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Natural Resources - How Do we Use Them?



Media literacy and critical thinking lesson analyzing book and magazine covers to discern messages about how the use of natural resources for energy affects the environment.



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Unit: Natural Resources
Kit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Upper Elementary
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Resource Details


Relevant Subject Area(s)

Visual Arts, Commercial Arts/Advertising, Consumer Education, Physical Sciences, Environmental Studies, Economics, Sociology, ELA/English Language Arts

Grade Level(s)

Upper Elementary

Media Type(s)

Illustration, Informational Text, News - Print, Photograph, Webpage

Author(s)

Sox Sperry

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Resource Standard Common Core ELA Strand
Reading: Informational text (RI), Writing (W)