Curriculum Materials
The Media Education Lab creates free multimedia curriculum materials to help learners of all ages advance knowledge, skills, and competencies.
Copyright And Fair Use Lesson Plans
Lesson plans and materials to help you teach about copyright and fair use
Students Taking Action, Not Drugs (STAND)
This online curriculum includes nine lesson plans to help your students make public service announcements (PSAs) that can be aired or displayed to a large national audience.
TV Smarts for Kids
TV Smarts is a set of three short videos designed to promote critical thinking about the media.
Messages & Meanings
Lesson plans for analyzing news media, developed by Renee Hobbs in coordination with the Newspaper Association of America
Elements of Language
Elements of Language (Holt, Rinehart and Winston) is the first English language arts textbook to fully incorporate media literacy throughout the series for students in grades 6 -12.
Newsweek's Media Literacy Skills Builder
Help students understand advertising, media ownership, and issues of representation.
SNAPS Photo Cards for Media Literacy
SNAPS photo cards are an easy-to-use set of 30 large cardboard cards depicting a variety of different types of television programs.
Finally-- a flexible teaching resource for children! They're fun!
The SNAPS photo cards help young children acquire a vocabulary for talking about what they see on television.
Explore media literacy issues including target audience, point of view, purpose, violence in the media, advertising and materialism, and the representation of gender and race. Use the cards to support reading, writing, speaking and listening skill development. Available from the Center for Media Literacyhttp://www.medialit.org