Sox Sperry, Project Look Sharp’s primary curriculum writer, led participants on a participatory exploration of lessons covering media representations of climate change. The lessons were drawn from the Media Constructions of Global Warming kit.
The webinar offers Middle and High School educators, community educators and teachers-in-trainingpedagogical techniques and curriculum materials to support a deeper
understanding for how to use a wide variety of media documents that:
- Support content teaching about climate change
- Examine media representations of global warming related to media literacy concepts of credibility, bias and impact
- Encourage strong sense critical thinking by asking questions about all media messages, not just those with which we may disagree.
Sperry examines media literacy goals analyzing authorship, accuracy and sourcing. He also explores ways to use different media representations of climate change as a means to teach common core ELA skills in writing to develop claims, supply evidence and analyze conclusions. Participants will leave the interactive webinar with handouts, lessons, connections with other educators, and other tools to immediately integrate media literacy into curriculum design.
