ITVS Community Classroom lesson plans pair educational film modules drawn from ITVS’s acclaimed documentary films with standards-based lesson plans, activities, and other interactive content.
Lesson Plans
 | Can You Own a Sound?The basic foundations of copyright law and how the music industry began to respond legally to sampling as hip-hop grew in popularity in the 1990s. From the Copyright Criminals Classroom collection |
 | Global Climate Change and the Ethics of IndustryThis lesson examines the factors behind global climate change, its detrimental ecological and cultural effects, and the means by which it can be mitigated, on both local and international levels. From the The Island President Classroom collection |
 | Hip Hop Sampling: Theft or Tribute?This module introduces students to the musical legacies of Clyde Stubblefield and George Clinton, two of the most heavily sampled musicians in hip-hop music. From the Copyright Criminals Classroom collection |
 | Hip-Hop and the Birth of SamplingWhat sampling is, and how it came to be widely used in the early days of hip-hop music. It also explores the socio-economic conditions that gave rise to hip-hop as a form of cultural expression, and introduces the seminal work of the rap group Public Enemy. From the Copyright Criminals Classroom collection |
 | Sampling in Other Forms of Media and IndustryThis module explores how other art forms such as the blues and Walt Disney movies have “borrowed” from the work of other artists, and introduces some of the artists at the front of the remix culture that has emerged in the 21st century. From the Copyright Criminals Classroom collection |
 | Universal Human Rights and the Ethics of GovernmentThis lesson explores the basic premise of human rights, the history of human rights abuse — both legislative and executive/military — and its consequences, human rights in the contemporary media, and the application of human rights issues to modern American life. From the The Island President Classroom collection |
