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Interactive
Media Smarts

Media Awareness Network: Allies and Aliens: A Mission in Critical Thinking

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive module for Grades 7 and 8 is designed to increase students' ability to recognize bias, prejudice, and hate propaganda on the Internet and in other media. Includes an extensive teacher's guide.
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Professional Doc
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Workshops: Teaching Reading 3 5

For Students 3rd - 5th
This instructional workshop provides eight sessions on teaching reading in intermediate classrooms: "Creating Contexts for Learning," "Fluency and Word Study," "Building Comprehension," "Writing," "New Literacies of the Internet,"...
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Frontline: The Persuaders

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The meaning of brand, the world of today's advertisers, and the concept of neuromarketing are some of the topics of this PBS Frontline program. You can watch the whole program, join the discussion, read about the shaping of new brands,...
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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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Website
Sophia Learning

Sophia: 5 Core Concepts of Media Literacy

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students will engage in multiple parts of a lesson that guide students to uncover many levels of meaning in media messages. Discussion questions and a slideshow presentation are parts of the lesson that address the...
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Handout
Other

Association for Educational Communications & Technology: Learning From Tv

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Research regarding what is internalized and learned from television and the responsibility parents and educators have helping students to decipher between reality and fabrication. Media literacy, or how a viewer perceives what they are...
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Interactive
Education Development Center

Education Development Center, Inc.: Tv411: Reading the Fine Print

For Students 6th - 8th
An interactive three-part lesson on how fine print is used in advertising. In part one students read three advertisements and determine which details from the ads are important and which are not. In part two students read six...
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Website
PBS

Kqed: Quest: Education: Media Making Toolkit [For the Science Classroom]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A comprehensive guide to integrating media-making into a science classroom provides an engaging way for students to demonstrate knowledge and build 21st-century learning skills. Supplies tools for teachers to make science-based media,...
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Activity
Federal Trade Commission

Federal Trade Commission: You Are Here

For Students 5th - 8th
In this interactive mall environment, students learn how to make smart decisions as consumers. Whether shopping for clothes, choosing the best food deal, searching for a job or buying a cellphone, students will learn how to recognize...
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Lesson Plan
Media Smarts

Media Smarts: Adversmarts: Introduction to Food Advertising Online

For Students K - 1st
Media Smarts provides digital and media literacy lessons for young scholars. In this instructional activity, young students will learn about online advertisements targeted to children. Young scholars will play on online game; they will...
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Lesson Plan
Media Smarts

Media Smarts:teaching Tv: Critically Evaluating Tv Lesson

For Students 1st - 6th Standards
MediaSmarts provides digital and media literacy lessons for students. In this lesson, students will learn to watch and listen to a television with a critical lense
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Lesson Plan
Media Smarts

Media Smarts: Can You Spot the Ad?

For Students K - 1st
MediaSmarts provides digital and media literacy lessons for students. In this lesson, young students will learn how to differentiate "branded" and brands" in content. Students will also learn learn strategies and goals of advertisers.
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Lesson Plan
Media Smarts

Media Smarts: Looking at Food Advertising Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
MediaSmarts provides digital and media literacy lessons for students. In this instructional activity, young students will learn about the importance of spokescharacters for companies. Then students will create own jingles and...
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Lesson Plan
Media Smarts

Media Smarts: Teaching Tv: Enjoying Television Lesson

For Students 1st - 6th
MediaSmarts provides digital and media literacy lessons for students. In this lesson, young students will become reflect about television programs they enjoy and analyze why they enjoy them.
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Handout
United Nations

Unesco: Information and Communication Technologies in Schools

For Students 9th - 10th
This UNESCO handbook for teachers delves into information and communication technologies in schools. Scroll down through the pdf document to pages 5 through 8 for a list of specific topics included in this extensive resource.
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Article
NPR: National Public Radio

Npr: Five Ways Teachers Are Fighting Fake News

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Since a recent Stanford study showed that students at practically all grade levels can't determine fake news from the real stuff, the push to teach media literacy has gained new momentum. This article gives five quality examples of...
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Unit Plan
iCivics

I Civics: News Literacy

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Use this library of mini-lessons to teach students to recognize high-standards journalism so they can make informed judgments about the information coming at them and to help them identify and deal with misinformation, bias, opinion, and...
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Article
Edutopia

Edutopia: Why Media Literacy Is Not Just for Kids

For Students K - 1st Standards
Do you know the difference between social media skills and overal media literacy? Learn why these skills are not just valuable to students, but to teachers and parents as well.
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Website
Media Smarts

Digital Media Literacy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
MediaSmarts will answer your questions regarding media literacy and why it is important to teach media literacy. Approaches to media literacy, key media literacy concepts, and evaluations and assessments pertaining to media literacy can...
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Activity
Other

Pacific Media Watch

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is produced by an independent, non-profit, non-government organization comprising journalists, lawyers, editors and other media workers, dedicated to examining issues of ethics, accountability, censorship, media freedom and...
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: News and Media Literacy

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This collection, which includes videos, blog articles, student handouts, lesson plans, and tip sheets for families, helps students identify, analyze, and investigate the news and information they get from online sources. Media literacy...
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: News and Media Literacy Collection

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This collection, which includes videos, blog articles, student handouts, lesson plans, and tip sheets for families, helps students identify, analyze, and investigate the news and information they get from online sources. Media literacy...
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Lesson Plan
ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Self Portrait Collage [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
For this lesson, students look at how non-human images can be used in a self-portrait to portray aspects of a personality.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Sports Screeners

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Examine how physical activity and sports are depicted in movies and on television. Hypothesize how images of physical activity and sports depictions in entertainment can influence young people's attitudes and behaviors.