Alberta - English Language Arts Grade 2
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Alberta, Grade 2 English Language Arts curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Alberta, Grade 2 English Language Arts curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Alberta, Grade 3 English Language Arts curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
Exploration of life opportunities and virtues develops resilience and personal talents and promotes lifelong learning.
Guiding Question:
How can personal characteristics influence feelings and emotions?
Learning Outcome:
Children describe personal characteristics and explore feelings and emotions.
Knowledge:
Exploration of life opportunities and virtues develops resilience and personal talents and promotes lifelong learning.
Guiding question: How can personal characteristics contribute to self-understanding?
Learning outcome: Students examine personal characteristics, feelings, and emotions and explore understandings of self.
Knowledge: Emotions show how an individual feels.
Exploration of life opportunities and virtues develops resilience and personal talents and promotes lifelong learning.
Guiding Question: How are roles connected to character development?
Learning Outcome: Students examine roles, responsibilities, and self-regulation and their connections to self-understanding.
This lesson looks at the ways in which online gambling draws in youth and increases the risk that they will become problem gamblers.
This is the third of three lessons that address gender stereotypes. The objective of these lessons is to encourage students to develop their own critical intelligence with regard to culturally inherited stereotypes, and to the images presented in the media - film and television, rock music, newspapers and magazines.
In this lesson, students learn how shapes are used in character design in comics and animation and look at how male and female characters are depicted in comic books. Using a Comic Book Analysis sheet, students will record the attributes of male and female comic book characters. As a class, students will record common patterns and discuss what messages about men and women are communicated. Students then design a comic book character that uses shapes to communicate what they think a real hero is.
In this lesson, students are introduced to basic concepts of anthropology and ethnography and explore how they apply to online communities. After performing a digital ethnography project on the norms and values of an online community, students consider how a community’s norms and values are formed and how they can be shaped and influenced.
In this lesson, students draw connections between their existing concepts of privacy and how it applies to the internet and networked devices, then learn essential vocabulary relating to privacy. They then consider some scenarios in which children encounter privacy risks and draw on those to develop a list of “dos” and “don’ts” for using networked devices.