The first part of the guide has suggested learning activities to prepare students to understand the movie at a deeper level: ⇒ thinking about satire and its uses in addressing various political issues ⇒ thinking about the different kinds of underlying political/economic frameworks—conservative, liberal, and left—people can use to make sense of what is going on in the world. The second part of the guide focuses on student reactions to the film, student reflections on some of the major themes in the film: ⇒ media literacy ⇒ the real-world consequences of an unfettered free-market world-view ⇒ whose intellectual work ’counts’ as worth considering in fixing the world The entire guide focuses on motivating student involvement with existing social change groups in a process of fixing some small piece of their world.

Buy, Use, Toss? A Closer Look at the Things We Buy is an interdisciplinary unit that includes ten fully-planned lessons.

In this free one-day activity students use political cartoons to consider issues raised by the 2010 oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico including impact, accountability, U.S.