Climate Change, Biodiversity and Magazine Cover Priorities

Positives

• This would serve as an effective hook or introductory activity for a lesson on media literacy, bias, or social media literacy.
• This activity will likely prompt a rich discussion with students and could encourage them to consider who decides what news they receive.

Additional Prerequisites

• Students should be familiar with various new outlets and the motivations for decisions in profit-based businesses.

Differentiation

• Before completing this activity, it may be effective to ask students where they get their news and what they like reading about.
• Address the fact that this example is older and ask students if they think editorial choices change in an environment where many individuals get their news from social media.
• As an extension activity, try to find additional examples where the same news piece is presented in different ways to different audiences.