Outcome Chart - British Columbia - English Language Arts 4

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the British Columbia, Grade 4 English Language Arts curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Outcome Chart - British Columbia - English Language Arts 5

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the British Columbia, Grade 5 English Language Arts curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Tobacco Labels

In this lesson, students debate the effectiveness of health warning labels on tobacco products.

Sharing Social Media as a Family

I think every kid should know how to swim. It’s one of those crucial life skills that must be in everyone’s arsenal. That’s why my husband and I introduced our kids to water at the earliest possible opportunity. First in the bath and the shower (okay, so maybe these are more about hygiene), and then we graduated to sprinklers and inflatable pools, wading pools, beaches, and lakes. As soon as the kids were old enough we signed them up for swimming lessons.

Outcome Chart - Ontario - History CHY4C: World History Since the Fifteenth Century

This chart contains media-related learning outcomes from Ontario, Curriculum for History CHY4C: World History Since the Fifteenth Century, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Outcome Chart – Prince Edward Island – English Language Arts 671A/671C (Grade 12)

Reading and Viewing

Overall Expectations:

GCO 4: Select, read, and view with understanding, a range of literature, information, media, and visual texts.

Specific Expectations:

SCO4 critically analyse the purpose, structure, and characteristics of a wide variety of texts (fiction, non-fiction, drama, poetry, and visual/multimedia)

Reading Media

In this lesson, students are introduced to the idea of “reading media” through a medium’s rules of notice and the maker’s framing choices of what to include and what to emphasize. After a modeled and then guided introduction to these ideas, students analyze a work to identify how it uses rules of notice and framing and consider what meaning these choices communicate.

Managing tech at home during the holidays

The holidays are a perfect time to cozy up as a family and watch festive movies and TV shows together. It’s also a time when kids are on the receiving end of a lot of marketing, and some kids will be given new tech devices as gifts.  

We've compiled some of our best resources for managing tech at home during the holidays, from setting rules around digital devices, to teaching kids about consumerism, to engaging with your kids on the content you’re watching together.