Project Look Sharp:Media Construction of Slickwater

Hydrofracturing

April 2011LSTA Presentation

Molly Trufant & Glenn CaslickNewfield High School

Newfield, New York

Goals of Our APP To make strong sense critical thinking a habit

of our students in a media-oriented world.

To prepare students to be effective managers and informed stewards of our natural resources.

To make students aware of a local “hot topic” in Environmental Science that will inevitably affect their lives.

Goals of Our APP To create a group of concerned young citizens.

To foster sustainable outlooks and ways of living for our students.

To reinforce the mentality that “we all live downstream.”

To create a lesson kit with Project LookSharp about Slickwater Hydrofracking, and make it accessible to teachers across New York State.

Goals of Our APP To give students the opportunity to

create and present a persuasive piece of media according to an assigned role.

To encourage students to be conscious of their audience, principles of media construction, and their intended message as they prepare their media.

Context 2 sections of high school Environmental

Science› Juniors and Seniors (one freshman!)› Elective course, 40 weeks› No “formal” curriculum standards› Issues-oriented› Already incorporated media literacy during

introduction to the course› Weekly media-based assignments

(journals)

Lessons #1: The Love Canal Tragedy & Water

Pollution in Dimock, Pennsylvania: Lesson Learned? (Journal #15)

#2: Drive-by Dispatches: Deep Readings of Yard Signs About Fracking

#3: Impart In Print: Decoding Print Media from a Public Forum about Fracking

Lessons #4: What is Slickwater Hydrofracking?

(PPT & YouTube videos)

#5: This Land Is Our Land, This Land is Gas Land: GasLand Documentary Viewing and Deep Reading of DVD Cover

#6: Down There In the Delaware: Will Fracking Affect NYC’s Source of Drinking Water? (WebQuest)

Lessons #6: “On Fracking and Human Folly”

(Journal #16)

#7: Commissioner Grannis’s Testimony

#8: Leasing Language: Comparing the Language in a Gas Drilling Lease versus an Apartment Lease

Lessons #9: This Rock Could Power the

World (TIME Magazine): Letters to the Editor (This lesson was REQUESTED by our students!)

#10: Final Project: Land Use Role Play

Lesson #1: Lesson Learned?

Lesson #2: Drive-by Dispatches

Lesson #3: Impart In Print Decoding print media from a recent

public forum about Hydrofracking

Lesson #3: Impart In Print

Lesson #3: Impart in Print

Lesson #4: What is Slickwater Hydrofracking?

Lesson #4: What is Slickwater Hydrofracking?

Lesson #4: What is Slickwater Hydrofracking?

Lesson #5: This Land is Our Land, This Land is GasLand…

Lesson #6: “On Fracking and Human Folly”

Required Materials Access to Internet (for prep. AND class

time; including YouTube)

Print media from both sides of the issue

GasLand DVD