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Dorothy Day: Catholic Worker and Peacemaker
Students analyze a calendar cover and a painting for messages about Dorothy Day, the Catholic Worker movement and about discerning media forms. This simple decoding activity has been taken from a larger lesson with many slides titled “Working For Peace Working for Justice”. To access this lesson, type the title with quotes into the PLS keyword search bar.
Under 15 Minutes Illustration
Election 2020 – The Facts are Clear but Who Do We Trust?
Students analyze tweets, a press conference statement, a video opinion piece, a press release and a fact checking webpage for messages about the 2020 Presidential election results and media credibility.
30-60 Minutes Editorial Opinion, News - Video, Web Video, News - Video, Speech, Editorial Opinion, Informational Text, News - Video, Social Media, Speech, Web Video
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.
This lesson is part of a "kit" or collection of media decoding lessons on a particular topic. You can explore that kit using the link below:
Unit: Environmental JusticeKit: Media Constructions of Social Justice
15-30 Minutes
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. .
15-30 Minutes Illustration
Flags: Geometry, Algebra and Cultural Context
This math and/or social studies lesson has students analyze flags from around the world, to understand aspect ratio, flag design and historical context.
30-60 Minutes Illustration
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.
30-60 Minutes Documentary Film, Feature Film, News - Video, Television Program, Television Commercial, News - Video
For Peace or Against Oppression?
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson using diverse media imagery to teach about the history of antiwar movements during the World War Two period.
This lesson is part of a "kit" or collection of media decoding lessons on a particular topic. You can explore that kit using the link below:
Unit: World War TwoKit: Media Constructions of Peace
30-60 Minutes Editorial Cartoon, Illustration, Informational Text, Poster
Friend or Foe?
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson using diverse media imagery to teach about the history of antiwar movements during the Central American wars of the Reagan administration.
This lesson is part of a "kit" or collection of media decoding lessons on a particular topic. You can explore that kit using the link below:
Playlist: Global StudiesUnit: Central American Wars
Kit: Media Constructions of Peace
30-60 Minutes Illustration, News - Print, Poster, Webpage
Fyre Festival: Gender, Wealth and Happiness in Social Media
Students analyze a short video ad and social media posts for messages about gender, wealth and success; to assess the credibility of media messages; and to reflect on the role media play in shaping our views.
15-30 Minutes
GMO Yes or No - Decoding Movie Trailers
Students analyze two short movie trailers for messages about GMOs, to ask and answer questions about sourcing and credibility, and to reflect on their own confirmation biases.
Under 15 Minutes Documentary Film, Web Video
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.
30-60 Minutes Web Video, Animated Film, Web Video
Gay Affirmative or Gay Negative
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson using four short film excerpts to reflect on intolerance toward LGBT people and forms of resistance to intolerance.
This lesson is part of a "kit" or collection of media decoding lessons on a particular topic. You can explore that kit using the link below:
Unit: Gay LiberationKit: Media Constructions of Social Justice
30-60 Minutes Animated Film, Documentary Film, Television Program
Habitat Destruction: The Idea of Progress
Media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students decode a painting and a Facebook post for messages about the impact of habitat destruction on biodiversity.
This lesson is part of a "kit" or collection of media decoding lessons on a particular topic. You can explore that kit using the link below:
Unit: BiodiversityKit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Middle School
15-30 Minutes Illustration, Webpage
Halloween Costumes: When Does Fun Turn Into Hurt?
Students analyze a commercial and video analysis for messages about cultural appropriation in Halloween costumes and how identity impacts responses to media.
15-30 Minutes Television Commercial, Web Video
Harriet Tubman Seizes Freedom – Many Stories
In this media literacy activity students analyze excerpts from children’s books for messages about Harriet Tubman, enslavement and the Underground Railroad.
15-30 Minutes Illustration, Informational Text, Literature
Hate Culture, the Internet, and What Can We Do?
Students analyze videos for messages about how digital platforms, especially social media, accelerate hate ideology and about actions people can take to challenge hate speech.
30-60 Minutes Web Video, Documentary Film, News - Video, Documentary Film, Web Video
Health Care and Wal-Mart
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson comparing two short videos about Wal-Mart's healthcare policies.
This lesson is part of a "kit" or collection of media decoding lessons on a particular topic. You can explore that kit using the link below:
Playlist: Economics & Social JusticeKit: Economics in U.S. History: A Media Literacy Kit
15-30 Minutes Documentary Film
Hear Our Voices
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson using diverse media imagery to teach about the history of the women's suffrage movement in the United States.
This lesson is part of a "kit" or collection of media decoding lessons on a particular topic. You can explore that kit using the link below:
Unit: Women's SuffrageKit: Media Constructions of Social Justice
30-60 Minutes, Over 60 Minutes Editorial Cartoon, Editorial Opinion, Illustration, Informational Text, Map, Music/song, News - Print, Photograph, Poster, Webpage
Hiroshima/Nagasaki Legacy
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson using excerpts from four songs to reflect on the impact and meaning of the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
This lesson is part of a "kit" or collection of media decoding lessons on a particular topic. You can explore that kit using the link below:
Unit: World War TwoKit: Media Constructions of Peace
30-60 Minutes Music/song
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.
30-60 Minutes News - Video, Documentary Film, News - Video, Television Program, Web Video, Documentary Film, Television Program, Web Video