Outcome Chart - British Columbia - Social Studies Grade 8
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the British Columbia, Grade 8 Social Studies curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
Outcome Chart - Prince Edward Island - Visual Arts 5
Outcome Chart - Prince Edward Island - Visual Arts 5
Quebec Competencies Chart - Data Defenders: Understanding data collection online
Level: Grades 4 to 6
Subject Area: Digital citizenship, privacy, online marketing
Lesson Link: http://mediasmarts.ca/teacher-resources/data-defenders-understanding-data-collection-online
Outcome Chart - Prince Edward Island - Health Education Grade 5
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Prince Edward Island Grade 5 Health Education with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
Mirror Image
In this lesson, students learn tobacco and nicotine advertising through the “rules of notice” of visual media. Students move from identifying factual design elements to interpreting their emotional impact and evaluating the broader societal implications of these constructions. Students then create an original counter-advertisement or parody ad that challenges industry narratives and unmasks manipulation.
The Hero Project: Authenticating Online Information
Students are introduced to Internet search skills through researching a personal hero. By focusing on the early parts of the research process, students learn to select well-defined topics, ask relevant research questions and select effective keywords. Students then present the information they have found to their classmates in the form of a media product.
Outcome Chart - Nunavut - Social Studies 4
Strand: Nunavusiutit
Themes
A. How Our People Lived Long Ago
B. Our Changing Communities
C. The Faces of the NWT
D. Current Events
Overall Expectations:
7. the challenges and opportunities that arise from cultural diversity
8. opportunities for citizens' participation in community affairs
Specific Expectations:
Skills:
Arts Education
The British Columbia Arts Education curriculum promotes the development of artistic habits of mind, categorized as exploring and creating, reasoning and reflecting, and communicating and documenting. Digital media literacy is present throughout these curricular competencies, which include a focus on relationships between the arts and various cultures and societies, reflecting on and making connections between creative processes, and considering how audience negotiate meaning.
Mathematics
The Ontario mathematics curriculum includes expectations that incorporate media education themes. The grade curriculum document Mathematics (2007) includes a section that explains how mathematical concepts such as probability can be applied to media criticism:
Dealing With Digital Stress
In this lesson, students reflect on the ways in which digital media can cause stress. Through a series of role-playing exercises, they consider how social media can cause stress by making us compare the highlights of others' lives to the lowlights of our own, and practice strategies for coping with digital stress.