iCivics
I Civics: The Role of Media
Students examine the types and roles of the media by taking on the role of newsmaker and agenda-setter.
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Wosu Public Media: Are You Digi Fit?: Who Are You Online? [Pdf]
This is a brief K-4 instructional activity summary that links to a Common Sense Media slideshow. It looks at what a digital footprint is and how it can be positive or negative and influence how people see you now or in the future. The...
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Wnet: Thirteen: Lesson Plan: How Media Shapes Perception
Interesting lesson that allows learners to explore the messages and influence of the media, especially on young minds. Objectives, standards, and procedures included for teachers.
Cynthia J. O'Hora
Mrs. O's House: Government, Statistics and the Media
Dig into the role media has on public opinion by discussing questions raised and reviewing resources provided with this lesson.
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Pbs Learning Media: How Technology Changed the Way Candidates Run for President?
This lesson plan focuses on how technology has changed Presidential election campaigns. It includes reading articles and conducting research.
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Pbs Learning Media: Working for the Party | 60 Second Presidents
This lesson focuses on the influence party system has on American presidents. Some presidents were willing to do whatever their party said, while others were much more independent. Students will view videos featuring presidents Warren...
American Forum for Global Education
American Forum for Global Education: International Conflict & the Media (Unit)
This curriculum guide broadly examines the relationships between the media and the military during wartime.
Media Smarts
Media Awareness Network: What's in a Word? Lesson Plan
Help 5th through 7th graders explore the power of words and their capacity to influence our thinking with this lesson from the Media Awareness Network. An easy-to-print .pdf version is linked from the top of the page.
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Pbs Learning Media: Point of View: Who, Me? Biased?: Understanding Implicit Bias
In this interactive lesson plan, learners explore the extent to which society (and they themselves) may discriminate based on factors they're not even aware of, implicit biases. Why haven't laws been enough to eliminate discrimination?...
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Pbs Learning Media: Precipitation on the Planet
Precipitation affects many aspects of our lives, from drinking water and food to devastating rain or snow storms. NASA gathered information from satellites to study factors that influence precipitation. View these narrated and unnarrated...
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Pbs Learning Media: Meet the 2016 Presidential Candidates: Lesson Plan
In this lesson, young scholars will get to know the candidates running for president and where they stand on important issues. They will create a flow chart documenting the steps a candidate must take to be elected. Then they will...
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Pbs Learning Media: Making Civics Real: Electoral Politics
In this lesson from Annenberg Learner, students divide into small groups to brainstorm and research specific community issues, prioritize the issues studied on the basis of what they have learned, present their findings to the class both...
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Pbs Learning Media: Montana: Lewis and Clark Find the Great Falls of the Missouri River
This lesson gives students an introduction to the state of Montana. Students will be introduced to key events and people from Montana, as well as learn how boundaries are established and maintained, and how culture influences one's...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Actions Speak Louder [Pdf]
In this lesson, students examine the role of the media in promoting a service project. They will create relevant media materials, implement a service project and then reflect on the results.
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: Text and Art
Students will examine the work of artist Barbara Kruger and consider how visual media, such as in print and advertising, can be constructed to influence viewers' perceptions and behaviors. Students will create their own works of art...
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Sti Lesson 32: The John Travolta Syndrome
The songs and movies of modern times have had a major influence on fashion. Coincidentally, many of these important fashion-influencing films of recent times had one thing in common: John Travolta. From the white leisure suits ofSaturday...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Whose Voice Guides Your Choice?
In this one-two week unit, students explore the role media has in influencing public opinion. Students analyze advertising in print, video, and online formats. An optional visit to the Museum of Television and Radio via distance learning...
Stanford University
Stanford History Education Group: Invasion of Nanking
[Free Registration/Login Required] Observe the difference in perception, or how cautious a nation can be, in delivering historical events that may place a nation in a negative light. With a free registration, gain access to a lesson plan...
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Pbs Teachers: Sports Screeners
Examine how physical activity and sports are depicted in movies and on television. Hypothesize how images of physical activity and sports depictions in entertainment can influence young people's attitudes and behaviors.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Bridging World History: Food, Demographics, and Culture
This unit probes into the role food plays in society in terms of culture, economy and global awareness since the primary globalization in the 1500s through videos, various readings, and activities.
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Pbs Teachers: The Climate Change Skeptic's Argument
Lesson plan examines the possibility that the contemporary climate change is due to natural solar cycles. Objectives are to review the evidence of total solar irradiance, analyze data to understand the influence of solar variability, and...
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: Learning From Leaves: A Look at Leaf Size [Pdf]
A lesson unit where students examine and measure leaf sizes, as well as look at their textures, and draw conclusions about environmental factors that may have influenced their growth positively or negatively.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: The Presidential Debates (Lesson Plan)
A lesson activity that has students investigating media coverage of presidential debates and discussing how viewers are influenced by things other than the issues being debated. Students will also explore techniques that can help viewers...
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Pbs Teachers: Just Desserts
Identify advertising techniques designed to encourage children to overindulge in unhealthy foods. Explore the motives behind advertising and use your knowledge to think critically about ads all around you. Scroll down to "Just Desserts,"...
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