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Wind Farm Site Selection: A Community Debates the Issues
Provided by: Project Look Sharp |Published on: April 27, 2021
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Synopsis
- This is a 15-30 minute media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students analyze two opinion articles on wind farm sites in local communities.
- Students discuss the different messages from the different sources informing others about a potential wind farm in the town of Enfield, NY.
- This resource includes a PDF lesson plan, a student handout, and a guide with tips for teaching and adapting the lesson.
Subjects: Science, Economics, English Language Arts
Authors: Project Look Sharp, Laurie VanVleet & Sox Sperry
Region: North America, United States, Central & Western NY
Languages: English
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Positives
- The lesson plan offers many possible variations depending on your focus, including questions for Science, Social Studies, ELA, and Media Literacy.
Additional Prerequisites
- Teachers must create a free account to access the materials.
- The worksheet asks students about the reliability of the sources they are given, so you will need to provide instruction on how they can determine this.
- Be sure you have researched the sources ahead of time so you are aware of their viewpoints and biases.
- The link to Black Oak Wind Farm in the student handout is broken.
Differentiation
- The lesson plan refers to a "constructivist media decoding process," which teachers can read more about in the Tips for Media Decoding document.
- Teachers may want to use some process or protocol where students are responding to questions individually and in small groups before discussing them as a whole class.
- The reading for this activity may be dense for some students, so a structured reading process may provide the necessary support.
- Another resource related to this topic is this interactive map with the locations of all wind power plants in the United States.
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Project Look Sharp
Project Look Sharp is a nonprofit, mission-driven outreach program of Ithaca College. Their mission is to help K-16 educators enhance students' critical thinking, metacognition, and civic engagement through media literacy materials and professional development.
All resources can be used for your educational purposes with proper attribution to the content provider.
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