Credibility, evaluation of photos, assessment of students' research skills, eval of specialized sites (i.e. science) through lesson plans, rubrics, tutorials, demos. Great site, many topics and resources.
Students will become familiar with this genre and, after searching for topics of interest in the newspaper, will use an online tool to begin planning their own letter to the editor.
The mission of this organization is to assist educators in integrating media lit into instruction, help students in becoming more aware. There are standards for art, language arts, social studies. There are topics such as Media & Politics, TV Toy commercials, Magazine Retouching.
This 55 slide Power Point (Creative Commons) offers many suggestions from themes, vocabulary, character traits, bias, values, reflection, confidence/concerns and teacher syllabi.
Times puzzle master Will Shortz has edited these crossword puzzles, which are grouped by topics such as American History, Fine Arts, Language Arts, Science, Technology. Each puzzle page has links to learning more about the topic. Explore the Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals extensive image database in combination with the Rocks and Minerals crossword.
Ideas worth spreading, started with Tech, Entertainment and Design. Themes range from How the mind works, How we learn, Listening to teachers, to performances, numbers, the Creative Spark and TED in 3 minutes.