Skip to main content

Check Out Our Newest Lessons

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: Film/Video Arts, Sociology, ELA/English Language Arts

Cinematic Stereotyping - Librarians in the Movies

Students analyze a Google search and film clips for messages about libraries and librarians and about purpose and effects of media messages.

Grade Level: College
Subject: Visual Arts, Film/Video Arts, Sociology, Library/Information Literacy, Pre-service Teacher Education

Librarians in the Movies - Media Messages and Effects

Students analyze film clips for messages about libraries and librarians and about purpose and effects of media messages.

Grade Level: Lower Elementary, Upper Elementary
Subject: Film/Video Arts, Library/Information Literacy, 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.

Past Blogs