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Talking to Kids about the News
Age by age insights, discussion starters, and ideas for verbal and non-verbal play to help parents talk about current events – including distressing ones – with kids.
Tips for parents and teachers, student projects, and more to help kids deal with and move beyond tragedy.
With sections covering difficult topics like terrorism, sex, violence, and HIV/AIDS, this site offers tips, advice, and discussion starters for talking to kids.
Media Literacy
A media self-quiz, activity ideas, and extensive resource list of PBS programming, research, and organizations focusing on media literacy.
Discover how TV, movies, advertising, computers and video games can shape your child's development and what you can do to create a media-literate household.
This non-profit organization offers a large number of parent and teacher media literacy resources, organized by subject matter and grade level, in its online catalog. Some of the resources are available online free of charge, while others are for sale.
Designed for kids ages 9-11, this site showcases tricks used in advertising, modeling and in the entertainment world to make goods – and people – attractive and glamorous.
News Reporting
This companion Web site to the PBS series LOCAL NEWS contains discussions of many important issues influencing the reporting of the televised news.
Take a look at factors that influence which stories make it to the front page, how the media is being consolidated into the hands of a few and how credible the news media are today.
Media Utilization in the Classroom
Tips, strategies, and best practices for using video in the classroom.
Tips, strategies, and best practices for using the Internet in the classroom.
A Canadian non-profit organization promoting media education. Their web site provides extensive media and web literacy resources, including lesson plans.
This report focuses on key questions concerning the relationship of television to learning, and provides examples drawn from current television research to demonstrate television’s effect on student achievement.
Other Online News Sites for Kids
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