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Natural Gas: Water & Climate Impacts

Media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students decode an advertisement and a web page for messages about how natural gas extraction impacts fresh water resources.

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Middle School

15-30 Minutes

Informational Text, Photograph, Webpage
Subject Areas
Health, Visual Arts, Commercial Arts/Advertising, Consumer Education, Physical Sciences, Environmental Studies, Economics, Sociology, ELA/English Language Arts

Recycling: What’s the Problem?

Students analyze a commercial and clips from documentaries for messages about recycling, its attraction to consumers and industry and its limitations.

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Middle School, High School, College

30-60 Minutes

Documentary Film, Television Program, Web Video
Subject Areas
Commercial Arts/Advertising, Consumer Education, Environmental Studies, Economics, Sociology, ELA/English Language Arts

Reforestation: Carbon Sequestration

This is a media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students analyze two short excerpts from the documentary films "Green Gold" and "The Salt of the Earth" for different representations of reforestation as a means to sequester carbon and restore degraded ecosystems.

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High School, College

30-60 Minutes

Documentary Film
Subject Areas
Film/Video Arts, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Environmental Studies, Global Studies

Refrigeration Management: A Global Solution to Reverse Global Warming

This is a media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students decode three videos for the impact of refrigeration gases on climate change.

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High School, College

30-60 Minutes

Web Video
Subject Areas
Film/Video Arts, Consumer Education, Physical Sciences, Environmental Studies, Economics

Rising Sea Refugees

This is a media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students analyze short excerpts from two documentary films for different representations on the impacts of rising seas on human populations.

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High School, College

30-60 Minutes

Documentary Film
Subject Areas
Film/Video Arts, Physical Sciences, Environmental Studies, Global Studies, Sociology

Scientific Consensus: Global Warming Is Real and It's Caused by Us

This is a media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students analyze two web articles from Skeptical Science and NASA for different approaches to reporting on the scientific consensus on human-induced climate change.

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High School, College

30-60 Minutes

Webpage
Subject Areas
Physical Sciences, Environmental Studies, Sociology, General Media Literacy, Library/Information Literacy

Sea Level Rise: Climate Change Impacts

Media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students decode videos for messages about conflicting data on the contribution of polar melting to sea level rise.

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Middle School

15-30 Minutes

Web Video
Subject Areas
Film/Video Arts, Physical Sciences, Environmental Studies, ELA/English Language Arts

Teaching About Climate Change: Why Does the Source Matter?

This is a media literacy activity in which students analyze two letters for the National Science Teachers Association and the Heartland Institute for conflicting perspectives about how to teach about global climate change.

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Middle School, High School, College

15-30 Minutes

Informational Text
Subject Areas
Physical Sciences, Environmental Studies, Sociology, Pre-service Teacher Education

The Consequences of Global Warming

Media literacy and critical thinking lesson analyzing news articles about the impact of global warming on hurricanes, diseases, agriculture, sea level rise, severe weather, freshwater and biodiversity.

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High School, College

Over 60 Minutes

Chart/graph, Informational Text, Map, News - Print
Subject Areas
Health, Journalism, Life Sciences, Environmental Studies, ELA/English Language Arts

The Precautionary Principle

Media literacy and critical thinking lesson analyzing potential costs and consequences of different responses to climate change by comparing brief text selections from four authors.

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High School, College

Over 60 Minutes

Editorial Opinion, Informational Text, News - Print, Speech
Subject Areas
Journalism, Life Sciences, Environmental Studies, ELA/English Language Arts

The Public Trust - Doctrine Government's Role in Protecting Natural Resources for the Future

This is a media literacy activity in which students analyze two video clips for different techniques in portraying messages about young people who are suing the government to demand that it protect future generations from the impacts of global climate change.

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Middle School, High School, College

30-60 Minutes

Documentary Film, Web Video
Subject Areas
Health, Physical Sciences, Environmental Studies, US History And Government, US History, Civics And Government, Sociology

The Urgency of Climate Action

This is a media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students analyze videos by Desmond Tutu and Al Gore for conflicting perspectives on the urgent need to take action to respond to climate change.

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High School, College

30-60 Minutes

Web Video, Documentary Film, Web Video, Documentary Film
Subject Areas
Film/Video Arts, Physical Sciences, Environmental Studies, US History And Government, US History, Civics And Government, Global Studies, Sociology

Transition to Renewable Energy Now

This is a media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students analyze two short excerpts from a documentary film for the impacts of solar energy technologies on urban China and rural Zambia.

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High School, College

30-60 Minutes

Documentary Film
Subject Areas
Film/Video Arts, Music, Physical Sciences, Environmental Studies, Global Studies, Economics, ELA/English Language Arts

Transitioning to a Sustainable Future

Media literacy and critical thinking lesson in which students will analyze models for sustainability through the lenses of social justice, climate change, fossil fuel depletion and economic systems and thereafter define and articulate their views on transitioning to a sustainable future.

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High School, College

Over 60 Minutes

Illustration, Informational Text, Poster, Webpage
Subject Areas
Health, Student Media Production, Visual Arts, Commercial Arts/Advertising, Consumer Education, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Environmental Studies, Economics, Sociology, ELA/English Language Arts

Watersheds: Stewardship & Climate Change

Media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students decode web pages messages about which strategies might be most useful to deal with climate change impacts on human communities.

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Middle School

15-30 Minutes

Illustration, Map, Webpage
Subject Areas
Physical Sciences, Environmental Studies, ELA/English Language Arts

What Is Causing Global Warming?

Media literacy and critical thinking lesson analyzing conflicting perspectives on the causes for global warming by decoding short excerpts from two films, The Great Global Warming Swindle and An Inconvenient Truth.

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High School, College

Over 60 Minutes

Animated Film, Chart/graph, Documentary Film, Informational Text, Television Commercial
Subject Areas
Film/Video Arts, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Environmental Studies

What is the Role of the Federal Government in Protecting the Environment?

This is a media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students analyze three short news reports for conflicting messages about the appointment of Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency.

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Middle School, High School, College

15-30 Minutes

News - Print, Television Program, Web Video
Subject Areas
Environmental Studies, US History And Government, US History, Civics And Government

What’s in My Lunchbox?

In this media literacy activity students analyze a book cover, a lunchbox, a YouTube screen grab and a webpage for messages about eating fruits and vegetables.

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Lower Elementary

15-30 Minutes

Illustration, Webpage
Subject Areas
Health, Commercial Arts/Advertising, Nutrition, Consumer Education, Economics, Library/Information Literacy

Where Does My Food Come From?

Media literacy and critical thinking lesson analyzing videos to discern messages about the production and transportation of food.

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Upper Elementary

Over 60 Minutes

Animated Film, Documentary Film
Subject Areas
Health, Film/Video Arts, Commercial Arts/Advertising, Consumer Education, Environmental Studies, Economics, ELA/English Language Arts

Wind Farm Site Selection: A Community Debates the Issues

This is a media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students analyze two op-eds for perspectives on siting local wind farms.

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Middle School, High School, College

15-30 Minutes

Editorial Opinion, Informational Text, News - Print
Subject Areas
Physical Sciences, Environmental Studies, US History And Government, US History, Civics And Government, Economics, Sociology