Outcome Chart - British Columbia - Social Studies Grade 9

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the British Columbia, Grade 8 Social Studies curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

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)
Assess and compare the significance of people, places, events, and developments over time and place, and determine what they reveal about issues in the past and present (significance)
Ask questions and corroborate inferences about the content, origins, purposes, and context of multiple sources (evidence)
Compare and contrast continuities and changes for different groups across different periods of time and space (continuity and change)
Determine and assess the long- and short-term causes and consequences and the intended and unintended consequences of an event, decision, or development (cause and consequence)
Explain different perspectives on past or present people, places, issues and events, and distinguish between worldviews of today and the past (perspective)
Recognize implicit and explicit ethical judgments in a variety of sources (ethical judgment)
Make reasoned ethical judgments about controversial actions in the past and present after considering the context and standards of right and wrong (ethical judgment)

MediaSmarts Resources

Authentication Beyond the Classroom

Beyond Media Messages: Media Portrayal of Global Development

Bias and Crime in Media

Bias in News Sources

Celebrities and World Issues

Cyberbullying and the Law

Deconstructing Web Pages

Diversity and Media Ownership

Exposing Gender Stereotypes

Finding and Authenticating Online Information on Global Development Issues

First Person