Unit: News Literacy

Click to listen to NPR's On the Media segment "On the Anti-Vax Non-troversy."

Click to read the Washington Post article "Here’s How Scientific Misinformation, Such as Climate Doubt, Spreads Through Social Media."

Click to watch the Damaon Brown TED Ed video "How To Choose Your News."

Click to watch the video "#CancelGlovenadBoots."

Click to examine blurred lines - photos during hurricane Sandy and a newslcip about deepfake videos.

Click to go to The Onion.

Click to examine native advertising and see "How to Get Great Buns."

Click for John Oliver's discussion of native advertising on Last Week Tonight.

Click to read the Time article "Oreos May Be As Addictive As Cocaine."

Click to view the graph to see who trusts the media from NPR.

Click the links to get to fact checking websites:
snopes
politifact
factcheck
truth or fiction

Click to see a man who seems to die in every terrorist attack.

Click to read the World Economic Forum article "How Does Misinformation Spread Online?"

Click to go to the Nieman Lab website where you can see "How do you tell when the news is biased? It depends on how you see yourself."

Click to test your own implicit bias with science.

Click to watch John Oliver's demonstration of fairness in the media when discussing climate change on This Week Tonight.

Click to go to the Columbia Journalism Review's discussion of The New York Post's disgrace.

Click to go to the Verification Handbook's "Educator’s Guide: Types of Online Fakes."

Click to look at the tables in First Draft News' "Fake News. It's Complicated."

Click for the Washington Post article "For The ‘New Yellow Journalist,’ Opportunity Comes in Clicks and Bucks."

Click to see Newsday's "7 Ways to Spot and Debunk Fake News."

Click to watch the CNN video "Triple Check Before You Share."

Click to see On the Media's table "Breaking News Consumer’s Handbook, Fake News Edition."

Click to see Spurious Correlations.

Click to see Ben Goldacre's TED Talk video "Battling Bad Science."

Click to learn about the importance of the "First Follower: Leadership Lesson from Dancing Guy."

Click to watch the Neil deGrasse Tyson "Science in America."

Unit 14: Sustainability

Textbook Reading
Chapter 23: Economics, Environment, and Sustainability
Chapter 24: Politics, Environment, and Sustainability
Chapter 25: Environmental Worldviews, Ethics, and Sustainability




Click to view the PowerPoint presentation lecture notes on Environmental Economics.

Click to view the PowerPoint presentation lecture notes on Politics and the Environment.

Click to view the PowerPoint presentation lecture notes on Sustainability.