Secondary Library Media (6-12)
Lesson Plans
Strand 1:
Reading to pursue intellectual, personal, and emotional growth for life
Standard 2:
Comprehend literary and informational texts.
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Book Reviews With Digital Photography
Students will capture their own images to promote or recommend a book from their personal reading. This assignment is designed to blend principles from digital photography, design, and library media standards to demonstrate deeper understanding and critical thinking skills. This lesson plan was created by Andrea Settle then remixed by Melissa Jensen.Image: "Student Photographer" by Melissa Jensen is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
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Does Science Fiction Predict the Future? Inquiry Based Media Literacy Unit
Students will learn the potential costs and benefits of social media, digital consumption, and our relationship with technology as a society in the three-week lesson. This inquiry based unit of study will answer the following questions: Essential Question: How can we use science fiction?s ability to predict the future to help humanity? Supportive Questions 1: What predictions of future development has science fiction accurately made in the past? This can include technology, privacy, medicine, social justice, political, environmental, education, and economic. Supportive Question 2: What predictions for future development in contemporary science fiction are positive for the future of humanity? What factors need to begin in your lifetime to make these predictions reality? Supportive Question 3: What predictions for future development in contemporary science fiction are negative for the future of humanity? What factors need to begin in your lifetime to stop these negative outcomes? (Thumbnail is a screenshot of the OER Commons lesson page, taken 7/26/2022 by Christina Nelson.)
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(USHE). Send questions or comments to USBE
Specialist -
Davina
Sauthoff
and see the Library Media website. For
general questions about Utah's Core Standards contact the Director
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Jennifer
Throndsen.
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