This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the New Brunswick Grade 7 Health Education curriculum with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
Personal Wellness
It is expected that students will:
- identify strategies for promoting their own wellness
- describe the process required to implement and evaluate a change that improves student wellness in school
Lessons
- Comic Book Characters
- Cyberbullying and Civic Participation
- Cyberbullying and the Law
- Deconstructing Web Pages
- Gender and Tobacco
- Gender Stereotypes and Body Image
- Gender Stereotypes and Body Image
- Junk Food Jungle
- Looks Good Enough to Eat
- Media Kids
- Online Marketing to Kids: Protecting Your Privacy
- Online Marketing to Kids: Strategies and Techniques
- Prejudice and Body Image
- Promoting Ethical Behaviour Online: Our Values and Ethics
- Put Your Best Face Forward
- Taking Charge of TV Violence
- That’s Not Cool
- The Anatomy of Cool
- Violence and Video Games
- Violence in Sports
- What Students Need to Know about Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy
- You’ve Gotta Have a Gimmick
Growth and Development
It is expected that students will:
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understand the role of the media in establishing feelings and attitudes about ourselves and relationships with others, including dating and becoming sexually active
Lessons
- Cyberbullying and Civic Participation
- Cyberbullying and the Law (Grades 7 - 8)
- Put Your Best Face Forward
- That’s Not Cool
- Understanding Cyberbullying: Virtual vs. Physical Worlds
Use, Misuse and Abuse of Materials (emphasizing Media Literacy)
It is expected that students will:
- identify and analyse influences, especially from peers and media/promotions, that impact on choices regarding healthy or unhealthy behaviours (eg. smoking, drinking, dieting)
Lessons
- Gender and Tobacco
- Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
- Image Gap
- Junk Food Jungle
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Interpreting Media Messages
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Messages About Drinking
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Understanding Brands
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Young Drinkers
- Looks Good Enough to Eat
- Media Minute Lesson 3: Audiences negotiate meaning
- Media Minute Lesson 4: Media have commercial implications
- Mirror Image
- Put Your Best Face Forward
- Selling Tobacco
- That’s Not Cool
- Thinking Like a Tobacco Company
- Tobacco Labels
- Truth or Money
Student Tutorials (Licensed Resource)