Interactives for students
Interactive site that is good for middle schoolers. This site helps students to understand that media is all around them.
Cybersmart provides activities, resources and practical advice to help young kids, kids, teens and parents safely enjoy the online world.
Interactive website for students that addresses cyberbullying. Is divided into resources for different age groups
Don't Buy It: Get Media Smart is a media literacy Web site for young people that encourages users to think critically about media and become smart consumers. Activities on the site are designed to provide users with some of the skills and knowledge needed to question, analyze, interpret and evaluate media messages.
NetSmartz is an interactive, educational safety resource from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and Boys & Girls Clubs of America for children aged 5 to 17 that uses activities to teach children how to stay safer on the Internet.
This website is a resource to use in classes on internet safety. It includes interactive games
Resources for Lesson Planning
Article about what is needed in a media literacy curriculum
Site includes other sites with historical advertising . Good resource for lessons
50 page pdf reference file that includes the key topics that necessary for students to be competent in media literacy .
Good resource for information about the causes and consequences of cyberbullying
"Standards-based lessons are aligned with national and state technology and
information literacy standards. CyberSmart! prepares students to use the
Internet for communication, creativity, collaboration, critical thinking, and
problem solving—the new basic skills for 21st century learning"
60 page PDF that includes guidelines schools can follow to keep students safe
Students will watch television and find advertising techniques used in the commercials. They will work in small cooperative groups during activities.
Teacher created lesson appropriate for middle school