Listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to explore thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences
Discover and Explore
- review, reread and reflect on oral, print and other media texts to explore, confirm or revise understanding
- discuss and respond to ways that forms of oral, print and other media texts enhance or constrain the development and communication of ideas, information and experiences
- pursue personal interest in specific genres by particular writers, artists, storytellers and filmmakers
Lessons
- Comic Book Characters
- Cop Shows
- Freedom to Smoke
- Images of Learning: Elementary
- Media Minute Lesson 3: Audiences negotiate meaning
- Media Minute Lesson 4: Media have commercial implications
- Media Minute Lesson 5: Media have social and political implications
- Put Your Best Face Forward
- Selling Obesity
- Selling Tobacco
- The Price of Happiness: On Advertising, Image, and Self Esteem
- Thinking Like a Tobacco Company: Grades 7-9
- Understanding Cyberbullying: Virtual vs. Physical Worlds
- Video Games
- Violence and Video Games
Student Tutorials (Licensed Resource)
Listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to manage ideas and information
Select and Focus
- develop and use criteria for evaluating the usefulness, currency and reliability of information for a particular research project
Lessons
- Deconstructing Web Pages
- Media Minute Lesson 3: Audiences negotiate meaning
- Media Minute Lesson 4: Media have commercial implications
- Media Minute Lesson 5: Media have social and political implications
Backgrounders
Educational Game
Student Tutorials (Licensed Resource)
Listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to respect, support and collaborate with others
Respect Others and Strengthen Community
- compare own with others’ understanding of people, cultural traditions and values portrayed in oral, print and other media texts
- clarify and broaden perspectives and opinions, by examining the ideas of others
- compare ways in which oral, print and other media texts reflect specific elements of cultures or periods in history
Lessons
- Bias in the News
- Media Minute Lesson 4: Media have commercial implications
- Media Minute Lesson 5: Media have social and political implications
- Put Your Best Face Forward
- The Girl in the Mirror
- The Price of Happiness: On Advertising, Image, and Self Esteem
Student Tutorials (Licensed Resource)