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Environmental Injustice At Work
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson using four short song excerpts to compare musical forms carrying messages about environmental justice in the workplace.
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Unit: Environmental JusticeKit: Media Constructions of Social Justice
Middle School, High School, College
15-30 Minutes
Subject Areas
Environmental Justice – For Whom, How and Why?
In this media literacy activity students analyze videos for messages about impacts and potential remedies for environmental justice.
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Middle School, High School, College
30-60 Minutes
Subject Areas
Health, Physical Sciences, Environmental Studies, Sociology
Ethanol: Pros and Cons
Media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students decode videos for messages about the benefits and costs of using corn-based ethanol as an energy source.
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Unit: Energy SourcesKit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Middle School
Middle School
15-30 Minutes
Subject Areas
Film/Video Arts, Commercial Arts/Advertising, Consumer Education, Physical Sciences, Environmental Studies, Economics, ELA/English Language Arts
Exploring Economic Models for a Healthy Planet and a Just Society
This is a media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students analyze three writings about sustainability and economy for conflicting perspectives on possible economic remedies to environmental destruction and economic inequality.
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Playlist: Economics & Social JusticeHigh School, College
30-60 Minutes
Subject Areas
Environmental Studies, Economics, Sociology, ELA/English Language Arts
Exploring Terms
Critical thinking lesson teaching key vocabulary and concepts about national, ethnic, religious and linguisitc identities within the Middle East.
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Unit: Introducing the Middle EastKit: Media Constructions of the Middle East
Middle School, High School, College
30-60 Minutes
Subject Areas
Psychology, Global Studies, Sociology
Exploring the Impact of Hydrofracking on Aquifers
Media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students decode diagrams for messages about how hydrofracking impacts freshwater resources.
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Unit: Energy SourcesKit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Middle School
Middle School
30-60 Minutes
Subject Areas
Health, Visual Arts, Physical Sciences, Environmental Studies, ELA/English Language Arts
Extreme Weather: Climate Change Connections & Water
Media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students decode webpages for messages about the relationship between climate change and extreme weather.
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Unit: Climate Change & WaterKit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Middle School
Middle School
15-30 Minutes
Subject Areas
Health, Visual Arts, Journalism, Physical Sciences, Environmental Studies, ELA/English Language Arts
Exxon Valdez, Oil and Water
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson using four short film excerpts to reflect on the impacts of the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
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Kit: Media Constructions of the Environment: Resource DepletionMiddle School, High School, College
30-60 Minutes
Subject Areas
Health, Film/Video Arts, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Environmental Studies, Economics, Sociology, ELA/English Language Arts
Faces of COVID-19 – Artists as Activists
In this media literacy activity students analyze short videos about the human faces of COVID-19 for messages about how artists work to humanize the pandemic.
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Middle School, High School, College
15-30 Minutes
Subject Areas
Health, Psychology, Visual Arts, Film/Video Arts, Journalism, Sociology
Fact Checkers: How Do They Decide?
In this media literacy activity students analyze fact checking websites for messages about their goals and processes for determining credibility.
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High School, College
30-60 Minutes
Subject Areas
Journalism, Consumer Education, Sociology, General Media Literacy, Library/Information Literacy, ELA/English Language Arts
Fact or Fiction? A Snopes.com and Urban Legends Activity
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson introducing students to data collection through surveys and reflecting on why so many people believe in urban legends.
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Middle School, High School, College
15-30 Minutes
Subject Areas
Psychology, Visual Arts, Sociology, General Media Literacy, Library/Information Literacy, ELA/English Language Arts
Family Planning: Why it Matters
This is a media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students analyze three short video clips for messages about the needs for and impacts of family planning.
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High School, College
15-30 Minutes
Subject Areas
Health, Film/Video Arts, Global Studies, Economics, Sociology
Farming, Community, and Sustainability
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson analyzing the roles of community, farmers and farm labor in food system sustainability using visual imagery, film and song.
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Kit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Food, Water, and AgricultureHigh School, College
Over 60 Minutes
Subject Areas
Visual Arts, Film/Video Arts, Commercial Arts/Advertising, Music, Life Sciences, Environmental Studies, US History And Government, US History, Civics And Government, Economics, Sociology, ELA/English Language Arts
Fighting Back Against Religious Intolerance
In this media literacy activity students analyze videos for messages about how young people challenge religious intolerance.
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Upper Elementary, Middle School, High School, College
30-60 Minutes
Subject Areas
Health, Psychology, Film/Video Arts, Global Studies, Sociology
First Contact: Who’s Telling the Story?
This is a media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students analyze two paintings about first contact between Native Americans and Spanish conquistadors for messages about historical context and point of view. .
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Upper Elementary, Middle School, High School, College
15-30 Minutes
Subject Areas
Visual Arts, US History And Government, US History, Civics And Government, Sociology, General Media Literacy, Library/Information Literacy
Food Crisis in Africa
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson analyzing brief videos about the food crisis from four African countries.
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Playlist: Global StudiesKit: Global Media Perspectives
High School, College
30-60 Minutes
Subject Areas
Health, Student Media Production, Film/Video Arts, Global Studies
Food Security
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson analyzing videos and text excerpts as a means to understand the conditions required for food security, the causes of food insecurity and potential solutions leading to food security.
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Kit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Food, Water, and AgricultureHigh School, College
Over 60 Minutes
Subject Areas
Health, Film/Video Arts, Journalism, Nutrition, Life Sciences, Environmental Studies, Economics, Sociology, ELA/English Language Arts
Food Waste: What’s the Problem? What’s the Solution?
In this media literacy activity students analyze videos for messages about the problems and potential solutions related to global food waste and climate change.
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Middle School, High School, College
15-30 Minutes
Subject Areas
Health, Nutrition, Consumer Education, Environmental Studies, Global Studies, Economics, Sociology
Football and Concussions: the NFL vs. Scientific Research
In this media literacy activity students analyze short video clips from an investigative documentary TV program, a feature film, and a congressional hearing for messages about the impact of football on brain disease to assess credibility in film representations of historic events.
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Middle School, High School, College
30-60 Minutes
Subject Areas
Health, Film/Video Arts, Journalism, Life Sciences, US History And Government, US History, Civics And Government, Sociology
Freedom Fighters or Terrorists?
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson comparing media representations of Afghani fighters before and after the 9/11 attacks in two documentary films.
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Unit: Militant Muslims and the U.S.Kit: Media Constructions of the Middle East
High School, College
30-60 Minutes
Subject Areas
Film/Video Arts, Journalism, Global Studies, Sociology