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Sea Level Rise: Climate Change Impacts
Media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students decode videos for messages about conflicting data on the contribution of polar melting to sea level rise.
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: Climate ChangeUnit: Climate Change & Water
Kit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Middle School
Middle School
Individual, Whole Class
15-30 Minutes
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.
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: Climate Change & WaterKit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Middle School
Middle School
Individual, Whole Class
15-30 Minutes
El Nino: Connections to Global Warming
Media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students decode videos for messages about patterns of ocean warming during an El Nino year and the subsequent impacts on worldwide weather.
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: Climate Change & WaterKit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Middle School
Middle School
Individual, Whole Class
15-30 Minutes
Natural Gas: Water & Climate Impacts
Media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students decode an advertisement and a web page for messages about how natural gas extraction impacts fresh water resources.
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: Climate Change & WaterKit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Middle School
Middle School
Individual, Whole Class
15-30 Minutes
Poverty: Climate Change & Water Security
Media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students decode web pages for messages about the conditions that make people living in poverty extremely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.
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 JusticeUnit: Climate Change & Water
Kit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Middle School
Middle School
Individual, Whole Class
15-30 Minutes
Drought & Farming: Thirsty Crops
Media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students decode web pages and graphs for messages about how agricultural demands for irrigation impact freshwater resources during times of drought.
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: Climate ChangeUnit: Climate Change & Water
Kit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Middle School
Middle School
Individual, Whole Class
15-30 Minutes
Drought Causes: Climate Change Impacts
Media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students decode web pages messages about the relationship between climate change and droughts.
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: Climate Change & WaterKit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Middle School
Middle School
Individual, Whole Class
15-30 Minutes
Watersheds: Stewardship & Climate Change
Media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students decode web pages messages about which strategies might be most useful to deal with climate change impacts on human communities.
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: Climate Change & WaterKit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Middle School
Middle School
Individual, Whole Class
15-30 Minutes
Valuing Water: Different Perspectives
Media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students decode a book covers and tables of content for messages about human impacts on freshwater resources.
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: Climate Change & WaterKit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Middle School
Middle School
Individual, Whole Class
15-30 Minutes
Oil Palm Plantations: Effects on Tropical Rainforests
Media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students decode a TV commercial and a documentary film excerpt for messages about the benefits and costs of transforming a tropical rainforest into an oil palm plantation to supply the global market.
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
Middle School
Individual, Whole Class
15-30 Minutes
Trophy Hunting: Conservation or Destruction?
Media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students decode a poster and a webpage for messages about the impact of trophy hunting on animal species.
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
Middle School
Individual, Whole Class
15-30 Minutes
Pollution: Industrial Restoration or Destruction
Media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students decode an advertisement and a webpage for messages about the impact of the impact of industrial pollution on ecosystem relationships.
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
Middle School
Individual, Whole Class
15-30 Minutes
Invasive Species: How Do We Stop an Invasion?
Media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students decode a poster and a webpage for messages about the impact of introducing invasive species into an ecosystem.
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
Middle School
Individual, Whole Class
15-30 Minutes
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
Middle School
Individual, Whole Class
15-30 Minutes
Climate: Climate Change & Biodiversity
Media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students decode webpages for messages about the impact of climate change on ecosystem 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
Middle School
Individual, Whole Class
15-30 Minutes
Rachel Carson: Who Controls Nature?
Media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students decode videos for messages about the impact of DDT on the ecosystem.
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
Middle School
Individual, Whole Class
15-30 Minutes
Interrelationships: Human & Buffalo
Media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students decode videos for messages about the interdependent relationships between people and buffalo.
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
Middle School
Individual, Whole Class
15-30 Minutes
Species Preservation: Seeking Solutions
Media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students decode videos for messages about how people take action to address local and global problems related to the loss of 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
Middle School
Individual, Whole Class
15-30 Minutes
Hydrofracking Pros & Cons: Arguing the Case
Media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students decode videos for messages about how hydrofracking impacts the biosphere.
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: Energy SourcesKit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Middle School
Middle School
Individual, Whole Class
15-30 Minutes
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.
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: Energy SourcesKit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Middle School
Middle School
Individual, Whole Class
30-60 Minutes
Hydropower Dams: To Build or to Dismantle?
Media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students decode videos for messages about claims related to hydropower dam building or removal.
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: Energy SourcesKit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Middle School
Middle School
Individual, Whole Class
30-60 Minutes
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.
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: Energy SourcesKit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Middle School
Middle School
Individual, Whole Class
15-30 Minutes
Comparing Renewables: U.S. vs. Global Energy Use
Media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students decode graphs for messages about how the use of renewable energy sources can help to reduce human vulnerability to climate change.
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: Energy Sources
Kit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Middle School
Middle School
Individual, Whole Class
30-60 Minutes
Wind: Benefits and Costs
Media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students decode a book cover and a tweet for messages about how human use of natural resources for energy affects the biosphere.
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: Energy SourcesKit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Middle School
Middle School
Individual, Whole Class
30-60 Minutes
Solar: Benefits and Costs
Media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students decode a webpage and a magazine cover for messages about how human use of natural resources for energy affects the biosphere.
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: Energy SourcesKit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Middle School
Middle School
Individual, Whole Class
15-30 Minutes
Oil: Benefits and Costs
Media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students decode a book cover and report cover for messages about how human use of natural resources for energy affects the biosphere.
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: Energy SourcesKit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Middle School
Middle School
Individual, Whole Class
15-30 Minutes
Nuclear: Benefits and Costs
Media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students decode webpages for messages about how human use of natural resources for energy affects the biosphere.
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: Energy SourcesKit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Middle School
Middle School
Individual, Whole Class
15-30 Minutes
Hydropower: Benefits and Costs
Media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students decode webpages for messages about how human use of natural resources for energy affects the biosphere.
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: Energy SourcesKit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Middle School
Middle School
Individual, Whole Class
15-30 Minutes
Coal: Benefits and Costs
Media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students decode a magazine cover and spread for messages about how human use of natural resources for energy affects the biosphere.
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: Energy SourcesKit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Middle School
Middle School
Individual, Whole Class
15-30 Minutes
Making Videos about Sustainability Efforts
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson in which students collaboratively design a short video message about a sustainability effort.
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: Documenting Sustainability StoriesUnit: Production
Kit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Upper Elementary
Upper Elementary
Pair, Whole Class
Over 60 Minutes
What About Bottled Water?
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson analyzing videos and TV commercials to discern messages about decisions to purchase or not purchase bottled water.
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: Water (upper elementary)Kit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Upper Elementary
Upper Elementary
Pair, Whole Class
Over 60 Minutes
How Much Water Did it Take to Grow That?
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson analyzing web pages and bar graphs to discern messages about the impact of agriculture on freshwater availability.
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: Elementary Critical Thinking Skill BuildingUnit: Water (upper elementary)
Kit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Upper Elementary
Upper Elementary
Pair, Whole Class
Over 60 Minutes
Where Does Water Go?
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson analyzing videos to discern messages about the role of the hydrologic cycle in creating watersheds.
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: Water (upper elementary)Kit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Upper Elementary
Upper Elementary
Individual, Whole Class
Over 60 Minutes
Why Protect Our Water Resources?
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson analyzing book and report covers and tables of contents to discern messages about how people impact water supplies and what individuals and communities can do to protect water resources.
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: Water (upper elementary)Kit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Upper Elementary
Upper Elementary
Pair, Whole Class
Over 60 Minutes
Protecting Our Water Resources Assessment
Media literacy and critical thinking assessment analyzing messages in videos and writing a report on the protection of water resources.
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: Water (upper elementary)Kit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Upper Elementary
Upper Elementary
Individual
30-60 Minutes
Deciding On Our Food Choices Assessment
Media literacy and critical thinking assessment analyzing messages in posters and writing about food choice messages and persuasion techniques in posters.
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: Food ChoicesKit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Upper Elementary
Upper Elementary
Individual
30-60 Minutes
Consumer Choices About Natural Resource Use Assessment
Media literacy and critical thinking assessment analyzing messages in a book cover and poster and writing an opinion piece on consumer choices,
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: Natural ResourcesKit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Upper Elementary
Upper Elementary
Individual
30-60 Minutes
Renewable Energy Sources - Who's Running the Numbers?
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson analyzing written text, web pages and bar graphs to discern messages about renewable energy use.
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: Natural ResourcesKit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Upper Elementary
Upper Elementary
Pair, Whole Class
Over 60 Minutes
Logging - What About Biodiversity?
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson analyzing videos & childrens books to discern messages about the impacts of logging 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:
Playlist: English Language ArtsUnit: Natural Resources
Kit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Upper Elementary
Upper Elementary
Pair, Whole Class
Over 60 Minutes
Oil Spills: What's the Problem?
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson analyzing newspaper headlines, web pages and videos to discern messages about how oil spills impact human and natural populations.
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: Natural ResourcesKit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Upper Elementary
Upper Elementary
Individual, Pair, Whole Class
Over 60 Minutes
Dams and Rivers: To Build Or To Remove?
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson analyzing videos to discern messages about the human benefits and environmental impacts of building and removing hydropower dams
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: Natural ResourcesKit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Upper Elementary
Upper Elementary
Group - Small (3-5 Members), Whole Class
Over 60 Minutes
Natural Resources - How Do we Use Them?
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson analyzing book and magazine covers to discern messages about how the use of natural resources for energy affects the environment.
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: Natural ResourcesKit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Upper Elementary
Upper Elementary
Individual, Pair, Whole Class
30-60 Minutes
Where Does My Food Come From?
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson analyzing videos to discern messages about the production and transportation of food.
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: Food ChoicesKit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Upper Elementary
Upper Elementary
Pair, Whole Class
Over 60 Minutes
How Do We Decide How Much To Eat And Drink?
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson analyzing web pages and food diagrams to discern messages about food servings.
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: Food ChoicesKit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Upper Elementary
Upper Elementary
Pair, Whole Class
Over 60 Minutes
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.
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: Elementary Critical Thinking Skill BuildingUnit: Animals (lower elementary)
Kit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Lower Elementary
Lower Elementary
Group - Small (3-5 Members), Whole Class
Over 60 Minutes
Let Us Tell You About the Plants Where We Live
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson analyzing book covers focused on different messages about human impacts on plants and creating a simple video production based on impacts to plants and action ideas to protect them.
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: Plants (lower elementary)Kit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Lower Elementary
Lower Elementary
Group - Small (3-5 Members), Whole Class
Over 60 Minutes
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.
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: Water (lower elementary)Kit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Lower Elementary
Lower Elementary
Group - Small (3-5 Members), Whole Class
Over 60 Minutes
I Want to Protect These Animals
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson analyzing postcards about different classes of animals, reflecting on cyber safety in online research and creating postcards of animals students would like to protect.
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: Animals (lower elementary)Kit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Lower Elementary
Lower Elementary
Individual, Whole Class
Over 60 Minutes
I Want to Protect These Plants
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson analyzing postcards about plant needs for water, sunlight and pollinators, reflecting on cyber safety in online research and creating postcards of plants students would like to protect.
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: Plants (lower elementary)Kit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Lower Elementary
Lower Elementary
Individual, Whole Class
Over 60 Minutes
I Want to Protect This Body of Water
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson analyzing postcards about bodies of water, reflecting on cyber safety in online research and creating postcards of water bodies students would like to protect.
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: Water (lower elementary)Kit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Lower Elementary
Lower Elementary
Individual, Whole Class
Over 60 Minutes