Curated OER
Testing Weather Proverbs
Students study weather proverbs. In this weather lesson, students list weather proverbs and complete the worksheet to test the proverb. Students design an experiment to test the weather proverbs and conduct the experiments.
Curated OER
Inventing and Presenting Unit 3: Persuasive Speaking and Invention Promotion
Middle schoolers write a proposal for a speech. Students prepare appropriate visuals for use in the proposed speech. Middle schoolers produce one or more graphs that summarize the results from the experimentation. Students deliver an...
Curated OER
Breaking Barriers with Melba Pattillo
Young scholars are introduced to individuals who made the civil rights movement a success. They examine, analyze and interpret the events and people who had a significant and stirring impact on the course of history through stories,...
Curated OER
Inventing and Presenting Unit 2: Effective Speeches and Building the Invention
Young scholars identify the characteristics of effective speeches. Students find elements of good speeches in the text and in the delivery of model speeches. Young scholars build a working three-dimensional model of an invention or an...
Curated OER
Before You Were Mine
Students discuss animal adoption and pet care. In this pet lesson plan, students listen to the story Before You Were Mine by Maribeth Boelts. They discuss animals body language, feelings, and how to best car for them.
Curated OER
Voyages: Wild Weather
Students examine the causes of extreme weather. In this weather instructional activity, students read Voyages: Wild Weather by Caroline Harris. Students conduct further research by accessing selected websites.
Curated OER
Inventing and Presenting Unit 1: Analyzing Nonfiction and Inventing Solutions
Middle schoolers read about and identify patterns in the invention process. Students discuss and write about information learned from research. Middle schoolers compile a list of problems, choose one, write a problem statement, and...
Curated OER
Choosing the Best Hits
Students practice quickly scanning the results of an internet search to determine which might provide the best information. They choose key words or phrases to type into the search engine and read the descriptions of each hit.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Critical Media Literacy: Commercial Advertising
For this lesson, young scholars 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.
Media Smarts
Media Smarts: Looking at Food Advertising Lesson
MediaSmarts provides digital and media literacy lessons for learners. In this lesson, young students will learn about the importance of spokescharacters for companies. Then learners will create own jingles and spokescharacters for foods...
Other
Media Education Lab: Assignment: Media Literacy: Secondary School
A well-done set of units that helps teachers teach the importance of media literacy to their students. Click on Secondary School Introduction to see a video of teachers in the classroom instructing students in ways of using and...
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: Social Media and Digital Footprints: Our Responsibilities
Social media can be a place to connect, learn, and, most of all, share. But how much do kids know about what they're sharing - and not just about themselves but each other? Help students think critically about their digital footprints on...
Media Smarts
Media Smarts:teaching Tv: Critically Evaluating Tv Lesson
MediaSmarts provides digital and media literacy lessons for learners. In this lesson, students will learn to watch and listen to a television with a critical lense
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Why Is Fake News So Effective?
This lesson frames the controversial issues of fake news and trust in the media with the historical context of yellow journalism and sensationalist reporting. Learners learn strategies for improving their media literacy and will be able...
New York Times
New York Times: Evaluating Sources in a 'Post Truth' World: Fake News
[Free Registration/Login Required] Need help determining fake news from real news? This seems to be a problem today. Find practical activities and questions to help navigate a media landscape in which it is increasingly difficult to tell...
Media Smarts
Media Smarts: Can You Spot the Ad?
MediaSmarts provides digital and media literacy lessons for students. For this lesson, young students will learn how to differentiate "branded" and brands" in content. Students will also learn learn strategies and goals of advertisers.
Media Smarts
Media Smarts: Teaching Tv: Enjoying Television Lesson
MediaSmarts provides digital and media literacy lessons for young scholars. In this lesson, young students will become reflect about television programs they enjoy and analyze why they enjoy them.
Other
Media Literacy Clearinghouse: Critically Viewing Photographs: Civil War
Was it possible to manipulate photographs during the Civil War? Teach your students about critical viewing through this innovative lesson and engage them in discussion, analysis and research to explain their findings.
Media Smarts
Media Awareness Network: Lesson Plan: How to Analyze the News [Pdf]
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.
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: Lesson: Who Is in Your Online Community?
[Free Registration/Login Required] By learning the Rings of Responsibility, 2nd graders explore how the Internet connects us to people in our community and throughout the world. Help students to think critically about the different ways...
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: Lesson: Digital Trails
[Free Registration/Login Required] Does what you do online always stay online? Students learn that the information they share online leaves a digital footprint or "trail." Depending on how they manage it, this trail can be big or small,...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Walt Whitman: Journalist and Poet
Through an examination of primary sources and watching a short video, learners will learn about Whitman's love for and criticism of the United States.
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: The Reality of Digital Drama (6 8)
Students discuss their impressions of peer drama, both online and as depicted on reality TV. Students compare and contrast two videos - one featuring a candid discussion between middle school students about online drama and the other...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Junk Mail: Negotiating Critical Literacy at the Mailbox
Contains plans for three lessons that teach students to examine junk mail critically. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment and reflection...