Curricular Competencies
Students will be able to use the creative process to create and respond to the arts:
Exploring and creating
Intentionally select artistic elements, processes, materials, environments, tools, and techniques to express meaning in their work
Create artistic works collaboratively and as an individual using ideas inspired by imagination, inquiry, experimentation, and purposeful play
Explore connections to identity, place, culture, and belonging through creative expression
Explore a range of cultures and the relationships among cultures, societies, and the arts
MediaSmarts Resources
- Avatars and Body Image
- Comic Book Characters
- Elections and the Media
- Humour on Television
- Introducing TV Families
- Looks Good Enough to Eat
- Media Kids
- Media literacy key concepts lesson 6: Each medium is a unique aesthetic form
- The Hero Project: Authenticating Online Information
- TV Stereotypes
- You’ve Gotta Have a Gimmick
Reasoning and reflecting
Observe, listen, describe, inquire, and predict how artists use tools, processes, materials, techniques, and environments to create and communicate
Develop and refine ideas, processes, and technical skills to improve the quality of artistic creations
Reflect on the creative process as an individual and as a group, and make connections to other experiences
Connect knowledge and skills from other subject areas in planning, creating, interpreting, and analyzing works of art
MediaSmarts Resources
- Comparing Real Families to TV Families
- Earth Day: Maps as Media
- Girls and Boys on Television
- Media Kids
- Media literacy key concepts Introduction: What is media anyway?
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 2: Media are constructions
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 3: Audiences negotiate meaning
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 4: Media have commercial implications
- Media literacy key concepts lesson 6: Each medium is a unique aesthetic form
- Reporter For a Day
- The Anatomy of Cool
- The Constructed World of Television Families
- TV Stereotypes
- Villains, Heroes and Heroines
- You’ve Gotta Have a Gimmick
Communicating and documenting
Adapt learned skills, understandings, and processes for use in new contexts and for different purposes and audiences
Interpret and communicate ideas using symbols and elements to express meaning through the arts
Express feelings, ideas, and experiences through the arts
Describe and respond to works of art and explore artists’ intent
Experience, document, perform, and share creative works in a variety of ways
MediaSmarts Resources
- Avatars and Body Image
- Comic Book Characters
- Elections and the Media
- Humour on Television
- Introducing TV Families
- Looks Good Enough to Eat
- Media Kids
- Media literacy key concepts lesson 6: Each medium is a unique aesthetic form
- The Hero Project: Authenticating Online Information
- TV Stereotypes
- You’ve Gotta Have a Gimmick
Content
Students will know and understand the following Content:
elements and principles that together create meaning in the arts, including but not limited to:
- drama: relationships, role, setting, and character through space, action, mood, and vocalizations
- visual art: line, shape, space, texture, colour, form, tone, principles of design (pattern, repetition, balance, contrast, emphasis, rhythm, and unity/variety)
materials, tools, strategies, techniques, and technologies to support the creative process
notation to represent ideas, elements, and actions
symbols and metaphors to explore ideas and perspectives
a variety of regional and national works of art and artistic traditions from diverse cultures, communities, times, and places, including traditional and contemporary Aboriginal arts and arts-making processes
MediaSmarts Resources