Media & Consumerism

Media & Consumerism is a K-12 curriculum that explores how corporations market consumerism as a value and how the consumption of material goods impacts our world.

The student-centered curriculum includes media examples and hands-on activities. Students build critical thinking skills by analyzing and evaluating media messages, discovering the untold stories and applying their knowledge to create their own media.

What’s on the CD?

• 43 media examples from TV, magazines, internet articles, and graphs.
• Hands-on activities and classroom discussion to build critical thinking skills in subjects including language arts, science, health, social studies, and technology.

Topics include:

• Reducing, Reusing and Recycling
• Product Placement
• The Role of Nature in the Media  
• Spending, Saving, and Borrowing
• The Price of Fashion
• And more!

Learners will:

• Understand how they are impacted by name brands and marketing.
• Understand vocabulary terms related to consumerism and the environment.
• Deconstruct media examples to learn how the American lifestyle impacts our world.
• Gain an awareness of product placement in movies and TV.

This CD is part of the Media Literacy for Success Series.

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