Managing Information and Ideas

Overall Expectations

Information-management skills enable students to access, select, organize, and record information and ideas, using a variety of sources, tools, and technologies. These skills include inquiry and research skills that enhance historical and geographical thinking.

Specific Expectations

Students will…

• Gather information from oral, visual, material, or print sources.
• Use tools and technologies to accomplish given tasks.

Lessons

Comparing Real Families to TV Families

Facing TV Violence: Consequences and Media Violence

Facing TV Violence: Counting & Discussing Violence on the Screen

Facing TV Violence: Rewriting the Script

Humour on Television

Introducing TV Families

Looking at Newspapers: Introduction

Newspaper Ads

Packaging Tricks

Prejudice and Body Image

Privacy Playground

Sheroes and Heroes

Teaching TV: Critically Evaluating TV

Teaching TV: Enjoying Television

Teaching TV: Film Production: Who Does What?

Teaching TV: Learning With Television

Teaching TV: Television as a Story Teller

Teaching TV: Television Techniques

The Broadcast Project

TV Stereotypes

Villains, Heroes and Heroines

Can You Spot the Ad?

So Many Choices!

Adversmarts: Introduction to Food Advertising Online

Healthy Food Web