English Language Arts Grades 7-9

This video provides five tips that can help you spot fake news and weed out the real from the completely made up. Below the synopsis is a link to an article with more information.

This collection of useable lesson plans and assignments focuses on information fluency - learning how to use and evaluate information.

The Crash Course YouTube channel has a playlist for their series about media literacy. There is a quick preview video plus twelve videos that address various topics related to media literacy.

This resource focuses on ideology, political power, and rights and freedoms in a democratic society.

This 2-minute video has tips for students that are reading information or doing research online.

This is a collection of engaging "missions" during which students read a story on a social network feed; the story might be entirely true, entirely false, or somewhere in between.

This is a collection of engaging "missions" during which students read a story on a social network feed; the story might be entirely true, entirely false, or somewhere in between.

This video explores how colors, camera angles and logos in the media can all prompt viewers to make associations with their own emotions and memories. Learn to decode this intricate system of symbols from advertising messages to traffic signs.

This video explores how some people's beliefs, emotions and natural biases affect their response to facts or data that contradict those beliefs. This video from 'Social Good Now' presents some ideas for encouraging rational discussion.