Whether you’re focused on your classroom, home, community, or constituents, we have a number of resources and tools available to help you advocate for media literacy education. The MLN Resource Library is offered as one convenient source of information, like any other library.

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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
Climate Literacy Unit
The interdisciplinary lesson set includes four activities centered on climate change misinformation. …
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For Educators, Grades: High, Grades: Middle, Instructional Materials, Science
Experimenter Bias in Science
PowerPoint Presentation featuring experimenter bias, how to identify it, and how it …
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For Educators, Grades: High, Grades: Middle, Instructional Materials, Science
Asking Questions to Foster Critical Thinking in Science
PowerPoint presentation outlines how students can use different questioning techniques to expose …
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For Educators, Grades: High, Grades: Middle, Instructional Materials, Science
Common Logical Fallacies in Science
PowerPoint presentation that uses claims, evidence, and reasoning to focus on common …
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For Educators, Grades: Middle, Instructional Materials, Science
Critical Thinking about Science News
PowerPoint presentation that uses claims, evidence, and reasoning to evaluate current scientific …
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For Educators, Grades: Elementary, Instructional Materials, Science
Digital Dogs
The Secret of the Vanishing Bones uses data collection and privacy awareness …
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For Educators, Grades: High, Grades: Middle, Instructional Materials, Science
Verifying Claims on Social Media
This lesson helps students develop and practice methods for verifying sources, arguments, …
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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
Evaluating Evidence About Climate Change
This comprehensive lesson introduces students to evaluating evidence posted on social media …
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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: Elementary, Instructional Materials, Science
Digital Citizenship in Kindergarten: Exploring Algorithms Through Inquiry
This lesson teaches through and about YouTube so children can navigate YouTube …
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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
Bill Nye: Science Guy – A Lesson Plan on Verifying Scientific Information
Based on the Documentary Bill Nye: Science Guy, this series of activities …
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For Educators, Grades: Middle, Instructional Materials, Science
How to Debunk Science Misinformation
A four-minute video about determining if a scientific story is factual. Students …
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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: Elementary, Instructional Materials, Science
Our Changing Planet: Climate, SEL and Media Literacy
Students analyze messages about the impacts of climate change and some actions …
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For Educators, Grades: High, Grades: Middle, Instructional Materials, Science
Exploring Affect and Emotion: Doing a Care and Value-Based Ecomedia Analysis
This lesson addresses emotional and behavioral connections to media in the context …
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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: 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, 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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