Secondary Library Media (6-12)
Lesson Plans

Strand 8:

Demonstrating that media literacy is a life skill integral to modern citizenship and informed decision-making.

Standard 2:

Evaluate and select media for appropriate personal, educational, and professional use.

• Create a Podcast About Your NHD Project
  This lesson plan will help students learn how create a podcast about their topic for National History Day, incorporating music clips found on Soundzabound from Utah's Online School Library.Image by: Internet Archive Book Images. Modified by Opensource.com. CC BY-SA 4.0
• Creating a Positive Digital Identity
  Students will explore how to have a positive digital identity. They will demonstrate their learning by creating a digital portfolio that reflects their personal interests, achievements, and goals
• Digital Citizenship Infographic
  A lesson that teaches Digital Citizenship by providing students and parents Digital Citizenship resources and has the students create a infographic about one specific element of Digital CitizenshipImage by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay 
• Digital Citizenship for Libraries
  Students will understand how their digital citizenship applies in library, reference, and education. They will see how those skills bridge into their everyday lives as well.
• Fake News or better known as Disinformation
  TIn this lesson we will be discussing with high school students how to protect themselves from fake news.  We will be doing an activity that has them using these skills in real time. 
• Nearpod: Student Privacy and Social Media
  This is an edited Nearpod Lesson originally created by Common Sense Media. The essential question is: "Should a school or a government be allowed to monitor your social media account? Students are asked to review the social media policy of a local school district. Students are asked to review information about governments accessing private information. Students are asked to discuss the balance between privacy and safety.
• Social Media and the Stand Against Fake News
  This is a 5 day unit about validating sources on the internet and social media.  It is taught so that students understand and respect the obligations of using social media wisely before sharing and the importance of giving credit to creators through citing sources.  It is a blended unit with a final project to be done in Apple's Keynote where students will show what they have learned in a slide show to other students in the class. They will be able to practice what they learn in class and become better at research, validating sources, and spotting fake news. Image citation - ?Say Thanks to Pxhere - Free Images & Free Stock Photos - Pxhere.? Pxhere.com, https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1361501.
• Types of Media Bias and How to Spot It
  Lesson plan that introduces students to 16 types of media bias and how to spot them. Image citation: ?How to Spot 16 Types of Media Bias.? AllSides, www.allsides.com/media-bias/how-to-spot-types-of-media-bias. Accessed 7 Aug. 2022.
• What is Media trying to tell me?
  Through watching several examples of commercials, campaign ads, TED talks, sports videos, instructional videos, and mini-documentaries, students will learn how to determine the audience, purpose, misconceptions, and level of influence various forms of media has.
• You are an Independent Reader
  Students will be given an introduction to the library layout and how to find books in the library catalog. They will understand strategies for choosing books for independent reading. Students will begin researching the various methods provided by teachers to present knowledge of a book at the end of the school year, why the selected it, and what other books they plan on reading next.

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