This course enhances science literacy by emphasizing the repeated practice of making observations, posing questions & developing hypotheses around a narrowly focused aspect of Minnesota Geology. Students construct new knowledge using...

MediaSmarts provides digital and media literacy lessons for learners. In this lesson, young students will become reflect about television programs they enjoy and analyze why they enjoy them.

[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...

Lesson plan focusing on the importance of understanding how the news is a product with a specific scope, structure, slant and style at the forefront of its production.

This activity with a song of my choice, 'People Everyday' by Arrested Development, will be an introduction to literary analysis and media/popular music literacy. Students will learn to examine critically what they view and hear. They...

This is a Commerce and Information Technology lesson plan. A project requiring research, critical thinking and complex decision-making about factoring all the costs of purchasing a large ticket item - a car.

Students compare a book to its film adaptation, and then perform readers theater of a scene from the book that they feel was not well represented in the movie version.

This short lesson provides a fairly simple way to teach young students the difference between fact and opinion.

Engaging youth in discussions about family planning is difficult for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is the general discomfort adolescents have talking with adults about sex. Sometimes it can be easier to talk about...

A scavenger hunt where young scholars find and study examples of leaf adaptations for different environments. This activity is designed to be used on a visit to botanical gardens or greenhouse but could be adapted and used with specimens...

The goal of this PBS lesson is for students to apply spatial reasoning, problem solving, and critical thinking skills to assess which regular polygons will tessellate. A detailed lesson plan that includes related worksheets, lesson...

In this instructional activity, learners will explore how music and language arts naturally overlap to promote literacy as they cultivate their creative and critical thinking.

In this lesson, students will explore how music and language arts naturally overlap to promote literacy as they cultivate their creative and critical thinking.

This video [14:45] A Kid's Survival Guide to TV Advertising from Consumer Reports Television helps children understand television advertising by showing tricks advertisers use to fool viewers, revealing facts that ads don't provide, and...