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News Literacy
Bringing Help to News Deserts: Lesson Plan
In a news desert that doesn’t have trained journalists seeking truth and expert opinions about education in its community, students can help fill that void.Information Gathering and Fact Checking
News Literacy
In Search of a Free and Fair Press
To help students read more critically, compare two news articles about the same event and start developing the skills to spot ways some media may be giving readers a slanted view.Bias and Credibility
News Literacy
Journalism in American History
This inquiry-based lesson allows students to research major eras in journalism, notable people and technological advancements in the field.Foundations of News Literacy
News Literacy
Futures Wheels: Developing and Refining Journalistic Story Planning to Better Identify Context, Background and Meaningful Events, Empowering Journalism’s Social Responsibilities
Futures Wheels were designed by futurists to see what the future might bring, positive or negative. Can it be a part of journalistic story planning, source acquisition and other types of information processing to craft stories that meet audience needs?Foundations of News Literacy
News Literacy
Black Journalism in America
After reading news stories from a variety of Black and general audience media, students will be able to analyze differences in coverage, sources and perspectives in current news.Foundations of News Literacy
News Literacy
Famous Black journalists
After learning basic information about historic and current Black journalists, students will create a project looking more in depth into one historical figure.Foundations of News Literacy
News Literacy
Examining Racial Bias in Mainstream Media
This lesson provides students an opportunity to discuss how racial bias impacts news coverage in mainstream media outlets through a short video about multidisciplinary artist Alexandra Bell.Bias and Credibility
News Literacy
Analyzing Media Coverage and Finding Factual and Unbiased News
This lesson focuses on teaching media biases through the scope of identifying and analyzing media coverage.Bias and Credibility
News Literacy
Evaluating Political Ads
Students will evaluate advertisements, consider the ethical dilemmas of using persuasive tactics in political advertising and create their own political advertisements.Media Literacy
News Literacy
News vs Public Relations
In this lesson, students will differentiate between student reporting and school public relations by comparing and contrasting student publications with school public relations content.News Literacy for the Publications Staff
News Literacy
Covering sensitive topics — Exploring media coverage of race cases
This lesson explores news editorial coverage of the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases by looking at editorials printed by major newspapers during the cases and grand jury investigations.Bias and Credibility
News Literacy
How the pros fact check
This lesson walks students through the fact checking process of professionals at the American Press Institute and Politifact. Then, students will apply this same process to their own fact-checking exercise.Information Gathering and Fact Checking
News Literacy
Identifying bias in information
Students will learn about the ethical mandate that requires news to be free from personal opinion. Students will learn to identify common statements of opinion.Bias and Credibility
News Literacy
Understanding source credibility
Students will learn the basic characteristics of trustworthy news sources.Bias and Credibility
News Literacy
Who is a journalist?
In this lesson, students will explore the differences between citizen journalism and professional journalism, including education, ethical content and judgment.Bias and Credibility
News Literacy
Evaluating website credibility
Students will learn the key questions they should ask in order to determine the credibility of online news websites.Bias and Credibility