Outcome Chart - British Columbia - Social Studies Grade 6

This outcome chart contains media education learning outcomes from the British Columbia, Grade 6 Social Studies curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

It is expected that students will:

Curricular Competencies

Students will develop competencies needed to be active, informed citizens:

Use Social Studies inquiry processes (ask questions, gather, interpret and analyze ideas, and communicate findings and decisions)
Determine what is significant in an account, narrative, map, or text (significance)
Assess and compare the significance of people, places, events, and/or developments over time and place (significance)
corroborate inferences about the content and origins of multiple sources (evidence)
Recognize the positive and negative aspects of continuities and changes for different groups in the past and present (continuity and change)
Determine the long- and short-term causes and the intended and unintended consequences of an event, decision, or development (cause and consequence)
Explain different perspectives on a past or present event or issue, including how changing values, worldviews, and beliefs have influenced perspectives (perspective)
Recognize and classify different value judgments, including ethical judgments, in a variety of sources (ethical judgment)

MediaSmarts Resources

Advertising All Around Us

Avatars and Body Image

Behaving Ethically Online: Ethics and Empathy

Creating a Marketing Frenzy

Earth Day: Maps as Media

Elections and the Media

Girls and Boys on Television

Introduction to Ethics: Avatars and Identity

Looking at Food Advertising

Media Kids

Media literacy key concepts Introduction: What is media anyway?