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New Brunswick - Explore Your World K to 2
Strand: Literacies and Communications
Big Idea: Literate Identities
Skill Descriptor:
Demonstrate being a reader, writer, and communicator in multiple languages.
Achievement Indicators:
Attempt to integrate new words into communicative opportunities with others.
Engage with a variety of media and/or text in multiple languages.
Media Literacy for the 2024 Provincial General Election in British Columbia
This lesson package is designed to be modular, allowing teachers to choose activities that are most relevant to their students. The lesson includes: an opening “minds on” activity that introduces essential concepts of election-related misinformation, helps students retrieve prior knowledge, and shows the relevance of the topic; several activities which teachers can choose from based on the needs and context of their classes; a closing activity that introduces students to different strategies for verifying election-related information, including the idea of turning to a best single source (in this case, Elections BC). They then learn and practice engaging in active citizenship by responding to election-related disinformation.
Perceptions of Youth and Crime
In this lesson students develop an awareness of the ways in which public perceptions regarding young people have been affected by media portrayals of youth violence and youth crime.
Verifying Political Information - Introduction
There are four reasons why it’s especially important to engage critically with election news – and political news in general.
Reality Check: Getting the Goods on Science and Health
In this lesson, students start by considering the wide range of science and health information they are likely to encounter in news or through social media. They read an article on a scientific topic to help them understand the particular challenges of verifying science and health information and then use an educational computer game to practice skills in critically reading health and science stories. Finally, students compile a list of reliable sources they can turn to for verifying health and science stories.
Outcome Chart - Ontario - English as a Second Language D
This outcome chart contains media education learning outcomes from the English as a ;Second Language D curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
Outcome Chart - British Columbia - Social Studies Grade 6
This outcome chart contains media education learning outcomes from the British Columbia, Grade 6 Social Studies curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
Outcome Chart - British Columbia - Science 9
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the British Columbia, Grade 9 Science curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
Outcome Chart - Manitoba - Personal Finance 20S/20E/20M
Overall Expectations:
GLO 1.1: Demonstrate critical, creative, and innovative thinking.
Specific Expectations:
10.2.1.4 Assess the value of emerging trends in technology