Teachers' Hub
Welcome to the Media Literacy Week Teachers' Hub, brought to you by MediaSmarts!
With free, tested lesson plans and resources curated around five daily themes, it’s never been easier for you to bring digital media literacy into the classroom.
Plug-and-Play Video Lessons:
Less prep, more learning
Led by MediaSmarts experts, these featured lessons cover topics like online hate, body image and identifying what’s real online. They can be presented on a screen or digital whiteboard with minimal preparation and include additional activities. Find these plug and play lessons below.
Daily lesson ideas for Media Literacy Week
October 27
Algorithms and AI Literacy
Plug and Play Video Lesson: Grades 9-12: Unpacking the Black Box: Explaining Algorithms and AI (** video to come)
Printable Activity: #ForYou: A Game About Algorithms
Grades K-3: Wacky Media Songs: Reading Media (English only)
Grades 6-9: Understanding artificial intelligence (AI) tools
Grades 9-12: #For You: The Algorithm Game
More resources:
October 28
Break the Fake: Verifying online information
Plug and Play Video Lesson: Break the Fake: What’s real online? (Grades 3-5)
Printable Activity: Spot the house hippos
Grades K-3: Break the Fake: What’s in the frame?
Grades 7-9: Do sharks love ice cream?
Grades 10-12: Break the Fake: Becoming a fact-checker
More resources:
Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum – workshop, lessons and videos
October 29
Digital Citizen Day: Teaching digital citizenship
Plug and Play Video Lesson: Thinking about Hate (Grades 8-10)
Printable Activity: Just a Joke? (Grades 3-7)
Grades K to 3: Wacky Media Songs: Ethics and Empathy (English only)
Grades 4-6: Behaving Ethically Online: Ethics and Empathy
Grades 7-9: Impact! How to Make a Difference When You Witness Bullying Online (Plug and Play Video Lesson)
Grades 9-12: Introduction to Online Community Engagement
More resources
October 30
Media-making and creating
Plug and Play Lesson: Put Your Best Face Forward (Grades 7-9)
Grades K-3: Wacky Media Songs: Making and Remixing (English only)
October 31
Representation in media + Halloween!
Printable Activity: A Princess Story (Grades 2-6)
Grades K-3: What do Halloween costumes say?
Grades 4-6: Avatars and body image
Grades 5-7: Comic Books Characters
Looking for more resources?
USE, UNDERSTAND & CREATE: A Digital Literacy Framework for Canadian Schools
USE, UNDERSTAND & CREATE provides a road map for teaching digital literacy skills in Canadian schools. The framework draws on seven key aspects of digital literacy – ethics and empathy, privacy and security, community engagement, digital health, consumer awareness, finding and verifying and making and remixing – and provides teachers with supporting lessons and interactive resources that are linked to curriculum outcomes for every province and territory.
Digital and Media Literacy Outcomes by Province & Territory
This web section provides detailed information on media education for each province and territory, information on provincial/territorial media education organizations, and a listing of media education curricular outcomes, by grade, with links to supporting MediaSmarts resources.