Hey, Hey, What Do You Say... Let's Make a PSA

This set of lesson plans is offered by the Maine Public Broadcasting Service to help students learn how to make public service announcements. It is designed for grade levels 6-8 and 9-12 and can be downloaded for free. It is Part 2 of a two-part series.

The 12-page lesson plan lasts for 80 minutes and seeks to have students conceive, plan, and produce their own PSAs for television in the form of brief desktop movies. The skills they should learn include: researching a social topic and the controversial issues, consequences, and reform action steps surrounding that topic; defining a target audience and identifying ways to reach it; and, developing the components needed to produce a public service announcement, including outline, storyboard and treatment, shooting schedule, video editing, setting up actors, incorporating graphics, and logistics.

The lesson plans include step-by-step teacher guides, worksheets, evaluation forms and suggestions for involving community organisations.