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Provided by: Project Look Sharp |Published on: April 27, 2021
Lesson Plans
6-AP
Synopsis
In this media literacy activity, students will watch two hip-hop music videos on climate change activism and analyze the videos' messages and approaches to educating viewers.
This resource includes a teacher guide, a lesson plan, and two video clips.
The lesson plan offers discussion questions for several academic subjects.
The media literacy questions require students to think critically about their own biases.
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This handout will help students determine if the sources are reliable.
Differentiation
Music classes could use these videos in a lesson on political music.
After discussing the pros and cons of the two videos, students could write, rehearse, and record their own climate change music videos.
Because the music videos were produced in 2011 and 2009, it might be interesting for students to compare them to more modern climate change music videos such as Prince EA's video.
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Project Look Sharp
Project Look Sharp is a nonprofit, mission-driven outreach program of Ithaca College. Their mission is to help K-16 educators enhance students' critical thinking, metacognition, and civic engagement through media literacy materials and professional development.
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