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Teaching Resources

Curriculum Materials

The Media Education Lab creates free multimedia curriculum materials to help learners of all ages advance knowledge, skills, and competencies.

Newsweek's Media Literacy Skills Builder

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 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