Media Literacy Week
Media Literacy Week Teacher’s Hub
Welcome to the Media Literacy Week Teachers’ Hub!
This space is designed to provide you with plug and play lessons and resources on digital and media literacy topics that relate to this year’s event, co-hosted by MediaSmarts and the Canadian Teachers’ Federation. We’ve curated three special days in October so you and your students can celebrate AND learn!
Monday October 26
Lesson Plans
Grades K-2: What’s in the frame?
Grades 3-5: What’s real online?
Grades 6-9: Verifying information online
Grades 10-12: Hoax? Scholarly research? Personal opinion? You decide!
More Resources
NEW Break the Fake Interactive E-Learning Module
Break the Fake: Animals Quiz
Have students try this quiz in class or at home to help them spot suspicious social media posts.
Printable materials
Download our FREE house hippo posters and bookmarks and use them in your classroom!
Thursday October 29
Lesson Plans
Grades K-1: Adversmarts: Introduction to Food Advertising Online
Grades K-3: Adversmarts: Understanding Food Advertising Online
Grades 4-6: Avatars and body image
Grades 6-8: Getting the toothpaste back in the tube - a lesson on online information
Grades 7-9: Put your best face forward
Grades 9-12: Digital storytelling for community engagement
More Resources
Visit the educational games section of our website for more fun ways to introduce kids to key concepts of media and digital literacy.
Looking for more resources?
USE, UNDERSTAND & CREATE: A Digital Literacy Framework for Canadian Schools
USE, UNDERSTAND & CREATE provides a road map for teaching digital literacy skills in Canadian schools. The framework draws on seven key aspects of digital literacy – ethics and empathy, privacy and security, community engagement, digital health, consumer awareness, finding and verifying and making and remixing – and provides teachers with supporting lessons and interactive resources that are linked to curriculum outcomes for every province and territory.
Digital and Media Literacy Outcomes by Province & Territory
This web section provides detailed information on media education for each province and territory, information on provincial/territorial media education organizations, and a listing of media education curricular outcomes, by grade, with links to supporting MediaSmarts resources.