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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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Unit: Energy Sources
Kit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Middle School
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Resource Details


Relevant Subject Area(s)

Visual Arts, Commercial Arts/Advertising, Journalism, Physical Sciences, Environmental Studies, ELA/English Language Arts

Grade Level(s)

Middle School

Media Type(s)

News - Print, Photograph

Author(s)

Sox Sperry

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Resource Standard Common Core ELA Strand
Reading For Science and Technical Subjects (RST), Reading: History Social Studies (RH), Writing-History Science and Technical Subjects (WHST)