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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: California Public Media Education Service

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Public media stations across California have banded together to package a comprehensive set of broadcast and digital resources for teachers, students, and families for at-home learning. Drawing on our most popular offerings to teachers...
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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.
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Other

Pacific Media Watch

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is produced by an independent, non-profit, non-government organization comprising journalists, lawyers, editors and other media workers, dedicated to examining issues of ethics, accountability, censorship, media freedom and...
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Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media: Parent Blog

For Students 9th - 10th
A resource filled with advice about all kinds of media for parents of children from preschoolers to teens. You can navigate the site by age, entertainment type, and topic.
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Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media: Parent Blog

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A resource filled with advice about all kinds of media for parents of children from preschoolers to teens. You can navigate the site by age, entertainment type, and topic.
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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.
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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.
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Media Smarts

Digital Media Literacy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
MediaSmarts will answer your questions regarding media literacy and why it is important to teach media literacy. Approaches to media literacy, key media literacy concepts, and evaluations and assessments pertaining to media literacy can...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Evaluating and Interpreting Media

For Students 5th - 9th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] When people talk about media literacy, they are talking about learning to understand what these messages really mean. This lesson will help you take a closer look at a few...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: 5 Core Concepts of Media Literacy

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students will engage in multiple parts of a lesson that guide students to uncover many levels of meaning in media messages. Discussion questions and a slideshow presentation are parts of the lesson that address the...
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PBS

Kqed: Quest: Education: Media Making Toolkit [For the Science Classroom]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A comprehensive guide to integrating media-making into a science classroom provides an engaging way for students to demonstrate knowledge and build 21st-century learning skills. Supplies tools for teachers to make science-based media,...
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PBS

Kqed: Quest: Education: Media Making Toolkit [For the Science Classroom]

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive guide to integrating media-making into a science classroom provides an engaging way for students to demonstrate knowledge and build 21st-century learning skills. Supplies tools for teachers to make science-based media,...
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Other

Anti Discrimination Committee: Bibliography of Media Bias

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is an online bibliography of works dealing with Anti-Arab discrimination, stereotyping, and media bias. It includes government reports and ADC reports as well as scholarly works.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Find Connections Across Texts Including Other Media

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
The subject of this lesson is the role that various media play in focusing attention on events and issues and how they seek to influence the opinions of their audiences. SL.9-10.2 eval & integrate sources
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Choosing Media for a Presentation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson will introduce students to the use of visuals and other media in their presentations that will keep their audiences clapping. When preparing for a presentation,...
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Google

Cs Education at Google: Cs First: Social Media Theme

For Teachers 4th - 8th
A set of eight activities that teach students basic computer science concepts using the programming language Scratch. Includes lots of additional supports for teachers. All materials are free and teachers sign in to create a class. This...
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Other

Media Plans

For Students 9th - 10th
This site discusses why a media plan is important and what should be included in a media plan.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Politics and Media 3: Selling the Prez

For Students 9th - 10th
Using electronic and print resources, this tutorial explores media bias and how political candidates are portrayed in the news. [2:42]
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Why Is Fake News So Effective?

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson frames the controversial issues of fake news and trust in the media with the historical context of yellow journalism and sensationalist reporting. Students learn strategies for improving their media literacy and will be able...
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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...
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Academia.edu: Teaching Media Savvy Students About the Popular Media

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In order to teach critical viewing skills, it is essential that educators understand what their students already know and understand about popular media. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.2
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University of California

Columbia University: The Media and Social Problems [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A discussion of the conflicting ideas and perspectives on the influence mass media has on society and culture, and social problems countered, caused or fueled by it. He then looks at mass media and democracy and how corporate ownership...
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Other

Media Education Lab: My Pop Studio

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Get ready to go behind-the-scenes of the television you watch, magazines you read, music you listen to, and websites you visit! The 'studios' let you.. Create, Comment, Control. Targeted at girls, the...

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