Healthy Active Living Education 11-12
In Ontario, media components are included throughout the Healthy Active Living Education curriculum, especially within the Healthy Living Strand:
In Ontario, media components are included throughout the Healthy Active Living Education curriculum, especially within the Healthy Living Strand:
“Students require an understanding of self as the basis for making healthy choices, having healthy interactions with others and using resources wisely, as well as for lifelong career development. They also require information, planning tools and processes to make decisions and develop action plans for effective life management.” Career and Life Management
In the Alberta Health and Life Skills K-9 Framework, media literacy is highlighted under the heading Program Rational and Philosophy in the section Responsible, Healthy Choices:
In the Northwest Territories Health Education, media literacy outcomes for are included under the broader categories of Mental and Emotional Well Being; Nutrition; Safety; Responsibilty; Family Life; and Alcohol and Other Drugs.
In Ontario, media components are included throughout the Healthy Active Living Education curriculum, especially within the Substance Use and Abuse and Living Skills Strand:
Strands in English
The expectations in the compulsory courses of the English curriculum are organized in four strands, or broad areas of learning: Oral Communication, Reading and Literature Studies, Writing, and Media Studies. The program in all grades is designed to develop a range of essential skills in these four interrelated areas, built on a solid foundation of knowledge of the conventions of standard English and incorporating the use of analytical, critical, and metacognitive thinking skills.
Media Studies Strand
In the Saskatchewan elementary English Language Arts curriculum, media-related objectives are provided under foundational objectives for speaking, listening, writing, reading, and representing and viewing.
In Saskatchewan secondary English Language Arts, media-related objectives are provided under foundational objectives for speaking, listening, writing, reading, and representing and viewing.
In the secondary English Language Arts curriculum for Cycle Two (years 10, 11), media is most represented under Competency 2: Represents her/his literacy in different media.
In Manitoba, media components are included in the Visual Arts curriculum in the Understanding Art in Context strand. The document The Arts in Education (2003) states, "The arts can help students become more deeply aware of their own lives and cultures and create a larger, more conscious context for the plethora of media images, sounds, and messages that surround us."