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2008 Political Satire or Libel?
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson decoding a New Yorker magazine cover depicting Barack and Michele Obama as radicals for messages about fear, stereotyping and satire.
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Unit: 2000-2008 Targeting the SpinKit: Media Constructions of Presidential Campaigns
High School
Individual, Whole Class
Over 60 Minutes
Google Image Searches – Do They Promote or Counter Stereotypes?
In this media literacy activity students analyze image search screen shots for messages about how gender stereotypes are promoted or countered in Google searches.
Middle School, High School
Whole Class
Under 15 Minutes
National Geographic’s Africa
This is a media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students analyze title pages from articles about Africa in National Geographic magazine from the 1990s for messages about stereotyping.
Middle School, High School
Whole Class
15-30 Minutes
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Stereotyping Arabs and Muslims
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson analyzing stereotypes and counter-sterteotypes of Arabs and Muslims in four brief clips from popular media sources.
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Unit: Militant Muslims and the U.S.Kit: Media Constructions of the Middle East
High School
Whole Class
30-60 Minutes
The War in Editorial Cartoons
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson analyzing issues related to the Iraq War by identifying messages and stereotypes in editorial cartoons.
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Unit: War in Iraq: Whose Voice, Whose Story?Kit: Media Constructions of the Middle East
High School
Whole Class
30-60 Minutes
Picturing the Middle East
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson introducing the concept of stereotypes by asking students to decide whether photos are from the Middle East.
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Unit: Introducing the Middle EastKit: Media Constructions of the Middle East
Middle School, High School
Whole Class
30-60 Minutes, Over 60 Minutes
Unearthing Stereotypes
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson introducing the concept of stereotypes by asking students to decide whether photos are from Africa
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Playlist: Elementary Critical Thinking Skill BuildingPlaylist: Global Studies
Kit: Introducing Africa: Critical Thinking and Media Literacy
Upper Elementary
Whole Class
30-60 Minutes, Over 60 Minutes
Real Bugs TV Commercial Decoding
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson reflecting on stereotyping by analyzing a TV comercial.
Upper Elementary, Middle School, High School
Whole Class
Under 15 Minutes
Nombres: Creative Naming to Sell Ideas and Products
In this media literacy activity students analyze television commercials and products targeted at the Hispanic community for messages about diverse media forms, consumerism and cultural identity.
Middle School, High School, College
Whole Class
15-30 Minutes
1900 Bryan "The Issue-1900" Poster
Media literacy and critical thinking activity analyzing an 1900 campaign poster for William Jennings Bryan for messages about foreign policy, labor and economics.
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Unit: 1896 - 1908 The Modern CampaignKit: Media Constructions of Presidential Campaigns
High School
Whole Class
15-30 Minutes