Fortnite - Set Text

A complete, fully resourced unit on Fortnite for Eduqas GCSE Media Studies Component 1, Section B.

What’s included:
Five PowerPoint lessons, each paired with a 27-page pupil booklet (used across all five lessons). Pupil booklet included as a PDF and editable word document.

Lesson 1

Industry: Epic Games’ business model, ownership, and production context. Covers free-to-play economics, in-game purchasing, and the media industries framework.

Lesson 2

Audiences: Target audiences, audience engagement, and how Fortnite constructs and maintains a global audience through cross-platform play, events, and updates.

Lesson 3

Regulation: PEGI ratings, age appropriateness, loot box controversy, and the role of regulatory bodies including ASA and PEGI.

Lesson 4

Ethics: Impact on children, social and cultural impacts, moral outrage.

**Lesson 5 **

Theory: Application of key media theories including Hall’s Representation, Cultivation Theory, and the Uses and Gratifications framework to Fortnite as a digital media product.

Teaching approach:

Fully animated PowerPoints, with individual slide teaching notes.

Each lesson uses direct instruction methodology informed by Doug Lemov’s Teach Like a Champion, strategies including:

• Cold Call questioning built into slides to maximise participation and hold students accountable
• No Opt Out structures so every student engages with the material
• Check for Understanding checkpoints throughout each lesson
• I Do / We Do / You Do scaffolding for complex exam skills
• Stretch It prompts for higher-attaining students
• Chunked, sequenced content to reduce cognitive overload
• Exam-style questions with model answers and mark scheme guidance

The pupil booklet accompanies all five lessons with structured note-taking frames, key terminology, exam practice questions, and theory application tasks - ready to print or use digitally.

Created by an experienced Head of Media Studies with over 25 years in the classroom. This is not a basic lesson plan - it’s a teacher-proof, exam-ready teaching sequence built around evidence-based direct instruction principles.

Who is this for?

GCSE Media Studies teachers delivering the Eduqas specification, particularly Component 1 (Section B). Suitable for Years 10 and 11. No extra preparation needed - open and teach.