Great timing with this post! Media Literacy Week kicks off on October 24: https://medialiteracyweek.us/. These are good skills to have and practice all year too!

Questions for teaching media Literacy prek-12

Might I suggest that you look at these questions that are part of the Project Look Sharp strategies for teaching media literacy to your students.  There will be a file posted in the next day or two that would allow for these questions to be printed as a poster to be displayed in the classroom.  

https://projectlooksharp.org/Resources%202/Key-Questions-for-Decoding%20Dec-21.pdf

There are also questions on this topic for early childhood learners.

https://projectlooksharp.org/Resources%202/KeyQsecehandout.pdf  Pre K - 2    3 - 5    6 - 8    9 - 12    Art/Music    English/Language Arts    Library    Social Studies/History    Science    questioning    media literacy  

Questions for teaching media Literacy prek-12

Might I suggest that you look at these questions that are part of the Project Look Sharp strategies for teaching media literacy to your students.  There will be a file posted in the next day or two that would allow for these questions to be printed as a poster to be displayed in the classroom.  

https://projectlooksharp.org/Resources%202/Key-Questions-for-Decoding%20Dec-21.pdf

There are also questions on this topic for early childhood learners.

https://projectlooksharp.org/Resources%202/KeyQsecehandout.pdf  Pre K - 2    3 - 5    6 - 8    9 - 12    Art/Music    English/Language Arts    Library    Social Studies/History    Science    questioning    media literacy  

Cross-post from QFT: SHOES: How do shoes tell a story?

From   Cheryl Best  in the Question Formulation Technique group:

This is an introduction lesson plan to use with 4-8 grade to learn the QFT process and find the value of this process. Students will be examining shoes. 

Lesson Plan

Free to Use and Reuse: Shoes  |  Free to Use and Reuse Sets  |  Library of Congress (loc.gov)

https://tpsteachersnetwork.org/the-question-formulation-technique-qft-for-primary-source-learning/shoes-how-do-shoes-tell-a-story

Here's another lesson using this set of photographs by Lange. In it, students analyze primary sources to consider the following essential question: What is documentary photography and what is the role of a documentary photographer in sharing stories and shaping public opinion?

Learning from the Source: Zooming into Documentary Photography

  Photography    Documentary Photography  

Using Lange's Migrant Mother series to help students make personal connections to images

  Mary Ellen Hawkins   recent discussion Compare and Contrast Activity using Dorothea Lange photographs reminds me of an activity I previously posted. This lesson is designed to support Close Reading skills; Letting students discover their own patterns, then asking students to describe, compare and defend what they found.

Lesson context: Students are studying the Great Depression and the plight of migrant farm workers displaced by the Dust Bowl.

Set up: Tell students that it's 1938 and they work for Life Magazine as photo editors.

Task: A documentary photographer has brought in 4 photos and you have to decide which one to use to illustrate an article on the plight of the migrant workers. Find images here

Delivery: Do not use any teacher-driven rubrics for judging photos. Remember the intent "what does it mean to me?" Depending on time and class logistics they can work as individuals / small groups. You could use voting. Then let students explain why they chose a particular image as "best."

Follow up: Only after they have evaluated and discussed images 2-5, show image 1: Dorothea Lange's famous Migrant Mother and discuss what elements made that image iconic.