Overall Expectations: Listening and Speaking
- Learners will communicate effectively and clearly respecting cultural contexts.
Specific Expectations:
- Explain ideas and opinions with supporting details, and respond to others’ questions and ideas.
MediaSmarts Resources
- Behaving Ethically Online: Ethics and Empathy
- Comic Book Characters
- Cyber Choices (licensed resource)
- Girls and Boys on Television
- Introducing TV Families
- Introduction to Ethics: Avatars and Identity
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 1: Messages About Drinking
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 4: Media have commercial implications
- Media literacy key concepts lesson 6: Each medium is a unique aesthetic form
- Mirror Image
- Prejudice and Body Image
- The Anatomy of Cool
- The Constructed World of Media Families
- The Hero Project: Authenticating Online Information
- TV Stereotypes
- Understanding the Internet Lesson 3: Build Understanding
- Villains, Heroes and Heroines
- Violence in Sports
- What do Halloween costumes say? - Lesson
- What Students Need to Know about Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy (Grade 5) - Lesson
Overall Expectations: Reading and viewing
- Learners will select, interpret, and combine information in multicultural contexts.
- Learners will respond personally and critically to a range of culturally diverse texts.
Specific Expectations:
- Use a variety of text features in print and digital media to access information with increasing independence
- Refine keyword choices in a search engine to access relevant Information
- Select relevant dependable sources of information, with beginning independence
- Interpret relevant information from selected sources, with beginning independence
- Combine information to enhance understanding, with beginning independence
- Give credit to sources of information, with beginning independence
- Support and explain opinions with specific relevant evidence from the text
- Begin to recognize stereotyping, bias and/or prejudice with guidance
- Respond to stereotyping, bias, and/or prejudice with guidance
- Recognize and interpret authors’ viewpoints providing evidence from the text and personal experiences.
MediaSmarts Resources
- Avatars and Body Image
- Behaving Ethically Online: Ethics and Empathy
- Break the Fake: What’s Real Online?
- Comparing Real Families to TV Families
- Data Defenders
- Girls and Boys on Television
- Introducing TV Families
- Looking at Food Advertising
- 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
- Once Upon a Time - Lesson
- Packaging Tricks - Lesson
- Prejudice and Body Image
- Stay on the Path Lesson Four: Scavenger Hunt
- Stay on the Path Lesson One: Searching for Treasure
- Stay on the Path Lesson Three: Treasure Maps
- Stay on the Path Lesson Two: All That Glitters is Not Gold
- Stereotyping and Bias
- The Constructed World of Media Families
- TV Stereotypes
- Understanding the Internet Lesson 1: Using the Internet
- Understanding the Internet Lesson 2: Pathways and Addresses
- Understanding the Internet Lesson 3: Build Understanding
- Understanding the Internet Lesson 4: Communication and Social Media
- Villains, Heroes and Heroines
- What do Halloween costumes say? - Lesson
- What Students Need to Know about Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy (Grade 5) - Lesson
- Winning the Cyber Security Game