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Outcome Chart - Manitoba - Creative Promotions 20S/20E/20M

Overall Expectations: Demonstrate critical, creative, and innovative thinking

Alberta – Physical Education and Wellness Grade 6

Safety

A lifetime of optimal well-being is supported by prioritizing health and safety.

Guiding Question

In what ways might risk influence the outcome of an action?

Learning Outcome

Students examine risk and identify the factors that influence action.

Knowledge

Risk is the overall assessment and identification of hazards related to personal safety and vulnerability.

Visual Arts

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."

Technology Education K-12

The Atlantic Provinces technology education curriculum includes expectations that incorporate digital and media education themes. The curriculum document Foundation for the Atlantic Canada Technology Education Curriculum includes a section that demonstrates the complementary relationship between digital and media literacy and technology education:

The focus of this curriculum is the development of students’ technological literacy, capability, and responsibility (International Technology Education Association, 1996).

Outcome Chart - Northwest Territories - Health Education Grade 7

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Northwest Territories Grade 7 Health Education curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Outcome Chart - Saskatchewan - Social Studies 8

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Saskatchewan, Grade 8 Social Studies curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Outcome Chart - Manitoba - Aboriginal Languages and Studies 11-12

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Manitoba Aboriginal Languages and Studies 11-12 curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Business

Many curricular expectations in Ontario Business courses relate to media and digital literacy. The following excerpt from Business Studies, Grades 9 and 10 (2006) detail how media and digital literacy have been integrated into the curriculum:

Verifying Online News - Introduction

Most of us turn to online sources for news, whether it’s reading a newspaper online or sharing a news story with our friends and family. But news stories are one of the hardest things to verify: sometimes early reports that turn out not to be true still circulate on social media and people may spread false reports for political or commercial reasons, or just for “fun.”

Authenticating Information