Outcome Chart – Nova Scotia – Social Studies Grade 3
Overall Expectations:
Learners will investigate the rights and responsibilities of citizens in a democracy.
Let’s Talk: Finding Reliable Mental Health Information and Resources
Welcome to the Let’s Talk: Finding Reliable Mental Health Information and Resources program for students in Grades 7-8. This program was developed in partnership with MediaSmarts and Kids Help Phone, and was made possible with funding from Bell.
Online Marketing to Kids: Protecting Your Privacy
This lesson introduces students to the ways in which commercial apps and websites collect personal information from kids and to the issues surrounding children and privacy on the Internet. Students begin by considering how comfortable they would be with people knowing various things about them, and then watch and discuss a video which explains how targeted advertising works. They then explore the idea of targeted advertising through a class exercise in which Prince Charming tries to target Cinderella with an ad for glass slippers, and then analyze how their own personal information might be used to target them with ads. In the second part of the lesson, students are introduced to privacy policies and how they are rated by the website Terms of Service, Didn’t Read. They read and analyze the site’s rating for a popular app and then learn ways to limit data collection. In an extension activity, students are introduced to the idea of “dark patterns” and imagine how the Wicked Queen might use them to convince Snow White to accept “poison” cookies.
Quebec Competencies Chart - Can You Spot the Ad?
Quebec Competencies Chart - Can You Spot the Ad?
Quebec Competencies Chart - Put Your Best Face Forward
Quebec Competencies Chart - Put Your Best Face Forward
Outcome Chart - Alberta - Health and Life Skills Grade 2
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Alberta Grade 2 Health and Life Skills curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
Career Education
The Newfoundland career education curriculum includes expectations that incorporate media education themes. The curriculum document Career Development Intermediate (2012) includes a section that demonstrates the complementary relationship between media literacy and career education:
Healthy Food Web
In this lesson, students consider the role of snack foods in a healthy diet. The teacher then guides them on a tour of popular sites aimed at children, where the class identifies and classifies the advertising encountered there and looks at how the food products being advertised fit – or don’t fit – in the food groups found in the Canada Food Guide. Students then play the game Co-Co’s AdverSmarts to understand some of the techniques used by online food marketers and then create their own mock website promoting a healthy diet.
Avatars and body image
In this lesson students are introduced to the concept of "avatars" and share their experiences creating and playing avatars in video games and virtual worlds. They then create avatars using a program that is intentionally limited in terms of available body types and gender markers, first creating an avatar of their own gender and then of the opposite gender, and then discuss the program and relate it to representations of gender and body image in games and virtual worlds and in other media. Students then create avatars using a much more flexible version of the program and compare that experience to the more limited version. Finally, students use the more versatile program to create avatars that represent how they see themselves and how they would like others to see them online and reflect on the choices that went into creating them.