Visualizing the Climate Crisis
This learning activity engages students in critically analyzing climate crisis visuals, exploring the power of imagery in environmental communication through interactive tasks based on seven principles of visual climate change communication. The activity aims to enhance students’ analytical and visual storytelling skills while cultivating a sense of agency in addressing climate issues.
Deciphering Climate Disinformation
This lesson plan enhances students’ ecomedia literacy skills by teaching them to identify and analyze climate disinformation in various media sources. Through hands-on activities like group analysis, fact-checking exercises, and creative projects, students develop critical thinking skills focused on climate change communication.
Decoding Ecomedia: Unearthing Attention-Getting Hooks
This lesson plan focuses on developing students’ critical thinking skills to identify and analyze attention-getting hooks used in ecomedia.
Green or Greenwashed? Cultivating Ecomedia Literacy Skills
This lesson introduces students to the concept of greenwashing and develops their ecomedia literacy skills. Students will learn to identify various greenwashing techniques used by companies and critically evaluate environmental claims in marketing and advertising.
Ecosystem Awareness: Local Environments and Media
This learning activity aims to enhance students’ awareness of their local ecosystems and the influence of media on environmental perceptions by contrasting their familiarity with brand logos against their knowledge of local flora, ultimately cultivating a more integrated understanding of the relationship between media literacy and ecoliteracy.
Addressing “Plant Blindness” Through Reflective Reading and Creative Writing
The main focus of the learning activity is to combat “plant blindness,” a cognitive bias where people tend to overlook plants in their environment. By engaging students in reflective reading, creative writing, and hands-on plant care, the activity aims to foster empathy for plants and enhance their appreciation of the natural world.
The Natural World Speaks: Writing for the Rights of Nature
This creative writing activity prompts students to explore the Rights of Nature movement, which seeks to give natural entities legal personhood. By writing short stories or poems from the perspective of a natural entity, students will give nature a voice, reflect on environmental ethics, and consider the complex dimensions of granting nature legal rights.
Eco-Analysis of Personal Gadget
This learning activity aims to critically examine the environmental impacts of personal electronic devices through ecomedia literacy, fostering awareness of their ecological footprint and encouraging responsible usage and disposal. It highlights the importance of understanding the interconnections between digital technology and environmental sustainability within the broader context of ecomedia literacy.
Exploring Affect and Emotion: Doing a Care and Value-Based Ecomedia Analysis
This learning activity seeks to enhance ecomedia literacy by integrating critical thinking and emotional connections to media, emphasizing value-based literacy and care, fostering the creation of “brave spaces” for diverse perspectives, and promoting thoughtful media engagement through reflective practices and discussions on the alignment of media values with participants’ own.
Make a One-minute Eco-film
In this activity, students are encouraged to produce a one-minute eco-film using the “remoscope” technique, capturing a static view of something in nature. This creative exercise prompts students to contemplate how the media portrays “nature” while embracing the concept of “slow media,” fostering a deeper connection with their subject.