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Lesson Plan
Media Smarts

Media Awareness Network: Lesson Plan: How to Analyze the News [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Lesson plan focusing on the importance of understanding how the news is a product with a specific scope, structure, slant and style at the forefront of its production.
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Lesson Plan
Other

Media Literacy Clearinghouse: Critically Viewing Photographs: Civil War

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Was it possible to manipulate photographs during the Civil War? Teach your learners about critical viewing through this innovative lesson and engage them in discussion, analysis and research to explain their findings.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Critical Media Literacy: Commercial Advertising

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this lesson, learners will examine mass media critically and become aware of how much advertising is around them. They will realize the impact media has on social equality, what people buy, and on culture.
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Activity
Other

Media Education Foundation: Deconstructing a Video Advertisement [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Handout that leads students through an exploration of the visual and audio elements of a video advertisement as well as the effect these elements have on the intended audience and the community as a whole.