MediaSmarts provides digital and media literacy lessons for students. In this lesson, young students will learn about the importance of spokescharacters for companies. Then students will create own jingles and spokescharacters for foods...

This lesson plan looks at the current controversy of the FCC and making media outlets more accountable for what comes over their airways. In particular, the Super Bowl Halftime Show is discussed and looked at.

Complete learning module with lesson plan, video, vocabulary and activities on free speech and social media. Students examine arguments through video and text and debate to what extent should social media be protected as free speech...

Read about the ways in which educators can create social media guidelines that work to keep students safe.

This module from a resident educator named Ms. Hernandez shares resources that explain how to discuss media images with their young children.

For this lesson, students examine the different ways candidates use social media, including Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter in their presidential campaigns. They will watch videos, read articles, and examine candidates' social media pages.

This is a multimedia information center for journalists working (or hoping to work) in television. Great visuals and reader-friendly copy.

Students review their media habits and the array of media they use on a weekly basis, and reflect on the role of digital media in their lives. Requires free membership.

Read about strategies to help students integrate information across diverse media formats. Includes video. [4:18]

An extensive list of growing media from the Texas A&M Dept. of Horticulture.

Students examine the types and roles of the media by taking on the role of newsmaker and agenda-setter.

This is a collection of classroom resources to engage students during the 2016 Presidential elections. These include links to news, debates in the classroom, the election process, lesson plans, historical presidential speeches, etc.

Social media gives us a chance to choose how we present ourselves to the world. We can snap and share a pic in the moment or carefully stage photos and select only the ones we think are best. When students reflect on these choices, they...

Learn the principles of video and television lighting from Media College.

Since a recent Stanford study showed that students at practically all grade levels can't determine fake news from the real stuff, the push to teach media literacy has gained new momentum. This article gives five quality examples of...

This article from the American Psychological Association provides tips about how to limit news exposure after tragic events.

This lesson plan will help young students explore how television can be used to tell stories.

How does an airplane stay aloft when upside down? This media-rich essay from the NOVA Web site offers an explanation based on Newton's third law of motion.

This media-rich series of interviews from the NOVA: "Stationed in the Stars" Web site explores the unique challenges faced by astronauts doing construction work in outer space.

In this media-rich essay from the NOVA Web site, astronomer Brent Tully of the University of Hawaii walks you through the latest scientific theories about the size of the universe.

Grab your science tools and explore with PBS KIDS. Through hands-on activities and exciting media that transports you to space and in the Earth, this collection will bring science to life in your classroom. These resources help students...

In this media-rich, self-paced lesson, students explore activism - taking action to bring about change - including some causes that activists espouse and the tactics that they use to end harmful practices or reshape policies. The lesson...

Consider the debate over prescription drug pricing, the government's role in regulating drug prices, concepts of media literacy and the role of these concepts in pharmaceutical advertising, in this Teacher's Guide to "The Other Drug...

This site from the PC Guide provides informative information about compact disk media, with links to construction and manufacture, data encoding and decoding, CD capacity, and formats.