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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
Questioning Manifest Destiny
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson using diverse media imagery to teach about efforts to oppose manifest destiny during the Indian Wars, Mexican War and Philippine-American War.
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: Wars of Manifest Destiny: Indian, Mexican and Spanish American WarsKit: Media Constructions of Peace
Over 60 Minutes
History of Chemicals in the Environment
Media literacy and critical thinking unit using diverse media imagery to teach about how chemicals in the environment have been perceived by people in the U.S. and how the media has constructed that public perception. Focus topics include pesticides, fertilizer, gasoline additives and persistent organic pollutants.
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:
Kit: Media Constructions of the Environment: Chemicals in the Environment
30-60 Minutes, Over 60 Minutes
History of Endangered Species
Media literacy and critical thinking unit using diverse media imagery to teach about how endangered species have been perceived by people in the U.S. and how the media has constructed that public perception. Focus topics include indigenous perspectives, whaling, habitat destruction and the Endangered Species Act.
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:
Kit: Media Constructions of the Environment: Endangered Species
30-60 Minutes, Over 60 Minutes
Decoding the Twenty: Andrew Jackson and Harriet Tubman
In this media literacy activity students analyze images related to the twenty dollar bill for messages about U.S. history and historical context.
15-30 Minutes
The Early Feminists and Haudenosaunee Women: The Origins of Women’s Rights in the U.S.
Students analyze and ask questions about a 1914 political cartoon and a 2020 documentary film clip for messages about the impact of Haudenosaunee women on the early women’s rights movement in the United States.
15-30 Minutes
Proclamation of 1763
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson about Native American and colonial perspectives on the Proclamation of 1763.
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:
Kit: Causes of the American Revolution
15-30 Minutes
Trails of Tears: Who's Telling the Stories and How?
Students analyze videos about the Cherokee trails of tears for messages about techniques, credibility and sourcing.
30-60 Minutes
African and Free – Maroon Resistance in the Americas
Students analyze videos produced by and about people of the African diaspora in the Americas for messages about representations of their peoples' freedom, resistance, and ties to Africa.
30-60 Minutes
BP Oil and Gulf Fisheries
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson about the impact of the BP oli spill on Gulf Coast fisheries by decoding headlines and video clips.
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: News Accuracy and CredibilityKit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Food, Water, and Agriculture
30-60 Minutes
Case Study: From Witness to Action
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson using four short film excerpts to teach about strategies activists have taken to remedy environmental injustice.
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
30-60 Minutes
Columbus “Discovers” America: What’s The Story?
Students analyze three illustrations for messages about Columbus and the Tainos, and reflect on changing perspectives on history.
15-30 Minutes
Confrontation in the Streets: What Do You know?
In this media literacy activity students analyze a viral video and a TV news program on the same event for messages about historical context and viral messages in social media.
15-30 Minutes
Creativity in Preserving Cultural Tradition
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson analyzing four short film excerpts about the roles of elders in preserving cultural traditions.
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:
Kit: Creativity & Aging Through the Lens of Film
30-60 Minutes
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.
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:
Kit: Media Constructions of the Environment: Resource Depletion
30-60 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
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
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
History of Resource Depletion
Media literacy and critical thinking unit using diverse media imagery to teach about how resource depletion has been perceived by people in the U.S. and how the media has constructed that public perception. Focus topics include water, forests, oil and consumption.
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:
Kit: Media Constructions of the Environment: Resource Depletion
30-60 Minutes, Over 60 Minutes
Human/Animal Relations
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson using four short film excerpts to reflect on messages about human and animal relations.
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:
Kit: Media Constructions of the Environment: Endangered Species
30-60 Minutes