Sox Sperry, Project Look Sharp's primary curriculum writer, led participants in an exploration of elements from Project Look Sharp's lessons related to sustainability for teachers in the elementary grades. These lessons will be available free and online this summer from our website. The webinar offers elementary educators and teachers-in-training pedagogical techniques and curriculum materials to support a deeper understanding of how to use media documents that:
- support content teaching about water quality, climate change and hunger
- introduce media production as a way to deepen media literacy awareness
- encourage core subject integration of ELA, math, science and social studies.
Sperry examines media literacy goals analyzing target audience, purpose and techniques. We’ll explore ways to use video creation and analysis along with website articles and graphs as a means to teach common core ELA & math skills, Next Generation Science disciplinary core ideas and C3 social studies concepts. Participants receive handouts, lessons, and other tools to immediately integrate media literacy into curriculum design.
