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Science or Fiction – Does Carrying an Umbrella in a Thunderstorm Make You More Likely to be Hit by Lightning?
Students analyze a cartoon and a weather channel video for messages about whether carrying an umbrella is potentially hazardous and about credibility in Internet videos.
Upper Elementary
15-30 Minutes
Indigenous Media Making: Affirming Identity
Students analyze short videos from TikTok, a feature film, a video game, Hip-Hop video, and a documentary film for messages related to Indigenous identity and cultural pride.
Middle School, High School, College
30-60 Minutes
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
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
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
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
How Does the World Look? Questioning Maps
Students analyze different world map projections to identify point of view or bias in maps.
Upper Elementary, Middle School
Whole Class
15-30 Minutes
Ageism in Advertising: Promoting or Countering Stereotypes?
Students analyze television commercials for messages about stereotypes and counter-stereotypes of elders.
Upper Elementary, Middle School, High School, College
Whole Class
15-30 Minutes
Regulating Social Media: How About It?
Students analyze five short video clips for different messages about the regulation of social media.
High School, College
Whole Class
30-60 Minutes
The U.S. Exits Afghanistan: Lessons from the Newspaper Front Pages
Students analyze newspaper front pages from August 2021 for messages about media representation of the U.S. exit from Afghanistan.
Middle School, High School
Whole Class
30-60 Minutes
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.
High School, College
Individual, Group - Small (3-5 Members), Whole Class
30-60 Minutes
High Fructose Corn Syrup? Is There a Problem? Who Says?
Students analyze a commercial from the Corn Refiners Association, a blog post from an industry-supported group and an article from the Union of Concerned Scientists for messages about the health impacts of high fructose corn syrup, the spread of scientific misinformation and how funders influence media messages.
High School, College
Individual, Group - Small (3-5 Members), Whole Class
30-60 Minutes