Media Literacy & Information Literacy

21st Century Information Fluency Project Portal
News, information, tools, and standards-aligned instructional strategies for information literacy/fluency in K-16.

Advertising Techniques
Lesson plans and activities related to advertising.

Assignment Media Literacy
Sponsored by the Media Education Lab at Temple University, this site offers free standards-based lesson plans including video clips, worksheets for activities and assignments, and evaluation sheets. Follow links to separate lessons for elementary, middle school, and high school students.

Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education
This guide identifies five principles that represent the media literacy education community’s current consensus about acceptable practices for the fair use of copyrighted materials, wherever and however it occurs: in K-12 education, in higher education, in nonprofit organizations that offer programs for children and youth, and in adult education.

Comparing News Sources: Where Would You Turn?
Students explore and critique a variety of news sources.

Cyberspace at Discovery
Vocabulary, comprehension questions, activities, links.

Deconstructing Media Messages
Students in grades 3-5 describe the different people involved in creating a media message.

The Director in the Classroom
This page contains links to sites with information about filmmaking, including desktop video.

Film Study
Links to ideas for teaching film as a genre and for working with specific films in the classroom.

Greatest Films
Interpretive, descriptive review commentary and historical background for hundreds of classic Hollywood and other American films in the last century, a wealth of film reference material of all kinds, a famous film quotations quiz, a complete Academy Awards (Oscars) History and detailed Film History - by decade, and hundreds of colorful, vintage film poster reproductions.

How Media Shapes Perception
In this standards-based unit high school students explore media bias, emotional impact of the news, and the influence of the media on children.

Jurassic Park: an Information Literacy WebQuest
Students evaluate the quality of Web sites. Familiarity with Jurassic Park is not essential.

KNOW TV
A curriculum with video clips for exploring critical analysis of non-fiction television with students in grades 6-12.

Media & Lit: Increasing Media Literacy and Cultural Diversity
Syllabus, resources, reading list, and semester project (including rubric) for a one-semester 11th grade media literacy class.

Media Literacy Clearinghouse
An extensive collection of links to articles, background and lesson plans designed to help teachers integrate media literacy into classroom instruction.

Media Literacy Research Project
Students learn about types of questions and the research process. They research and present information on gender in advertising, race in advertising, or violence in the media.