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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Democracy in America: Understanding Media: The Inside Story

For Students 9th - 10th
This unit highlights the integral role that the media plays in American politics to communicate between the leaders and the public. Offers video, readings, web resources, and activities.
Lesson Plan
Media Smarts

Media Awareness Network

For Students 9th - 10th
The Media Awareness Network (MNet) "promotes media and Internet education by producing online programs and resources". MNet provide resources pertaining to blog & news, media issues, research, educational games, and special initiatives.
Website
Education Development Center

Digital Media Arts: Introduction to Visual Arts and Digital Media

For Students 9th - 10th
Digital media curriculum for teaching high school students how to communicate through media. Students learn the fundamentals of art and design and the technical skills to prepare them for careers in the arts, media, and entertainment...
Interactive
Media Smarts

Media Awareness Network: Allies and Aliens: A Mission in Critical Thinking

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive module for Grades 7 and 8 is designed to increase students' ability to recognize bias, prejudice, and hate propaganda on the Internet and in other media. Includes an extensive teacher's guide.
eBook
Other

Ideas to Images: Sight Sound Motion: Applied Media Aesthetics, 7th Edition [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Chapter 1 of the seventh edition of "Sight Sound Motion" by Herbert Zettl. It includes the table of contents, author information, the preface, and a brief prologue. The topic of this chapter is Applied Media Aesthetics. He talks about...
Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Write Now! Career Writing Prompts: Communications Manager

For Students 9th - 10th
This Career Clip features, Gene Nichols, Communications Manager at Good Shepherd. He is responsible for dealing with the media, especially newspapers and television programs. His best advice is to develop multiple skills and never...
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Expanding Narratives Using Media: A Digital Notebook

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The resources, tips, and professional development opportunities shared throughout this digital notebook are rooted in skills supporting critical media literacy. Media literacy education emphasizes skills of inquiry and expression and...
Professional Doc
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Expanding Narratives Using Media: A Planning Kit: Collection

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This planning kit has resources, tips, and professional development opportunities rooted in skills supporting critical media literacy. Media literacy education emphasizes skills of inquiry and expression and empowers students to think...
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Jack & the Giants: Jack Spends His Pay

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, students will create and solve word problems involving money (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of decimals), and develop a script for a short scene and perform it using the elements of performance....
Lesson Plan
New York Times

New York Times: Evaluating Sources in a 'Post Truth' World: Fake News

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Need help determining fake news from real news? This seems to be a problem today. Find practical activities and questions to help navigate a media landscape in which it is increasingly difficult to tell...
Website
Other

Nabj: National Association of Black Journalists

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
From the largest media organization for people of color, this imaginative site is graphically clever with content to support it. Interesting reading for all journalists, as well as a great teaching tool for anyone interested in effective...
Activity
University of Texas at Austin

Francais Interactif Communication and Media

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive site focuses on communications and media and features extensive vocabulary lists, interviews with video, pertinent grammar points and other tools for understanding French culture.
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: Hedy Lamarr: Securing Wireless Communications Through Frequency Changes

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover Hedy Lamarr's contributions as a woman in STEM in this two video media gallery from the American Masters film Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story. Learn how Lamarr invented frequency hopping, the basis of secure wireless...
Website
BBC

Bbc News: Niger Country Profile

For Students 9th - 10th
Niger is a country on the edge of the Sahara desert. This BBC profile includes an overview of the country's history, demographic and economic facts, information on its leaders and a listing of its communications media.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Bringing the Universe to America's Classrooms: Waves: Light Collection

For Students K - 1st
Observe the appearance of objects under different conditions to find that objects are only visible when illuminated by light, explore how light interacts with different materials, and develop a code that uses light to communicate across...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Hedy Lamarr: Engineering and Invention

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover Hedy Lamarr's contributions as a woman in STEM in this video from the American Masters film, Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story. Lamarr has received belated acknowledgement for inventing frequency hopping, the basis of secure...
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Arthur: Definition of Cool

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Talk with your children about what it means to be cool. Encourage them to realize that being cool means feeling good about your actions and yourself.
Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Technology and Resources: Lesson 2

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This video discusses technology resources to use for creating your lecture media and the importance of injecting yourself into your lesson. This lesson is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Technology and resources."
Lesson Plan
New Zealand Ministry of Education

Nz Ministry of Education: Logging Up Reading Mileage

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students will select and enjoy their own range of contemporary and historical texts, display a knowledge of different genre and their particular content, and identify literary aspects of chosen texts for sustained silent reading. They...
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Sesame Street: Teeny Tiny Garden Craft

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Grow your own garden with this lesson plan. Learners will learn about plants while they create their own garden.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Sesame Street: Watercolor Butterflies Craft

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This website shows students how to make their own watercolors to decorate their butterfly.
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: American Masters Collection: Hedy Lamarr

For Students 9th - 10th
Major support for Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. This is a collection of four video lessons about Hedy Lamarr including her acting career and her inventions. Teaching materials are included.
Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Virus Information and Prevention

For Students Pre-K - 1st
What are viruses and how do they spread? Find resources for students of all ages that explore the nature of viruses, how they are transmitted, and the healthy habits we can all engage in to prevent their spread. From the common cold to...
Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Technology and Resources: Lesson 3

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This video discusses technology resources to use for creating your lecture media and the importance of injecting yourself into your lesson. This lesson is 3 of 3 in the series titled "Technology and resources."