Career Education

Career Development 10 “prepares students with broad strokes to prepare for the workplace.”[1]  Alongside learning self-assessment and increasing their self-awareness, students will “examine the changing world of work and analyse ways they can be prepared for a future that is constantly evolving.”[2]  Financial literacy makes up a large part of this course because students will be introduced to “budgeting, financial decision making and money management strategies…”[3] Career Development 11 carries on from its precursor, by “building on students’ developing personal and financial aw

Outcome Chart - Nunavut - Social Studies 1

Strand: Nunavusiutit

Themes

A. Home and Family    
B. Home and School    
C. Home and Community    
D. Current Events

Overall Expectations:

Outcome Chart - Nunavut - School Health Program 4

Strand: Aulajaaqtut

Overall Expectations: Mental and Emotional Well-being

Specific Expectations:

Decision Making

1. identify the possible effects of various choices
2. identify reasons for individual decisions

 

1. identify decisions that peers may influence
2. identify ways peers influence them

 

Wacky Media Songs: Media Representation

Level: Grade K to 3

About the author: Matthew Johnson, Director of Education, MediaSmarts

Duration: 10-15 minutes per activity

This lesson is part of USE, UNDERSTAND & ENGAGE: A Digital Media Literacy Framework for Canadian Schools.

Overview

Body Image, Digital Health, Diversity in Media, Media Literacy 101, Social Networking, Stereotyping

Outcome Chart - New Brunswick - Music Grade 5

Strand

Overall Expectations

Students will be expected to respect the contribution to the arts of individuals and cultural groups in local and global contexts, and value the arts as a record of human experience and expression.

Specific Expectations

Outcome Chart - Nova Scotia - English Language Arts Primary (K)

Overall Expectations: Listening and Speaking

  • Learners will interact using effective oral language skills considering audience, purpose, and situation.

Specific Expectations:

  • begin to ask and respond to questions and seek information
  • describe a personal experience with at least one detail
  • engage in small- and whole-group conversation
  • begin to demonstrate that different kinds of language are appropriate to diff

Outcome Chart - Saskatchewan - Social Studies 9

Outcome Chart - Saskatchewan - Social Studies 9

Constant surveillance: Youth privacy in a digital age

Despite what many adults believe privacy matters to youth. More and more, though, youth are finding that their actions online are monitored – by parents, teachers, and corporations. A high school principal creates a fake Facebook profile page and adds over 300 of her school’s students as friends; a Texas middle-school plans to introduce ID cards with microchips that its students will be required to carry at all times; an Indiana high school student is expelled after a profane tweet (sent in the middle of the night from the student’s home computer) alerts his school’s monitoring system.

Privacy

Getting the Goods on Science and Health – Tip Sheet

Here are three tips to help you find good information about health and science topics.

  1. Check credentials

If the source is a person, start by checking that they really exist and that they are a genuine expert on that topic. Both doctors and scientists are usually specialists, so make sure that the source has credentials in the right field. A surgeon won’t necessarily be an expert in physics, for instance, and vice versa.

Authenticating Information, Digital Health, Internet & Mobile

Clone of Fact checks

The following fact-checking videos have been produced by teens for teens. The viral claims they chose to fact-check touch on a range of topics from the environment, health, science and food to beauty products, social media trends and even presumed “weird” local bylaws that caught their attention.