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Latin American Immigration in Editorial Cartoons
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson analyzing messages about U.S. immigration in editorial cartoons from 5 Latin American countries.
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Kit: Global Media PerspectivesHigh School, College
30-60 Minutes, Over 60 Minutes
Subject Areas
Lemmings: Documentary Film Clip Decoding
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson reflecting on the influence of the media on people's beliefs about science and teaching ways to check the validity of questionable claims.
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Middle School, High School, College
15-30 Minutes
Subject Areas
Film/Video Arts, Life Sciences, Sociology, General Media Literacy, Library/Information Literacy, ELA/English Language Arts
Let Us Tell You About the Animals Where We Live
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson analyzing various media documents focused on messages about human impacts on animals and creating a simple video production based on impacts to animals where you live and action ideas to protect them.
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Playlist: Elementary Critical Thinking Skill BuildingUnit: Animals (lower elementary)
Kit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Lower Elementary
Lower Elementary
Over 60 Minutes
Subject Areas
Student Media Production, Visual Arts, Film/Video Arts, Commercial Arts/Advertising, Consumer Education, Life Sciences, Environmental Studies, ELA/English Language Arts
Let Us Tell You About the Bodies of Water Where We Live
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson analyzing book covers for messages about water-centered disasters related to oil spills, drought and hurricanes and creating a simple video production based on impacts to your region's water bodies and action ideas to protect them.
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Unit: Water (lower elementary)Kit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Lower Elementary
Lower Elementary
Over 60 Minutes
Subject Areas
Health, Student Media Production, Visual Arts, Film/Video Arts, Commercial Arts/Advertising, Physical Sciences, Environmental Studies, ELA/English Language Arts
Life on the Inside
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson using excerpts from four songs to reflect on messages about prison life and survival within prison.
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Unit: Prison JusticeKit: Media Constructions of Social Justice
Middle School, High School, College
30-60 Minutes
Subject Areas
Music, US History And Government, US History, Civics And Government, Sociology
Liquids in Spiderman vs. Hydroman
This is a media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students analyze two short excerpts from an educational video on the changing states of water and a Spiderman vs. Hydroman cartoon for representations of the liquid state of water.
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Lower Elementary
15-30 Minutes
Subject Areas
Physical Sciences, General Media Literacy, Library/Information Literacy
Living Wage
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson comparing two opinion pieces about Living Wage laws.
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Playlist: Economics & Social JusticeKit: Economics in U.S. History: A Media Literacy Kit
Middle School, High School, College
30-60 Minutes
Subject Areas
Journalism, US History And Government, US History, Civics And Government, Economics, Sociology, ELA/English Language Arts
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.
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High School, College
30-60 Minutes
Subject Areas
Visual Arts, Global Studies, Sociology, Library/Information Literacy, ELA/English Language Arts
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Making Friends with the Enemy
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson using four short song excerpts to reflect on the impact of war on the Nicaraguan people.
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Unit: Central American WarsKit: Media Constructions of Peace
Middle School, High School, College
30-60 Minutes
Subject Areas
Psychology, Music, US History And Government, US History, Civics And Government, Sociology
Making Human Junk : Child Labor Poster
Students analyze a 1915 poster for messages about child labor and about the early use of photography in poster design. This simple decoding activity has been taken from a larger lesson with many slides titled “Which Side Are You On?” To access this lesson, type the title with quotes into the PLS keyword search bar.
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High School, College
Under 15 Minutes
Subject Areas
US History
Mapping Ancient Civilizations: Who’s Included and Who’s Not?
In this media literacy activity students analyze the bias and techniques used in maps of ancient civilizations.
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Upper Elementary, Middle School, High School, College
30-60 Minutes
Subject Areas
Global Studies, Sociology, General Media Literacy, Library/Information Literacy
Mapping the Border: Who Decides?
This is a media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students analyze different maps of the U.S. Mexico border region for messages about how mapmakers use images and words to convey messages.
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Middle School, High School, College
30-60 Minutes
Subject Areas
Visual Arts, Commercial Arts/Advertising, US History And Government, US History, Civics And Government, Global Studies, Sociology, General Media Literacy, Library/Information Literacy
Marketing OxyContin: Profits, Lives and Disinformation
Media documents are excerpts from a company memo from Purdue Pharma, an investigative reporting video, an online article and two government reports related to the marketing of OxyContin. Students analyze messages about the role of industry in fueling the opioid epidemic and the credibility of the media documents.
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High School, College
30-60 Minutes
Subject Areas
Health, Commercial Arts/Advertising, Journalism, Consumer Education, US History And Government, US History, Civics And Government, Economics, Sociology, General Media Literacy, Library/Information Literacy
Mass Shootings: Tracking the Numbers
This is a media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students decode a blog post, a fact checking website and an article in a national magazine for messages about sourcing and credibility.
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High School, College
30-60 Minutes
Subject Areas
Health, Math, Journalism, US History And Government, US History, Civics And Government, Sociology, General Media Literacy, Library/Information Literacy
Math, Media, and Me
Students analyze web videos and feature film clips for messages about how mathematicians solve complex problems, our own reactions to math, and media portrayals of math problem solving.
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Middle School, High School
15-30 Minutes
Subject Areas
Math, Psychology, Film/Video Arts, Library/Information Literacy
May 14 1948: Independence or Catastrophe?
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson analyzing two conflicting accounts of the meaning of the founding of the state of Israel.
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Unit: Israel/Palestine: Histories in ConflictKit: Media Constructions of the Middle East
High School, College
30-60 Minutes
Subject Areas
Global Studies, ELA/English Language Arts
Meat or Veggies? The Impact of Diet on Climate
In this media literacy activity students analyze a documentary film and a television news report for messages about how plant-based and meat-based diets impact climate change.
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High School, College
15-30 Minutes
Subject Areas
Health, Journalism, Nutrition, Consumer Education, Environmental Studies, Economics, Sociology
Media Bias Charts: Who’s Rating What?
In this media literacy activity students analyze 4 charts on the political bias of different news sources with background information on the authors and methodology for each chart, to reflect on credibility, political bias in the media, the student’s own confirmation biases, and extremist views on the Internet.
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High School, College
30-60 Minutes
Subject Areas
Journalism, Consumer Education, Sociology, General Media Literacy, Library/Information Literacy
Media Constructions of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence
Students analyze diverse media forms related to John Trumbull’s famous painting of the signing of the Declaration of Independence for messages about the event, the credibility and qualities of different media forms, and about American history.
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Middle School, High School
30-60 Minutes
Subject Areas
Commercial Arts/Advertising, US History And Government, US History, Civics And Government, Sociology, Library/Information Literacy, ELA/English Language Arts
Media Coverage of the Gulf War
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson analyzing bias in documentary video and teaching about the U.S. government's role in influencing media coverage of the Gulf War.
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Unit: War in Iraq: Whose Voice, Whose Story?Kit: Media Constructions of the Middle East
High School, College
30-60 Minutes
Subject Areas
Film/Video Arts, Journalism, US History And Government, US History, Civics And Government, Global Studies, Sociology