Media Construction of Global Warming

A Digital Media Literacy Curriculum

High School through College
Lessons teach core knowledge about the science of climate change, explore conflicting views, and integrate critical thinking skills. Students will apply knowledge of climate change to a rigorous analysis of media messages through asking and answering questions about accuracy, currency, credibility, sourcing, and bias. Lessons address basic climate science, the causes of climate change, scientific debate and disinformation, the consequences of global warming, the precautionary principle, carbon footprints, moral choices, and the history of global warming in media, science, and politics.

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• Lesson 1: Framing the Debate

  

  • Teacher's Guide
  • Transcript
  • Student Worksheets
  • The Global Warning
  • The Climate of Fear

• Lesson 2: Global Warming: Fact or Myth?

  

  • Teacher's Guide
  • Student Reading
  • Student Worksheets
  • PowerPoint Slideshow
  • The Truth about Global Warming
  • Climate Catastrophe Cancelled

• Lesson 3: Discourse or Disinformation?

  

  • Teacher's Guide
  • Student Reading
  • Transcript
  • Student Worksheets
  • The Great Global Warming Swindle

• Lesson 4: What is Causing Global Warming?

  

  • Teacher's Guide
  • Student Worksheets
  • PowerPoint Slideshow
  • They Call it Pollution
  • The Great Global Warming Swindle
  • An Inconvenient Truth

• Lesson 5: The Consequences of Global Warming

  

  • Teacher's Guide
  • Student Readings
  • Student Worksheets
  • PowerPoint Slideshow

• Lesson 6: The Precautionary Principle

  

  • Teacher's Guide
  • Student Worksheets

• Lesson 7: Assessing Carbon Footprints

  

  • Teacher's Guide
  • Student Readings
  • Student Handouts (Advertisements)
  • Student Worksheets
  • PowerPoint Slideshow
  • Carbon Footprints
  • Toyota Prius/Harmony
  • McDonalds
  • Coco Eco
  • Jonas Brothers
  • Buy Nothing Day

• Lesson 8: History of Global Warming in the Media

  

  • Teacher's Guide
  • Student Readings
  • PowerPoint Slideshow
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