Teaching Resources

The Media Education Lab is one of the leading providers of multimedia curriculum resources for K-12 media literacy education. Take advantage of our extensive collection of free resources below:



  • Copyright Clarity: How Fair Use Supports Digital Learning By Renee Hobbs
  • Lesson plans and materials to help you teach about copyright and fair use
  • Renee Hobbs and her colleagues at the Media Education Lab developed the Digital Workshops for Parents and Educators as part of Frontline's "Digital Nation," premiering February 2, 2010.
  • My Pop Studio is an online creative play experience for girls ages 9 - 14 that promotes media literacy with edutainment gaming. Girls can: Create a pop star and reflect on…
  • A university-school partnership program brings digital and media literacy to K-12 schools
  • The Media Education Lab team created this dynamic multimedia curriculum including lesson plans, three videos and an online quiz that measures youth civic engagement.  These lessons show educators how to…
  • Finally, the comprehensive three-volume curriculum created by Renee Hobbs is available online.  This is the 18-unit curriculum developed for Maryland State Department of Education and Discovery Communications, Inc.   You can download the PDF files…
  • Elements of Language (Holt, Rinehart and Winston) is the first English language arts textbook to fully incorporate media literacy throughout the series for students in grades 6 -12.  Chapters introduce…
  • Check out our lesson plans for teachers and an interactive quiz for parents encourage reflection and analysis of the Frontline film, "Growing Up Online."  Renee Hobbs and Kelly Mendoza developed materials…
  • How discerning are you when it comes to analyzing news and entertainment?  Take this quiz!
  • Curriculum Resources from the Youth Media Workshop for Iranian American Youth, held in Philadelphia from August 3 - 7, 2009 at the Asian Arts Initiative. See the lesson plans and…
  • This curriculum with video clips promotes critical analysis of non-fiction television for students in grades 6 - 12 and demonstrates simple but powerful learning activities that help build critical thinking…
  • The Media Education Lab works to explore how media literacy can be used as a means to promote global understanding.
  • MacNeil Lehrer Productions has created short video that features Renee Hobbs on how media literacy can be used to address the prescription drug industry's messages that influence people to seek…
  • Developed in collaboration with the Newspaper Association of America, Messages & Meanings is a collection of curriculum activities for analyzing print and electronic media. This resource includes instructional activities for…
  • This skills builder includes tools for analyzing the media, understanding advertising, understanding media ownership, and issues of representation.
  • Exploring News and Journalism in a School-Community Partnership with PBS News Hour Extra  
  • SNAPS photo cards are an easy-to-use set of 30 large cardboard cards depicting a variety of  different types of television programs.   Finally-- a flexible teaching resource for children! They're…
  • The STAND (Students Taking Action, Not Drugs) project invites young people to use the power of mass media to design, create and deliver meaningful messages to help other teens resist…
  • Renee Hobbs and a team of Pennsylvania educators developed The Media Straight Up to bring together literacy and substance abuse prevention goals for middle-school students.  The curriculum meets PA standards…