Classroom

Custom film modules and lesson plans for educators

The producers of Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide worked with ITVS’s Community Classroom program to create dynamic educational resources to inspire young people to engage with the most pressing issues facing women and girls worldwide.

Custom lesson plans draw on content from the film's website as well as the film to provide a media rich learning experience that will connect students to the lives of the women and girls featured in the project with their own. Lesson plans also address the critical role men play in supporting this global movement towards greater equality and opportunities for all.

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Resources include film modules and lesson plans based on each of the theme areas addressed in the mini-series:

• Maternal Mortality
• Economic Empowerment
• Education
• Forced Prostitution and Sex Trafficking
• Gender-Based Violence

Students will learn about the status of women and girls in the countries of Cambodia, India, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Somaliland and Vietnam, as well as the leaders in these countries who are implementing courageous and often risky measures to secure a promising future for women and girls everywhere.

Film modules and lesson plans are targeted towards high school and college students and align with key national standards. Activities and discussion questions were developed with adaptability in mind and for use in the community, beyond traditional educational settings.

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Presented by ITVS, funded by Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the American people, with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional program funding provided by the Ikea Foundation, US Agency for International Development (USAID) (in partnership with FHI-360 and C-Change), Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women, the Ford Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Coca-Cola Foundation, the NoVo Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Seedling Foundation, the Nike Foundation, the United Nations Foundation. 

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide is not in any way affiliated with or in partnership with the Half the Sky Foundation, a nonprofit organization created in 1998 to enrich the lives and enhance the prospects for orphaned children in China. For more information about the Half the Sky Foundation, visit halfthesky.org.