- UHS
- Media Literacy Resources
Lessons & Curricula
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Pre-made lessons and units to teach media literacy skills and news literacy skills.
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Lateral Reading & Evaluating Sources
CIVIX: Ctrl+F
- Teacher-facilitated or student self-paced lessons to teach lateral reading evaluation skills, with an extensive bank of practice claims to check.
PBS NewsHour Classroom: Be Media Wise
- Activities connected to how to interact with online information.
Stanford History Education Group: Civic Online Reasoning
- Lessons and assessments on evaluating sources, with a focus on history and science subjects.
- Videos and articles featuring teens that address viral stories and walk through the process of fact-checking them.
- Project of PBS NewsHour Classroom and the Poynter Institute.
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News Literacy
- Short unit on checking claims and sources using the SIFT protocol.
Mind Over Media: Analyzing Contemporary Propaganda
- Unit plan that uses modern propaganda to teach students how to recognize and respond to it.
News Literacy Project: Checkology
- Online units introduce students to how newsrooms work and introduce methods for understanding how to interact with the news.
News Literacy Project: Resource Library
- Lessons, posters, infographics, and other resources to use with students.
- Daily Do Now slides are updated weekly and offer daily bell ringer activities connected to current events to keep news literacy skills front of mind for students.
News Literacy Project: RumorGuard
- Explainers for viral hoaxes that explain how to assess them to determine if they are real.
Newseum ED: Lesson Plans
- Lesson plans on journalism and media literacy for students in grades 8-12.
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Copyright & Ethics
Copyright and Creativity: Resources
- Lessons and infographics addressing copyright and ethical media use.
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Social Media
Cornell Social Media Lab: Social Media Test Drive
- Activities with simulated social media situations for a middle school audience around safe online behavior.
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General Media Literacy
Common Sense Media: Digital Citizenship Lessons for 8-12
- Lesson plans sorted by intended grade level.
- Full digital citizenship curriculum available.
CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments)
- Open source respository of lessons by teachers and librarians.
- Projects and curricula for each built around media creation challenges.
MediaSmarts: Find a Lesson
- Searchable and filterable database of lessons and games to use with students
PBS KQED: Above the Noise
- Brief videos (<10 minutes) discussing media and tech issues that impact teens.
PBS NewsHour Classroom: Media Literacy
- Lesson plans and topical bell ringer activities connected to media literacy.
Project Look Sharp: Lessons & Kits
- Search for lessons by subject or grade level.
For Educators
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Resources for educators looking to learn more about media literacy instruction and incorporate it into existing or original lessons.
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Learn More About Media Literacy
KQED Teach: Media Literacy and Media Making for K-12 Educators
- Resources for teachers to gain skills in teaching and assessing student media projects
MediaSmarts: Digital Literacy Training for Canadian Educators
- 36 minute introduction to digital literacy concepts for educators
Project Look Sharp: DIY
- Question paths with resources for teachers developing lessons that use media or require media decoding
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Newsletters
News Literacy Project: The Sift
- Archive of weekly newsletters with resources for talking about the news with students, recent viral hoaxes and the process for understanding them as hoaxes, and a roundup of news about the news.
- High recommend subscribing to keep up with the world of news misinformation and ongoing news narratives.
Project Look Sharp: Newsletter
- Archive of monthly newsletters with newly created resources and updates on media literacy news.
- With a free account, Project Look Sharp will send the newsletter to educators each month.
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Media Literacy Week
- Project of the National Association of Media Literacy Education
- Next MLW: October 27-31, 2025
- Resources they recommend
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Fact Checking
- Curates articles from sources with different biases on the same topic for comparison.
- Articles with the evidence for popular claims, with links to sources. Includes a section on science claims in addition to politics and news items.
On the Media's Breaking News Consumer Handbooks
- Reminders and questions to ask when reading breaking stories, both generally and tailored for specifc news situations.
- Fact checks of political claims and explainers on what is known about unresolved political questions, with links to sources.
- Explainers on viral social media stories, using authenticity, source, evidence, context, and reasoning as a framework for evaluating claims.
- Explainers on viral stories, with links to sources.
