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Viral News: Media Literacy for the 21st Century

Science Scope—Summer 2012

The authors present a lesson designed to address the 21st-century skills of information and media literacy in the context of science issues. This lesson was embedded in a full unit focused on viruses and vaccines at the eighth-grade level.

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