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Temple University: Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Ed
This multi-media website helps educators understand their rights concerning copyright materials for educational purposes. Copyright and fair use, case study videos, user rights, a PowerPoint presentation, and other useful resources are...
Other
Jump Cut: Conflict and Contradiction in the Mass Media
The author of this articles explores the evolution of thinking about mass media's role in society, and discusses the positive and negative aspects of mass media, and ways that it can be in conflict with corporations, governments, and...
Media Smarts
Media Smarts: Can You Spot the Ad?
MediaSmarts provides digital and media literacy lessons for students. In this lesson plan, young students will learn how to differentiate "branded" and brands" in content. Students will also learn learn strategies and goals of advertisers.
Get It Write
Get It Write: Criteria, Media, and Memorandums
Do you know when to use "criteria" and when to use "criterion?" What about "media" and "medium?" The correct singular and plural usage of these words can cause confusion. This site gives a good explanation of how to use these words...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Life Science for Grade 4 With Wild Kratts
This unit uses Wild Kratt videos, hands-on activities, and document resources to teach about animal senses. Extensions for further learning are also provided.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Earth's Water Movements
The paths that water can take through Earth's systems are many and complex. Examine the following diagram from NASA depicting the water cycle. Studying the water cycle is important because changes in the water cycle affect all parts of...
BBC
Bbc Religion and Ethics News: Judaism
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), one of the world's most influential media outlets, collects news stories about Judaism at this site. Religion and Ethics News is updated daily and indexes a broad swath of up-to-the-minute...
BBC
Bbc Religion and Ethics News: Christianity
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), one of the world's most influential media outlets, collects up-to-the-minutes news stories about Christianity at this site.
BBC
Bbc Religion and Ethics News: Hinduism
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), one of the world's most influential media outlets, collects up-to-the-minutes news stories about Hinduism at this site.
BBC
Bbc Religion and Ethics News: Buddhism
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), one of the world's most influential media outlets, collects up-to-the-minutes news stories about Buddhism at this site.
University of California
Ucla: Cultural Studies, and Multiculturalism
In the last third of this professor's article from UCLA dealing with how media culture helps to "forge our very identities," he considers MTV as a way of making cultural studies "multiperspectival" and therefore more varied and valid.
CommonLit
Common Lit: "Wealthy Teen Nearly Experiences Consequences" by the Onion Staff
A learning module that begins with the satirical article "Wealthy Teen Nearly Experiences Consequences" by The Onion Staff, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Teaching Tips: Deductive and Inductive Reasoning (1St Grade)
Use these teaching tips from the PBS Kids Lab to help children make sense of problems and persevere in solving them, determine the unknown whole number in an addition or subtraction equations, use addition and subtraction within 20 to...
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Consumer Action
Consumer Action serves consumers nationwide by advancing consumer rights, referring consumers to complaint-handling agencies through their free hotline, publishing educational materials in Chinese, English, Korean, Spanish, Vietnamese...
CNN
Cnn: Fidel Castro Laid to Rest in Private Funeral
Following the traditional nine days of mourning, Fidel Castro's ashes were placed in a granite mausoleum Sunday morning during a private ceremony attended by Castro's little-seen family and a handful of Latin American and African...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Frontline: Sick Around the World Teacher's Guide
Students learn about health care in other countries with this Teacher's Guide to "Sick Around the World." The FRONTLINE video explores how ?ve other capitalist democracies - the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Taiwan and Switzerland -...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Understanding the Opioid Epidemic: Facts & Fictions of Opioid Addiction/recovery/relapse: Lesson Plan
In this lesson, to be used with the program Understanding the Opioid Epidemic, students, through research, discussion and viewing the program, will learn some factual information about the opioid epidemic, addiction recovery options and...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Providers: High School Guide
Designed for high school audiences, this Guide can be used to facilitate dialogue about, and deepen understanding of, the complex issues portrayed in The Providers - a documentary that follows three healthcare providers in northern New...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Providers: Higher Education Guide
Designed for high school audiences, this teaching guide can be used to facilitate dialogue about, and deepen understanding of, the complex issues portrayed in The Providers. A documentary that follows three healthcare providers in...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Multimodality: Remix and Attribution
This instructional activity focuses on defining remix, why attribution is important in a remix, and how to attribute fairly. It also provides a table, Limitations When Remixing Copyrighted Work, and a practice exercise....
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University System of Georgia: Civil Rights Digital Library
Compilation of primary resources from broadcasters, museums, libraries, and other content repositories, constituting a scholarly collection of primary sources that document aspects of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s....
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Federal Communications Commission: About the Fcc
This site from the FCC provides an in-depth look at the Federal Communications Commission and the job it performs.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Titanic Officer Swears Wreck Due to Company's Neglect
A learning module that begins with "Titanic Officer Swears Wreck Due to Company's Neglect" by United Press Leased Wire, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a...
Have Fun With History
Have Fun With History: Industrial Revolution
Multi media learning module with videos for students and teachers to learn about the Industrial Revolution and how America moved from and agricultural society to an urban machine-based production in the 19th Century.