Images of Learning: Elementary - Lesson

This lesson helps students become more aware of the stereotypes associated with portrayals of students and teachers on TV. (It is also a good follow-up to the elementary lesson TV Stereotypes.)

Stereotyping, Television

Looks Good Enough to Eat

This lesson looks at food photography and the different techniques used by food stylists to make foods look appealing in advertisements.

Food Marketing, Marketing & Consumerism

Buy Nothing Day

In this lesson Buy Nothing Day is used as a jumping-off point to look at the role of consumerism in our lives and culture.

Marketing & Consumerism

Exposing Gender Stereotypes - Lesson

This is the first of three lessons that address gender stereotypes. The objective of this lesson is to encourage students to develop their own critical intelligence with regard to culturally inherited stereotypes, and to the images presented in the media - film and television, rock music, newspapers and magazines.

Body Image, Gender Representation, Movies, Music, Stereotyping, Television

Music 9-12

The Manitoba Curriculum Framework of Outcomes for Music 9-12 (2014) identifies four essential learning areas:

Making (M-M) The learner develops understanding of and facility with language and practices for making music.

Creating (M-CR) The learner generates, develops, and communicates ideas for creating music.

Connecting (M-C) The learner develops understandings about the significance of music by connecting music to diverse contexts.

Outcome Chart - Manitoba - Career Development 11: Full Credit

Personal Management

Overall Expectations

GLO A: Build and maintain a positive self-image

Specific Expectations

1.A.1 Evaluate the impact of self-image on self and others

MediaSmarts Resources

Secure Comics

In this lesson, students read an interactive online comic that teaches them key concepts and skills relating to three cybersecurity topics: malware, passwords and privacy from geotracking devices. Following this, students research their own cybersecurity topics and learn how non-fiction comics are made in order to create their own Secure Comic.

Comics, Cyber Security, Digital Citizenship, Intellectual Property

Outcome Chart - Manitoba - Aboriginal Languages and Studies K-2

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Manitoba - Aboriginal Languages and Studies K-2 curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Outcome Chart - Saskatchewan - Career Education 9

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Saskatchewan Career Education 9 curriculum with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Change and Growth

Overall Expectations

Plan for, demonstrate, and document improvements of one’s own capacity for building a positive self-image.

Specific Expectations

Integrate personal skills such as time management, problem solving, stress management, and life/work balance into one’s life

Outcome Chart - Prince Edward Island - Canadian Studies 401A

Unit 6: Canada’s Cultural Mosaic (Culture and Diversity)

Overall Expectations

Students will be expected to demonstate an understanding of culture, diversity, and world view, recognizing the similarities and differences reflected in various personal, cultural, racial, and ethnic perspectives

Specific Expectations

10-6-1 describe the four elements of culture