Teaching Sustainability through Media Literacy for Young Learners 

Sox Sperry, Project Look Sharp’s primary curriculum writer, will lead participants in an engaging exploration of elements from Project Look Sharp’s lessons related to sustainability for Elementary School teachers, community educators and teachers-in-training .  These lessons will be available free and on our website this summer.

The webinar will offer educators pedagogical techniques and curriculum materials to support a deeper understanding of how to use media documents to:

• Support content teaching about water quality, climate change and hunger
• Introduce media production as a way to deepen media literacy awareness
• Encourage core subject integration of ELA, math, science and social studies.   

Aligned with media literacy goals, Sperry will analyze media texts' target audience and intended purpose, as well as cover decoding techniques.  He will explore ways to use website articles, graphs and video production as means to teach common core ELA & math skills, Next Generation Science disciplinary core ideas and C3 Social Studies concepts.

Participants will leave with handouts, lessons, and other tools to immediately integrate media literacy into curriculum design.  

Can't attend live? All of our webinars are archived and accessible on demand after the original live date.  Be sure to register to receive the viewing instructions after the live event. 

*This webinar is made available free of charge due to generous grant funding by the Park Foundation.