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Subject: Media Literacy

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Lesson Plan November 13 2022

Media literacy lesson: Gun laws and book bans — how to find the missing context

Learn why context is as important as any other tool in determining what is true or not online
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Lesson Plan October 27 2022

Be MediaWise lesson 4: Effective Keyword Searches

Learn how social media designed to scare can lead some to share misinformation
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Lesson Plan October 24 2022

Be MediaWise lesson 10: Recognizing satire before sharing it as misinformation

Equip your students with the tools to distinguish satirical news sources from legitimate news sources
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Lesson Plan October 17 2022

Be MediaWise lesson 9: Identifying news sites that aren't actually legit

Learn how some media sources have been built to deceive, and how to spot them
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Daily News Lesson October 05 2022

Mother and child sit down for candid conversation about vaccine hesitancy
Hear a conversation between a mother and her child about what helped her move passed conspiracy theories about vaccines
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Lesson Plan October 05 2022

Media literacy lesson: How to understand statistics and data in the news

Make sense of statistics presented on social media
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Lesson Plan September 21 2022

Media literacy lesson: How to fact-check partisan social media posts

Sort through the noise surrounding the most consequential legislation passed by Congress this year
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Daily News Lesson July 11 2022

Media literacy: How disinformation about abortion spread in a post-Roe America
Learn about the spread of misinformation following the landmark Dobbs decision
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Lesson Plan June 08 2022

Be MediaWise lesson 1: How Images Help Spread Misinformation

Learn how to sort through misinformation online in this lesson produced by Student Reporting Labs and the Poynter Institute
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Lesson Plan April 08 2022

Lesson plan: Build a 'media literacy survival kit'

In this media literacy lesson, students design media literacy survival kits to help combat misinformation and conspiracy theories online
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