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Teaching students to find trustworthy information needs to become a priority in more science classrooms. Learning to Find Trustworthy Scientific Information, published by Media Literacy Now in September 2023, identifies our goals and recommendations to help K-12 students better evaluate scientific information.
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Each year, we publish the Media Literacy Policy Report outlining the status of media literacy education laws for K-12 schools in the U.S.. The 2022 report was released in February 2024 and shows the significant progress of state-level policymakers as well as other organizations and key institutions and individuals to recognize an urgent need for media literacy education and to take action.

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For Educators, Grades: High, Instructional Materials, Science
Sorting Fact From Fiction: Media Literacy in Biology
Students evaluate a conspiracy theory and, later, a pseudoscience claim, then apply …
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For Educators, Grades: High, Instructional Materials, Science
Popular Media in the Biology Classroom: Viewing Popular Science Skeptically
Biology is a “fact-based subject” socially embedded in a world of opinions, …
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For Educators, Grades: High, Grades: Middle, Instructional Materials, Science
Lateral Reading vs. Vertical Reading
This lesson allows students to practice reading laterally in a scientific context. …
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For Educators, Grades: High, Grades: Middle, Instructional Materials, Science
News Literacy Model Curriculum in Science
This collection of lessons looks at news literacy on a variety of …
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For Educators, Grades: High, Instructional Materials, Science
Feast on Facts: Food Evolution Educational Resource Guide
These lessons use the film Food Evolution to engage students in critical …
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For Educators, Grades: High, Grades: Middle, Instructional Materials, Science
Media and Influence
This lesson focuses on how media influences politics and society. Students learn …
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For Educators, Grades: High, Instructional Materials, Science
Understanding Misinformation: A Lesson Plan Toolkit
The toolkit provides three lessons to teach about misinformation. The third learning …
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For Educators, Grades: Elementary, Grades: Middle, Instructional Materials, Science
Nature Images: Constructing “nature” in Visual Culture and Ads
Students observe and reflect on photographs of “nature” and then explore how …
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For Educators, Grades: High, Grades: Middle, Instructional Materials, Science
“COVID-19 between Myth and Science”—Innovative Experiments for Analyzing Fake News Inside and Outside the Chemistry Classroom
Chemistry students perform experiments to explore the efficacy of efforts to reduce …
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For Educators, Grades: High, Instructional Materials, Science
Media Savvy Scientific Literacy: Developing Critical Evaluation Skills by Investigating Scientific Claims
These lessons provide an instructional approach to help students learn how to …
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For Educators, Grades: High, Instructional Materials, Science
Fake News with Real Consequences: The Effect of Cultural Identity on the Perception of Science
This is a three-part activity for engaging biology students in evaluating the …
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For Educators, Grades: Elementary, Grades: High, Grades: Middle, Instructional Materials, Science
Fantastic Beasts 1
This lesson focuses on credibility. The central questions are: Can you believe …
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For Educators, Grades: Elementary, Grades: High, Grades: Middle, Instructional Materials, Science
Fantastic Beasts 2
This lesson focuses on credibility. The central questions are: Can you believe …
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For Educators, Grades: High, Grades: Middle, Instructional Materials, Science
Evaluating Scientifiic Content: Misinformation about Insects in a Popular Children’s Movie
The lesson guides students through evaluating the scientific content in a popular …
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For Educators, Grades: High, Grades: Middle, Instructional Materials, Science
Resisting Scientific Misinformation
This comprehensive four lesson unit for grades 6-12 includes a free short …
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For Educators, Grades: High, Grades: Middle, Instructional Materials, Science
Evaluating Advertising Claims Past and Present
Students are invited to discuss a 1917 advertisement featuring a table showing …
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For Educators, Grades: High, Instructional Materials, Science
Media Literacy in the Age of COVID and Climate Change
Students identify correlation and causation terms in mainstream and scientific articles regarding …
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For Educators, Grades: High, Grades: Middle, Instructional Materials, Science
Making Sense of the News in the Time of Coronavirus
This lesson helps students ascertain the reliability of news and information about …
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For Educators, Grades: High, Grades: Middle, Instructional Materials, Science
Sourcing Your Information: Evaluating Media
In this Nearpod Digital Citizenship and Literacy lesson, students identify strategies for …
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For Educators, Grades: Elementary, Grades: High, Grades: Middle, Instructional Materials, Science
Science L.I.A.R.S.: A Game to Combat Misinformation
Students form groups of three. Each group finds one wacky-sounding science story …
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For Educators, Grades: High, Grades: Middle, Instructional Materials, Science
A Writing-to-Learn Approach for Improving Students’ Evaluation of Science Web Sources
The lesson provides a scaffolded activity to help students evaluate sources and …
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For Educators, Grades: Elementary, Grades: High, Grades: Middle, Instructional Materials, Science, Videos & Graphics
ScienceUpFirst
This page has several short videos and infographics addressing scientific misinformation and …
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For Educators, Grades: High, Grades: Middle, Instructional Materials, Science
Who’s the Expert?
These two 5E Inquiry lessons are centered around identifying expertise. Students are …
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For Educators, Grades: Elementary, Grades: High, Grades: Middle, Instructional Materials, Science, Videos & Graphics
Editor for a Day
This resource is a photograph of people in a newsroom and a …
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