This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the New Brunswick Grade 8 Health Education curriculum with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
Caring for Yourself, Your Family and Your Community
It is expected that students will:
- identify and describe how to promote safety and prevent injury or illness
Lessons
- Deconstructing Web Pages
- Online Marketing to Kids: Strategies and Techniques
- Online Marketing to Kids: Protecting Your Privacy
- Thinking About Hate
- What Students Need to Know about Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy
- Who Knows? Your Privacy in the Information Age
Use, Misuse and Abuse of Materials (emphasizing Media Literacy)
It is expected that students will:
- understand what an addiction is and how it can make a person keep doing something unhealthy or destructive
Lessons
- Gender and Tobacco
- Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
- Image Gap
- 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
- Mirror Image
- Selling Tobacco
- Thinking Like a Tobacco Company
- Tobacco Labels
- Truth or Money
Growth and Development
It is expected that students will:
- 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)
- Exposing Gender Stereotypes
- Gender and Tobacco
- Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
- Learning Gender Stereotypes
- Media Minute Lesson 4: Media have commercial implications
- Put Your Best Face Forward
- That’s Not Cool
- The Impact of Gender Stereotypes
- Understanding Cyberbullying: Virtual vs. Physical Worlds