Elementary Curriculum
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Grade Level - All Ages
"Food For Thought" is an ACME-created collection of activities and resources designed to use media literacy education - teaching ourselves how to access, analyze, evaluate and produce media - to help us raise important questions about our relationship to our food.
Developed by ACME and Rural Vermont.
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Need vs. want
Grade Level: 2
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Advertising Awareness
Grade Level: 1/2
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Learning to be Critical of Commercials
Grade Level: K-2
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Exploring Adolescent Health with a Critical Eye on the Media
Grade Level: K-12
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Media Messages
Grade Level: 1-2
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Lesson Plans focusing on Media Literacy and How to Evaluate Commercials
Grade Level: 1-2
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Middle School Curriculum
Are You For Sale?
Using Persuasion to Buy Everything From Your Image to Your Vote
Grade Level: 7/8
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Integrating Media Literacy Education
into the Middle School Health Curriculum
Grade Level: 8
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PULLING BACK THE CURTAIN:
CREATING AWARENESS of ADVERTSING for MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS
Grade Level: 8
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TELEVISION TYPES:
How the media portrays minorities in its programming and commercials
Grade Level: 8
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Just Do it: An Investigation of Advertising and Media
Grade Level: 8
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Selling Candidates: Campaign Advertising Unit for 7th and 8th Grades:
Adobe Acrobat Document  Eve Pranis - 1999

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High School Curriculum
"What's the Frequency, Kenneth?"
How Advertising Gets In Our Heads
Grade Level: 10-12
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Feed Unit Plan
Grade Level: 11/12
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Argument in the Media that Surrounds Us
An introductory Unit for 10th Grade English
Grade Level: 10
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Media and Society:
Analyzing the World We Live In
Grade Level: 12
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Are you Cool?
Grade Level: 11/12
Subject areas: Social Studies, Media Education, Psychology
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Slogan Solutions
Grade Level: 11/12
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Creative Control: Advertising and Propaganda
Grade Level: 9-12
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Complete Gender Equity Unit
www.genderequity.org/medialit/contents.html

College
A Five Part Overview of Media Literacy for Any Classroom
From College or Continuing Education to Community Awareness
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Thinking Critically About Web Page Content
www.lib.msu.edu/link/critical.htm

Evaluating Internet Research Resources
www.virtualsalt.com/evalu8it.htm

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Vermont Standards

Educational standards that support Media Literacy curriculum are found throughout the Vermont’s Framework of Standards and Learning Opportunities. Here are just a few that have been identified as relating directly to media literacy education:

Vital Results

Communication Standards
1.11 Writing: Persuasive Writing
1.14 Listening: Critique
1.18 Information Technology: Research
1.20 Information Technology: Communication of Data

Reasoning and Problem Solving Standards
2.13 Abstract and Creative Thinking: Product/Service

Personal Development Standards
3.7 Making Decisions: Informed Decisions
3.9 Making Decisions: Environment
3.10 Relationships: Teamwork
3.13 Relationships: Roles and Responsibilities

Civic/Social Responsibility Standards
4.4 Human Diversity: Effects of Prejudice
4.5 Change: Continuity and Change


Fields of Knowledge

Arts, Language, and Literature Standards
5.14 Literature and Media: Responding to Media
5.15 Literature and Media: Design and Production

History and Social Studies Standards
6.2 Critical Evaluation: Uses of Evidence and Data
6.3 Critical Evaluation: Analyzing Knowledge
6.12 Citizenship: Institutional Access
6.13 Citizenship: Human Rights
6.17 Economics: Impact of Economic Systems
6.24 Identity and Interdependence: Identity Construction

Science, Mathematics, and Technology Standards
7.16 Design and Technology: Natural Resources

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