Coal: Benefits and Costs
Media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students decode a magazine cover and spread for messages about how human use of natural resources for energy affects the biosphere.
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Coal: Benefits and Costs
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Unit: Energy SourcesKit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Middle School
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Relevant Subject Area(s)
Visual Arts, Commercial Arts/Advertising, Journalism, Physical Sciences, Environmental Studies, ELA/English Language ArtsGrade Level(s)
Middle SchoolMedia Type(s)
News - Print, PhotographAuthor(s)
Sox SperryView Standards
Resource Standard Common Core ELA StrandReading For Science and Technical Subjects (RST), Reading: History Social Studies (RH), Writing-History Science and Technical Subjects (WHST)