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UN Sustainable Development Goals and Graphics
Students analyze icons for messages about graphic design and the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
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Upper Elementary, Middle School
30-60 Minutes
Subject Areas
Poverty: Climate Change & Water Security
Media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students decode web pages for messages about the conditions that make people living in poverty extremely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.
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Playlist: Economics & Social JusticeUnit: Climate Change & Water
Kit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Middle School
Middle School
15-30 Minutes
Subject Areas
Health, Visual Arts, Life Sciences, Environmental Studies, Global Studies, Economics, Sociology, ELA/English Language Arts
Asian American and Pacific Islander History and Culture: Representation and Authorship
Students analyze short videos for messages about Asian American and Pacific Islander histories and cultures and their representation.
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Middle School, High School, College
30-60 Minutes
Subject Areas
Film/Video Arts, US History, Civics And Government, Global Studies, Sociology, Library/Information Literacy, ELA/English Language Arts
Migrant Mother: Photos as Fact or Opinion
Students analyze Dorothea Lange’s “Migrant Mother” photograph and reflect on the constructed nature of photographs by evaluating whether photographs are fact, opinion, or something else.
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Upper Elementary, Middle School, High School, College
15-30 Minutes
Subject Areas
Visual Arts, US History, Civics And Government, Sociology, General Media Literacy, Library/Information Literacy, ELA/English Language Arts
Advertiser's Power of Persuasion - Water
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson analyzing print advertisements and public service messages about bottled water and vitamin water and writing scripts for ads or public service announcements promoting their water consumption design for a healthy body, budget and earth.
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Playlist: Elementary Critical Thinking Skill BuildingUnit: Water (lower elementary)
Kit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Lower Elementary
Lower Elementary
Over 60 Minutes
Subject Areas
Health, Student Media Production, Film/Video Arts, Commercial Arts/Advertising, Consumer Education, ELA/English Language Arts
Agriculture: Sustainable v. Industrial
This is a media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students decode two web videos for messages about industrial and sustainable agriculture.
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Middle School, High School, College
30-60 Minutes
Subject Areas
Health, Film/Video Arts, Commercial Arts/Advertising, Consumer Education, Life Sciences, Environmental Studies, Economics
Bioregional Economy
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson in which students will complete and present a multimedia research project on just and sustainable economic development projects in their bioregion.
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Kit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: FingerlakesHigh School, College
Over 60 Minutes
Subject Areas
Student Media Production, Consumer Education, Environmental Studies, Economics, Sociology
Bottled Water?
This media literacy activity was created to integrate the teaching of English language instruction with media literacy for educators in Panama. In this media literacy activity students watch short video clips with English narration and text to analyze authorship, purpose and target audience and to discuss environmental issues related to bottled water.
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Middle School, High School
15-30 Minutes
Subject Areas
Film/Video Arts, Commercial Arts/Advertising, Consumer Education, Environmental Studies, Economics, Sociology, English Language Instruction, General Media Literacy, Library/Information Literacy
Case Study: From Witness to Action
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson using four short film excerpts to teach about strategies activists have taken to remedy environmental injustice.
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Unit: Environmental JusticeKit: Media Constructions of Social Justice
Middle School, High School, College
30-60 Minutes
Subject Areas
Health, Film/Video Arts, Journalism, Environmental Studies, US History And Government, US History, Civics And Government, Sociology
Cereal Commercials
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson introducing the concept of a "complete breakfast," identifying packaging clues about sugar in cereal and recognizing tricks in the construction of breakfast cereal commercials.
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Unit: Kindergarten LessonsKit: Critical Thinking & Health: Nutrition and TV Commercials
Lower Elementary
15-30 Minutes, 30-60 Minutes
Subject Areas
Health, Commercial Arts/Advertising, Nutrition, Consumer Education
Climate Change, Agriculture & Sustainability
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson reflecting on the impacts of climate change on agriculture and the role of agricultural practices in contributing to climate change.
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Playlist: Climate ChangeKit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Fingerlakes
High School, College
30-60 Minutes, Over 60 Minutes
Subject Areas
Student Media Production, Film/Video Arts, Journalism, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Environmental Studies, Economics, Sociology, ELA/English Language Arts
Cochabamba, Water for Sale
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson using four short informational writing excerpts to reflect on the pros and cons of water privatization in Bolivia.
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Playlist: News Accuracy and CredibilityPlaylist: Global Studies
Kit: Media Constructions of the Environment: Resource Depletion
Middle School, High School, College
30-60 Minutes
Subject Areas
Health, Journalism, Physical Sciences, Environmental Studies, Global Studies, Economics, Sociology, ELA/English Language Arts
Consumerism & Sustainability
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson asking students to consider their own consumer decisions relating to sustainability through a process of decoding TV commercials and videos about bottled water.
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Kit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Food, Water, and AgricultureMiddle School, High School, College
Over 60 Minutes
Subject Areas
Health, Film/Video Arts, Commercial Arts/Advertising, Nutrition, Consumer Education, Environmental Studies, Economics, Sociology
Creative Visions of the Future
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson analyzing the imagined future of food, water and agriculture as viewed through the creative media of film, song, poetry and science fiction literature.
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Kit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Food, Water, and AgricultureHigh School, College
Over 60 Minutes
Subject Areas
Film/Video Arts, Music, Life Sciences, Environmental Studies, US History And Government, US History, Civics And Government, Sociology, ELA/English Language Arts
Deciding On Our Food Choices Assessment
Media literacy and critical thinking assessment analyzing messages in posters and writing about food choice messages and persuasion techniques in posters.
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Unit: Food ChoicesKit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Upper Elementary
Upper Elementary
30-60 Minutes
Subject Areas
Health, Psychology, Visual Arts, Commercial Arts/Advertising, Nutrition, Consumer Education, Environmental Studies, Sociology, ELA/English Language Arts
Drought & Farming: Thirsty Crops
Media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students decode web pages and graphs for messages about how agricultural demands for irrigation impact freshwater resources during times of drought.
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Playlist: Climate ChangeUnit: Climate Change & Water
Kit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Middle School
Middle School
15-30 Minutes
Subject Areas
Math, Consumer Education, Physical Sciences, Environmental Studies, Economics, ELA/English Language Arts
Drought Causes: Climate Change Impacts
Media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students decode web pages messages about the relationship between climate change and droughts.
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Unit: Climate Change & WaterKit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Middle School
Middle School
15-30 Minutes
Subject Areas
Health, Visual Arts, Physical Sciences, Environmental Studies, ELA/English Language Arts
El Nino: Connections to Global Warming
Media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students decode videos for messages about patterns of ocean warming during an El Nino year and the subsequent impacts on worldwide weather.
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Unit: Climate Change & WaterKit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Middle School
Middle School
15-30 Minutes
Subject Areas
Film/Video Arts, Journalism, Physical Sciences, Environmental Studies, Global Studies, ELA/English Language Arts
Extreme Weather: Climate Change Connections & Water
Media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students decode webpages for messages about the relationship between climate change and extreme weather.
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Unit: Climate Change & WaterKit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Middle School
Middle School
15-30 Minutes
Subject Areas
Health, Visual Arts, Journalism, Physical Sciences, Environmental Studies, ELA/English Language Arts
Exxon Valdez, Oil and Water
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson using four short film excerpts to reflect on the impacts of the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
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Kit: Media Constructions of the Environment: Resource DepletionMiddle School, High School, College
30-60 Minutes
Subject Areas
Health, Film/Video Arts, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Environmental Studies, Economics, Sociology, ELA/English Language Arts