Brigham Young University's Media Education Database

This unit was designed to be adaptable to any subject. It is expected that you will adapt the lessons to your needs, goals, and time requirements. Materials needed are designed to be very general so you may substitute examples appropriate to your specific needs.

Lesson 1. Define media, text, and literacy. As a class develop definitions for media, text, and literacy.

Lesson 2. Questioning media. Help students begin to ask questions about media.

Lesson 3. Create media using A.D.D.I.E. This acronym is part of state requirements and state testing.

Lesson 4. Production Basics. Help students begin to produce media using A.D.D.I.E.

Lesson 5. A.D.D.I.E. / Production. Students work on individual projects.

Lesson 6. Production. Students work on group projects.

Lesson 7. Question media products. Use material from lesson 2 to have students critique their own work. Included with these lesson plans are the “Utah State Multimedia Standards” and “The Core Principles of Media Education” from The Alliance for a Media Literate America. They provided the curriculum goals for this unit.

“The purpose of media literacy education is to help individuals of all ages develop the habits of inquiry and skills of expression that they need to be critical thinkers, effective communicators and active citizens in today’s world.” -The Alliance for a Media Literate America.