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1000 youth across Canada were surveyed to learn about their experiences with casual prejudice or ‘cultures of hatred’ online

Five brand new lesson plans are now available to accompany Reality Check: our fact-checking and authentication resources which include a game, videos and tip sheets.

Dealing With Digital Stress (Grades 9-12) In this lesson, students reflect on the ways in which digital media can cause stress. Through a series of role-playing exercises, they consider how social media can cause stress by making us compare the highlights of others’ lives to the lowlights of our own, and practice strategies for coping with digital stress.

The Digital and Media Literacy Outcomes section of our website shows how our resources meet curriculum outcomes for different subjects in each province and territory.

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