bank
Every industry-related past paper question from Component 1 Q3 and Component 2 Q4 (SAMs through Summer 2025), grouped by mark allocation (1-mark, 2-mark, 4-mark, 5-mark, 6-mark, 10-mark and 12-mark questions). Ideal for timed practice and question-spotting.
Industry Past Paper Questions WITH Mark Scheme Answers
The complete question bank with full mark scheme answers, examiner guidance and Top Band notes drawn from official Eduqas Examiners’ Reports 2019–2025. Includes detailed mark scheme points for every question type and explicit advice on what earns top-band marks.
Teacher Tips & Advice
A teacher-facing guide covering the three most commonly confused term pairs (with examiner evidence), the industry vs audience question distinction, what examiners reward (drawn from reports 2019–2025), a recommended teaching sequence, and a note on the Lizzo optional set product.
Set products covered:
No Time to Die / 007 website
The Archers (BBC Radio 4)
Fortnite (Epic Games)
The Sun & The Guardian
Taylor Swift (The Man) — taylorswift.com
Stormzy (Superheroes) — stormzy.com
AQA A Level Media Studies NEA Briefs (2027 submission)
This resource summarises each brief and provides real-world media examples to help students understand the codes and conventions they need to replicate in their productions.
Perfect for introducing the coursework project and supporting early planning.
✔ Brief summaries students can easily understand
✔ Real-world media text examples
✔ Ideal for launch lessons and coursework guidance
✔ Saves teachers time interpreting the official briefs
A useful starting point for any teacher beginning the NEA **production unit.
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This is a full teaching and learning pack for the optional unit R097 for the new Creative iMedia specification. This pack includes:
16 lessons with slides and discussion based activities.
The first four lessons are linked to topic area 1 so each include a Workbook for students to complete (Teacher version with exemplars/answers provided)
Practice assignment brief which follows the OCR assignment strcture.
Exemplar material such as: pre-planning documents, created/repurposed assets (static images, animation, audio, video and interactive)
NEA Scrapbook that students can work through and keep all their work in one place.
Each section includes an assessment of each topic area based on the exemplar with comments on how to improve.
SOW with commentary included.
The uptake of web-based lecture technologies for recording and delivering live lectures has increased markedly in recent years. Students have responded positively, and for many their use has transformed learning – freeing them up from rigid timetables by providing choice in lecture attendance and supporting learning by extending the lecture experience and enabling them to revisit key concepts and ideas in their own time. Less transformational has been the impact on teaching.
An interactive PowerPoint (PP) with an index page containing 132 key terms from the new AQA Media Studies (8572). Words and meaning taken directly from the new AQA specification.
Each word/term on the index page can be clicked on. this will take your student to a slide within the glossary (PP) containing the official AQA meaning of the term. Each slide contains examples, explanations, pictures, audio or video content or links to helpful websites and explanations online.
This is an extremely thorough resource that is best used independently by students as a way of learning the subject specific terminology.
I have used this in lesson as a dictionary corner tool also, the idea being that you allow students to access the glossary if they are unsure of the meaning or during questioning times you appoint someone who checks the terms on behalf of the class.
it is a kineasthetic, audio/visual, dual coded resource.
Ways to use it are;
For revision
In lesson to discover the meaning of new terms as they are introduced
For homeworks
For posters/displays
It is a commonly accepted maxim of education that independent learning and directed study accommodate individual learning styles and allow students to acquire basic facts and principles. Such practices are increasingly desirable in the current educational climate as they allow teaching staff to use valuable contact time to address higher cognitive skills. However, when there is a requirement for such learning to be practice-based it is not always possible to provide students with the necessary resources for independent study.
**IMPORTANT: THIS VARIES FROM THE 2023-2024 COMP 1 GUIDE WHICH CAN BE FOUND HERE: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-12886069 AS IT INCLUDES ‘VOGUE’ (WHICH COMES ONTO THE EXAM IN 2025) INSTEAD OF ‘PRIDE’.
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This 126 page revision guide is designed for the EDUQAS GCSE Component 1 exam (2023-24). If you purchased my previous version of this guide, it has been completely overhauled with new content added and the document made more user friendly. More importantly, new texts which will be assessed in the 2024 exam season for the first time ‘No Time To Die’, ‘GQ’ (Raheem Sterling cover), have been added. This guide can be used for; independent revision purposes, as support alongside lessons (especially if delivering my purchased resources) or to set H/W tasks.
The guide includes:
-Colour coded to help students match terms with which part of RAIL/ Contexts it falls under.
-Top tips/ timings for the exam.
-Has a variety of Application Station tasks whereby students get the opportunity to apply what they have learned.
-Has a variety of exemplars with key terms/ contexts/ theories highlighted.
-An in-depth tariff bank on how to write every question in the exam from a 1 marker-25 marker, with whole or partial exemplars written by me.
The guide’s contents page looks as follows:
PAGES 3= USER GUIDE AND REVISION ADVICE
PAGE 4-5= EXAM BREAKDOWN
PAGES 6-7 = RAIL KEY TERMS BROKEN DOWN
PAGE 8= CONTEXTS
SECTION A FORM BREAKDOWN= PAGE 9
ADVERTISING AND MARKETING= ‘QUALITY STREET’ AND ‘THIS GIRL CAN’
PAGES 10-14= MEDIA LANGUAGE
PAGES 15-21= REPRESENTATION
FILM= ‘THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN’ AND ‘NTTD’
PAGES 22-30= MEDIA LANGUAGE
PAGES 31-37= REPRESENTATION
MAGAZINES= ‘GQ’ AND ‘VOGUE’
PAGES 38-43= MEDIA LANGUAGE
PAGES 44-48 = REPRESENTATION
NEWSPAPERS= ‘THE GUARDIAN’ AND ‘THE SUN’
PAGES 49-54= MEDIA LANGUAGE
PAGES 55-60= REPRESENTATION
SECTION B FORM BREAKDOWN= PAGE 61
FILM= ‘NTTD’
PAGES 62-74= INDUSTRY
VIDEO GAMES= ‘FORTNITE
PAGES 75-86= INDUSTRY
PAGES 87-97 = AUDIENCE
RADIO= ‘THE ARCHERS
PAGES 98-100 = INDUSTRY
PAGES 101-103= AUDIENCE
NEWSPAPERS= ‘THE SUN’
PAGES 104-112 = INDUSTRY
PAGES 113-120 = AUDIENCE
TARIFF BANK: WRITE THE PERFECT COMPONENT 1 EXAM FROM START TO FINISH WITH EXEMPLAR RESPONSES: PAGES 121-126
NOTE: I am following EDUQAS Teaching Model 1 in my teaching/ SOW and my school is only providing Media Studies at GCSEl, as a three-year Course. Moreover, some of the tasks in lesson and for H/W are dependent upon owning the EDUQAS GCSE Revision Guide.
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**2027 New Set Text: GCSE Media Studies Eduqas Component 1 Section B Desert Island Discs (BBC Radio 4)
Fully Resourced 6-Lesson Scheme of Work | 188 Slides | 16-Page Booklet | Exam Practice | Radio Industries & Audiences**
Fully planned and ready-to-teach 6-lesson scheme of work for Eduqas GCSE Media Studies Component 1 Section B: Radio – Desert Island Discs (BBC Radio 4).
This resource is designed specifically for the Eduqas specification and supports delivery of the Radio section of Component 1 (Industries, Audiences and Contexts) through a structured, knowledge-rich sequence that builds exam confidence from the outset
Covers all radio specification content:
BBC Radio 4 and Public Service Broadcasting (PSB)
BBC funding model (licence fee) and regulation
Radio industries: production, distribution, and broadcasting
Audience targeting, segmentation, and consumption
Uses and Gratifications theory applied to radio listening
Programme format, purpose, and structure of Desert Island Discs
Social, cultural, and historical context of BBC radio
What’s included:
188-slide fully structured PowerPoint scheme of work
16-page pupil booklet for guided and independent learning
Eduqas-aligned Media Studies terminology glossary
Exam-style Section B questions with model answers and scaffolding
Complete 6-lesson sequence with clear progression and retrieval practice
Lesson structure:
Retrieval Do Now activities to strengthen long-term memory
Clear learning objectives linked to specification requirements
Teacher modelling (I Do / We Do / You Do)
Silent and solo practice tasks to build independence
Hinge questions for formative assessment
Structured paired discussion tasks
Exam-style Section B responses embedded throughout
Self-assessment (Tick and Fix)
Exit tickets and mini plenaries for consolidation
Key exam skills covered:
Understanding radio industries and BBC organisation
Application of Public Service Broadcasting (PSB)
Audience theory including Uses and Gratifications
Audience segmentation and targeting
Media consumption in the digital age (radio, podcasting, BBC iPlayer)
Contextual understanding of UK radio broadcasting
High impact:
Fully aligned to Eduqas specification requirements
Reduces teacher planning workload significantly
Builds exam confidence through structured progression
Supports mixed-ability GCSE classes
Encourages precise, exam-ready responses
Designed for consistent department-wide deliver
Created by an experienced GCSE Media Studies teacher (25+ years) and Eduqas examiner, ensuring full accuracy against assessment objectives and exam expectations for the 2027 set text
Ideal for:
Eduqas GCSE Media Studies teachers delivering Component 1 Section B: Radio (Desert Island Discs)
Departments updating schemes for the 2027 specification change
Schools standardising GCSE Media Studies delivery
Teachers needing a fully resourced, exam-focused radio unit