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**Public Service Announcements**

 * Ok, so what is a Public Service Announcement or PSA?**

Research the following sites to answer the questions, then write a response in your notebook. Be sure to add details in your answer and explain with examples.

[|PSA definition from the Museum of Broadcast Communications]
 * Websites**:

[|The Community Toolbox]

What is a Public Service Announcement?
 * Questions**:

What is the purpose of a PSA? Why are they made?

Name some elements of a PSA.


 * View the example below to give you an idea of the components of a PSA, and answer the following questions after watching it. **

What is the purpose of this PSA, or what is the message?

Do you receive any information about an issue?

Does this PSA make you feel anything?

Does the PSA give you ideas of ways you can help the issue? If so, what are they?

Think of some topics that would make a good PSA. List at least 5. (You can b//rainstorm with a partner//)

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From this website; [|Water PSA]