Creative/Productive (CP)

Overall Expectations

Students will inquire, create, and communicate through dance, drama, music, and visual art.

Specific Expectations

CP9.6 Express perspectives and raise awareness about a topic of concern to youth in a collective creation.

CP9.10 Create visual art works to express perspectives and raise awareness about a topic of concern to youth.

MediaSmarts Resources

Lessons

Alcohol Myths

Gender and Tobacco

Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising

Online Marketing to Kids: Strategies and Techniques

The Price of Happiness

Thinking Like a Citizen

Tobacco Labels

Watching the Elections

Writing a Newspaper Article

Critical/Responsive

Overall Expectations

Students will respond to artistic expressions of Saskatchewan, Canadian, and International artists using critical thinking, research, creativity, and collaborative inquiry.

Specific Expectations

CR9.1 Respond to professional dance, drama, music, and visual art works through individual or collaborative inquiry and the creation of own arts expressions.

CR9.2 Investigate and identify ways that today’s arts expressions can inspire change.

CR9.3 Investigate and identify how arts expressions can challenge thinking about values, ideas, and beliefs.

MediaSmarts Resources

Lessons

Beyond Media Messages: Media Portrayal of Global Development

Bias and Crime in Media

Bias in News Sources

Celebrities and World Issues

Challenging Hate Online

Crime in the News

Crime Perceptions Quiz

Diversity and Media Ownership

Exposing Gender Stereotypes

Finding and Authenticating Online Information on Global Development Issues

Hate 2.0

Hate or Debate

Individuality vs. Conformity

Kellogg Special K Ads

Marketing to Teens: Talking Back

Miscast and Seldom Seen

Perceptions of Youth and Crime

Scapegoating and Othering

Shaking the Movers: Youth Rights and Media

The Citizen Reporter

The Girl in the Mirror

Thinking about Hate

Thinking Like a Citizen

Watching the Elections

Who’s Telling My Story?

You Be the Editor

Cultural/Historical

Overall Expectations

Students will investigate the content and aesthetics of the arts within cultural, historical, and contemporary contexts and understand the connection between the arts and human experience.

Specific Expectations

CH9.1 Investigate and discuss the role of artists in raising awareness or taking action on topics of concern.

CH9.2 Use the arts to raise awareness on topics of concern to Indigenous artists in dance, drama, music, and visual arts.

CH9.3 Investigate diversity of artistic ideas, styles, and media in contemporary arts expressions.

MediaSmarts Resources

Lessons

Beyond Media Messages: Media Portrayal of Global Development

Bias and Crime in Media

Bias in News Sources

Celebrities and World Issues

Challenging Hate Online

Crime in the News

Crime Perceptions Quiz

Diversity and Media Ownership

Exposing Gender Stereotypes

Finding and Authenticating Online Information on Global Development Issues

Hate 2.0

Hate or Debate

Individuality vs. Conformity

Kellogg Special K Ads

Marketing to Teens: Talking Back

Miscast and Seldom Seen

Perceptions of Youth and Crime

Scapegoating and Othering

Shaking the Movers: Youth Rights and Media

The Citizen Reporter

The Girl in the Mirror

Thinking about Hate

Thinking Like a Citizen

Watching the Elections

Who’s Telling My Story?

You Be the Editor