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Happy Valentine’s Day: What’s the message? What’s the purpose?
This is a media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students analyze two TV commercials and a public service announcement for messages about Valentine's Day, storytelling and target audience.
Upper Elementary
Whole Class
15-30 Minutes
Happy Mother’s Day: Storytelling in Advertising
In this media literacy activity students analyze two long form TV ads for messages about storytelling structure and mother and child relationships.
Upper Elementary, Middle School
Whole Class
15-30 Minutes
Thanksgiving: Who’s Telling the Story?
In this media literacy activity students analyze short videos for messages about the meanings and impacts of the stories surrounding Thanksgiving.
Middle School, High School
Whole Class
30-60 Minutes
Squanto and the First Thanksgiving: Whose Story?
In this media literacy activity students analyze excerpts from children’s books for differing perspectives and messages about the history of Squanto’s role in the first thanksgiving feast.
Upper Elementary
Pair, Group - Small (3-5 Members), Whole Class
30-60 Minutes
Halloween Costumes: When Does Fun Turn Into Hurt?
Students analyze a commercial and video analysis for messages about cultural appropriation in Halloween costumes and how identity impacts responses to media.
Upper Elementary, Middle School, High School
Whole Class
15-30 Minutes
Marketing OxyContin: Profits, Lives and Disinformation
Media documents are excerpts from a company memo from Purdue Pharma, an investigative reporting video, an online article and two government reports related to the marketing of OxyContin. Students analyze messages about the role of industry in fueling the opioid epidemic and the credibility of the media documents.
High School, College
Individual, Group - Small (3-5 Members), Whole Class
30-60 Minutes
The Value of Water
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson about threats to and protection measures for water supplies and values related to stewardship of water resources explored by decoding book covers and tables of contents.
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Kit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Food, Water, and AgricultureMiddle School, High School, College
Whole Class
30-60 Minutes
The Value of Trees
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson reflecting on the free market's role in the 19th century lumber harvest by interpreting maps and comparing texts from John Muir and John J Audubon .
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Kit: Economics in U.S. History: A Media Literacy KitMiddle School, High School, College
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.
This resource is part of the following contextual materials. Resources can be explored on their own but are most useful for teachers when downloaded as part of their parent content. Click on the links below to see this Resource in context:
Unit: Introducing the Middle EastKit: Media Constructions of the Middle East
Middle School, High School, College
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, College
Whole Class
Under 15 Minutes