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Media Literacy Lesson Plans, Curriculum, Books, Videos, and other teaching resources

Where can you find the best teaching and learning materials for media education? These organizations have excellent materials.

Your first stop should be TeachMediaLiteracy.org, the online Markeplace of the National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) The only comprehensive online catalog of teaching resources for media literacy education, TeachMediaLiteracy.org has more than 100 books, DVDs, teaching kits and more on all topics and for all grade levels, pre-K to college.

The Media Education Lab at Temple University, Philadelphia, Penn. is an outstanding resource, "one of the leading providers of multimedia curriculum resources for K-12 media literacy education." They have an extensive collection of free resources, including the Code of Best Practices for Fair Use in Media Literacy Education, lesson plans, curricula and more.

Media Education Foundation Leading-edge resources, primarily for older teens, college-age and adults. MEF videos and study guides address important topics not usually covered in K-12 materials, such as gender roles and sexism in the media, global corporatization of media, commercialism and consumer culture, media portrayals of race and sexual orientation, media violence, alternative viewpoints, and much more. Powerful stuff, not for the faint-hearted. Highly recommended.

Media Literacy Project (formerly New Mexico Media Literacy Project).   Innovative CD-ROM teaching resources, study guides and other materials, primarily around media influence on young people through advertising. Also new K-12 curriculum materials. Titles include Hands-On Media Literacy: Valuable Skills for Teens and Young Learners; Blowing Away Big Tobacco's Big Lies: Media Literacy for Tobacco Prevention; and Media Literacy for Health: A K-12 Activity Curriculum.

Center for Media Literacy is a consulting company built on the foundation of the former non-profit of the same name. The company's website still has an extensive, free Reading Room, including articles from all back issues of Media&Values, the first U.S. periodical to examine media and its impact on our lives. Download parts of the MediaLit Kit ™ , their proprietary guidebook on how to teach media literacy.

National Institute on Media and the Family This organization sadly closed down at the end of 2009. Its excellent parent- and family-oriented books, videos, curriculum kits and the MediaWise Certification Program for parents and schools will be transferred to the Search Institute sometime in 2010.