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Global Perspectives Through Movie Posters
Students analyze pairs of movie posters advertising the same film for different national audiences for messages about cultural perspectives and design choices.
Middle School, High School
15-30 Minutes
America: Through Music Videos
Students analyze excerpts from music videos about America for messages about identity, media forms and historical and cultural context.
Middle School, High School, College
30-60 Minutes
Censoring Seuss: Cancel Culture or Cultural Respect?
Students evaluate pages from Dr. Seuss books that were removed by the family for perpetuating stereotypes and then analyze a tweet and replies that includes support and criticism for censoring those images - discussing both the issues and the civility of the comments.
High School, College
30-60 Minutes
How Much Fruit is in this Drink? How Can You Tell?
This is a media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students decode juice containers for messages about health and nutrition.
Lower Elementary, Upper Elementary
15-30 Minutes
Is This Cereal Healthy? How Can You Find Out?
This is a media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students decode cereal box advertisements for messages about health and nutrition.
Upper Elementary
15-30 Minutes
The Face of Cereal: Using Cartoon Characters to Persuade Children
This is a media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students decode cereal packages for messages about health and advertising.
Lower Elementary
15-30 Minutes
Dinosaurs: What’s True and What’s Not?
Students analyze messages about dinosaurs in a film, an advertisement, a website, a video game, a TV program and a fiction and non-fiction book - and assess the credibility of each source.
Lower Elementary, Upper Elementary
15-30 Minutes
Louis XIV & Absolute Monarchy: Media Messages from the Time
Students analyze media documents from the era of Louis XIV - an oil painting, a royal medal, an excerpt from John Locke’s “Treatise on Government” and an excerpt from a French travel memoir - for messages about absolute monarchy, media forms and historical context.
High School, College
30-60 Minutes
What Can You Tell From a Book Cover?
Students analyze pairs of different covers for the same children’s book for messages about techniques, purpose, impact and target audience.
Lower Elementary, Upper Elementary
15-30 Minutes
Raptors in the Media
Students analyze a book cover, a magazine cover, a tweet, a poster, a website and a YouTube screen shot for messages about media forms, osprey, eagles and condors and environmental concerns.
Lower Elementary, Upper Elementary
15-30 Minutes
Butterflies in the Media
Students analyze a magazine cover, a T-shirt, a book cover, a webpage, a button and a comic for messages about butterflies, endangered species and media forms.
Lower Elementary, Upper Elementary
15-30 Minutes
Sports and Protest: Media and Civil Discourse
Students analyze a news report, an advocacy video and a twitter thread for messages about media bias, civil discourse and the role of athletes in social protest.
High School, College
30-60 Minutes
Can You Judge A Book by its Cover?
Students analyze pairs of different covers for the same children’s book for messages about techniques, purpose and target audience.
Upper Elementary
15-30 Minutes
What to Believe? Media Misrepresentations of the War in Ukraine
Students analyze social media and news videos for messages analyzing misinformation and bias in reports on Russia’s war on Ukraine.
High School, College
30-60 Minutes
Dolphins in the Media
Students analyze a book cover, a magazine cover, a tweet, a poster, a cartoon, a toy and an advertisement for messages about media forms, dolphins and environmental concerns.
Lower Elementary, Upper Elementary
15-30 Minutes
All You Need is Love: The Beatles in Music and Film
Students analyze excerpts from a documentary, an animated film and a video of a music performance, all centering on the song “All You Need Is Love,” for messages about artistic expression, historical context and interpretation.
Upper Elementary, Middle School, High School, College
30-60 Minutes
Historical Monuments: Whose History? Whose Choice?
Students analyze excerpts from a public television series, a news report and a web video for messages about how historic monuments/statues have been reappraised in the Black Lives Matter era in the U.S., Australia, and Latin America.
High School, College
Whole Class
30-60 Minutes
GMOs: Bias and Credibility in Media Messages
Students analyze three web videos from corporate, academic and activist sources for messages about genetically modified organisms, techniques used to sway the viewer, and questions about credibility and one’s own confirmation biases.
High School, College
Whole Class
30-60 Minutes
Aretha Franklin: Amazing Grace
Students analyze excerpts from a documentary and a TV mini-series about Aretha Franklin singing “Amazing Grace” for messages about artistic expression and the impact on individuals and society.
Middle School, High School, College
Whole Class
15-30 Minutes
Ukraine’s Holodomor – Famine or Stalinist Genocide?
In this lesson students read a brief history of the 1930’s famine in Ukraine that was caused by Joseph Stalin’s policy of forced collectivization and analyze posters produced by Stalin’s government and by Michael Gorbachev’s government for messages about Stalinism and the Holodomor.
High School, College
15-30 Minutes