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Confronting Personal Challenges - Bethany Hamilton in Film

Students analyze trailers from documentary and feature films for messages about film genres and techniques, about interpretation of media messages and about how people persevere through personal challenges.

Grade Level: Upper Elementary, Middle School
Subject: Health, Psychology, Film/Video Arts, Sociology, Library/Information Literacy, Physical Education

College or a Trade: Which is the Right Choice?

Students analyze two posters for messages about the potential benefits and challenges of college or trade career choices.

Grade Level: Middle School, High School, College
Subject: Commercial Arts/Advertising, Sociology, Career/Vocational Education

Cinematic Stereotyping - Elementary School Teachers in the Movies

Students analyze a Google search and clips from feature films for messages about stereotypes of teachers, about the impact of film representations of teaching and about the pedagogical process of question-based, student-centered constructivist media decoding.

Grade Level: College
Subject: Visual Arts, Film/Video Arts, Sociology, ELA/English Language Arts, Pre-service Teacher Education

Recent Blog Posts

Pride and Protest

With June designated as LGBTQ Pride Month, the analysis of media messages about gender and sexual identities is particularly relevant – including lessons in the unit on Gay Liberation in the curriculum kit, "Media Constructions of Social Justice."

It’s Different This Time

In a deeply personal blog post, Project Look Sharp’s Executive Director reflects on the roles that media have played in bringing us face-to-face with racial violence and police brutality, and how her own lived experience as a media literacy educator in a family of color have made a difference.

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