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, 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
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
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: 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, 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, 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
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
Media and Influence
This lesson focuses on how media influences politics and society. Students learn …
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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, 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
First Draft Verification Challenge
The lesson includes multiple challenges walking users through verifying Facebook posts using …
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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
Cranky Uncle
This engaging game can be downloaded as an app or played using …
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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
Teaching evolutionary processes to skeptical students
This article aims to help teachers address beliefs of some students that …
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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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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: High, Grades: Middle, Instructional Materials, Science
To Tell the Truth
This game helps students who are not experts reflect on the nature …
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For Educators, Grades: High, Grades: Middle, Instructional Materials, Science
Hurricane Katrina
This lesson encourages students to identify trustworthy sources in the context of …
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For Educators, Grades: High, Grades: Middle, Instructional Materials, Science
Comparing Articles
This short activity presents two articles about climate change from the same …
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