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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

Illustration
Subject Areas
Health, Visual Arts, Commercial Arts/Advertising, Consumer Education, Environmental Studies, Civics And Government, Global Studies, Library/Information Literacy, ELA/English Language Arts

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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Middle School

15-30 Minutes

Editorial Cartoon, Informational Text, Webpage
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

Web Video, Documentary Film, Documentary Film, Television Program
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

Photograph
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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Lower Elementary

Over 60 Minutes

Television Commercial, Webpage
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

Web Video
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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High School, College

Over 60 Minutes

Informational Text
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

Web Video, Documentary Film, Television Commercial, Web Video
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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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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Lower Elementary

15-30 Minutes, 30-60 Minutes

Television Commercial
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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High School, College

30-60 Minutes, Over 60 Minutes

Documentary Film, Informational Text, Television Program, Web Video
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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Middle School, High School, College

30-60 Minutes

Editorial Opinion
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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Middle School, High School, College

Over 60 Minutes

Animated Film, Television Commercial, Web Video
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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High School, College

Over 60 Minutes

Feature Film, Literature, Music/song, Television Program, Music/song
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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Upper Elementary

30-60 Minutes

Poster
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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Middle School

15-30 Minutes

Chart/graph, Informational Text, Webpage
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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Middle School

15-30 Minutes

Illustration, Informational Text, Map, Webpage
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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Middle School

15-30 Minutes

Television Program, Web Video
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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Middle School

15-30 Minutes

Chart/graph, Informational Text, News - Print, Webpage
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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Middle School, High School, College

30-60 Minutes

Documentary Film, Television Program, Web Video
Subject Areas
Health, Film/Video Arts, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Environmental Studies, Economics, Sociology, ELA/English Language Arts