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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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Media Smarts: Adversmarts: Introduction to Food Advertising Online

For Students K - 1st

Media Smarts provides digital and media literacy lessons for learners. For this lesson, young students will learn about online advertisements targeted to children. Learners will play on online game; they will create an advertisement for...

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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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Media Smarts: Can You Spot the Ad?

For Students K - 1st

MediaSmarts provides digital and media literacy lessons for students. In this activity, 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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Media Smarts: Looking at Food Advertising Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards

MediaSmarts provides digital and media literacy lessons for students. In this lesson, young students will learn about the importance of spokescharacters for companies. Then students will create own jingles and spokescharacters for foods...

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Media Smarts: Teaching Tv: Enjoying Television Lesson

For Students 1st - 6th

MediaSmarts provides digital and media literacy lessons for students. In this lesson plan, young students will become reflect about television programs they enjoy and analyze why they enjoy them.

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Media Smarts: How to Recognize False Content Online: The New 5 Ws [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

A tip sheet to help both students and adults learn how to test online content for validity.

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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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Media Smarts: Lesson: Internet Time Capsule [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st

In this lesson plan, students learn about the concept of "time capsules" and then apply the idea by selecting time capsule contents to represent both the time they live in and their own lives and tastes. They then extend this idea to...

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Media Smarts: Lesson: Representing Ourselves Online

For Teachers K - 1st

In this lesson plan, young scholars talk about dressing up and taking on identities that are similar to or different from them. They are then introduced to the idea of avatars as a kind of "dressing up" inside video games and consider...

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Media Smarts: Stay on the Path Lesson One: Searching for Treasure

For Teachers 5th - 8th

This four-lesson unit on search skills and critical thinking teaches students how to target and specify their online searches to avoid unwanted results, how to judge whether a link, search result, or website is legitimate or phony and...

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Media Smarts: Promoting Ethical Behaviour Online: My Virtual Life Lesson

For Students 7th - 9th

In this instructional activity, students learn about ways to manage their privacy and reputation online by exploring their digital presence and to make good choices about sharing other people's content online. Students explore how they...

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Media Awareness Network: Privacy Pirates

For Students K - 1st

Sail away on the open seas in order to protect your online privacy from the privacy pirates. This animated game helps students become responsible digital citizens as they learn how to keep their personal information secure.

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Media Smarts: Your Connected Life: A Teen's Guide to Life Online [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th

This guide is designed to help students who are just entering high school balance the demands their offline life with their digital one. The guide offers practical advice on a variety of activities kids like to do online, including...

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Media Awareness Network: What's in a Word? Lesson Plan

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards

Help 5th through 7th graders explore the power of words and their capacity to influence our thinking with this lesson from the Media Awareness Network. An easy-to-print .pdf version is linked from the top of the page.

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The Media Awareness Network: Bias

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards

Slant, or bias, can be found in virtually every news outlet. Use this online lesson plan to help students understand how word choices and other factors can intentionally or unintentionally affect the audience's understanding.

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Media Smarts: Teaching Tv: Television as a Story Teller Lesson

For Teachers K - 1st

This lesson plan will help young students explore how television can be used to tell stories.

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Media Awareness Network: Hoax? Scholarly Research? Opinion?

For Teachers 10th - 12th

When researching on the Internet, how critical of an observer are you? This site provides three group exercises to help you determine if a website is a hoax, scholarly research, or personal opinion.

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