Curricular Competencies
Students will be able to use the creative process to create and respond to the arts:
Exploring and creating
Intentionally select and apply materials, environments, tools, and principles to combine and arrange artistic elements, processes, and techniques in art making
Create artistic works collaboratively and as an individual using ideas inspired by imagination, inquiry, experimentation, and purposeful play
Explore relationships between identity, place, culture, society, and belonging through the arts
Demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of personal, social, cultural, and historical contexts in relation to the arts
MediaSmarts Resources
- Avatars and Body Image
- Comic Book Characters
- Cop Shows
- Earth Day: Maps as Media
- Elections and the Media
- Female Action Heroes
- Images of Learning
- Looking at Food Advertising
- Looks Good Enough to Eat
- Media literacy key concepts lesson 6: Each medium is a unique aesthetic form
- Online Marketing to Kids: Strategies and Techniques
- Teaching TV: Film Production: Who Does What?
- Tobacco Labels
- TV Stereotypes
- You’ve Gotta Have a Gimmick
Reasoning and reflecting
Research, describe, interpret, and evaluate how artists use tools, processes, materials, and environments
Develop and refine ideas, processes, and technical skills to improve the quality of artistic creations
Interpret creative works using knowledge and skills from various subject areas
Reflect on works of art and the creative process to understand artists’ motivations and meanings
MediaSmarts Resources
- Cop Shows
- Creating a Marketing Frenzy
- Earth Day: Maps as Media
- Elections and the Media
- Girls and Boys on Television
- How to Analyze the News
- Looking at Food Advertising
- 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 5: Media have social and political implications
- Media literacy key concepts lesson 6: Each medium is a unique aesthetic form
- Online Marketing to Kids: Strategies and Techniques
- Reporter For a Day
- Teaching TV: Film Production: Who Does What?
- The Anatomy of Cool
- The Constructed World of Television Families
- Video Production of a Newscast
- Who’s on First? Alcohol Advertising and Sports
- Writing a Newspaper Article
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
Take creative risks to express feelings, ideas, and experiences
Describe, interpret, and respond to works to explore artists’ intent
Experience, document, perform, and share creative works in a variety of ways
MediaSmarts Resources
- Advertising All Around Us
- Avatars and Body Image
- Comic Book Characters
- Cop Shows
- Creating a Marketing Frenzy
- Earth Day: Maps as Media
- Elections and the Media
- Facing TV Violence: Rewriting the Script
- Female Action Heroes
- Freedom to Smoke
- Girls and Boys on Television
- Humour on Television
- Images of Learning
- Junk Food Jungle
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 1: Messages About Drinking
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 2: Young Drinkers
- Looking at Food Advertising
- Looks Good Enough to Eat
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 4: Media have commercial implications
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 5: Media have social and political implications
- Media literacy key concepts lesson 6: Each medium is a unique aesthetic form
- Mirror Image
- Online Marketing to Kids: Protecting Your Privacy
- Online Marketing to Kids: Strategies and Techniques
- Prejudice and Body Image
- Scientific Detectives
- Stereotyping and Bias
- Taking Charge of TV Violence
- Teaching TV: Film Production: Who Does What?
- The True Story
- Tobacco Labels
- TV Dads: Immature and Irresponsible?
- Video Production of a Newscast
- Violence in Sports
- Writing a Newspaper Article
- You’ve Gotta Have a Gimmick
Content
Students will know and understand the following Content:
purposeful application of elements and principles to 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, unity/variety, and harmony)
- 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 national and international works of art and artistic traditions from diverse cultures, communities, times, and places, including traditional and contemporary Aboriginal arts and arts-making processes
- ethical issues and personal responsibility associated with creating and performing in the arts
MediaSmarts Resources
- Avatars and Body Image
- Cop Shows
- Female Action Heroes
- Freedom to Smoke
- Girls and Boys on Television
- Image Gap
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 2: Young Drinkers
- 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 5: Media have social and political implications
- Media literacy key concepts lesson 6: Each medium is a unique aesthetic form
- Mirror Image
- Prejudice and Body Image
- Put Downs
- Stereotyping and Bias
- Taking Charge of TV Violence
- The True Story
- Thinking Like a Tobacco Company: Grades 4-6
- Tobacco Labels
- TV Dads: Immature and Irresponsible?
- Up, Up and Away? (TM)
- Villains, Heroes and Heroines
- Violence in Sports
- What’s in a Word?