Our older teens, aged 17 and 15, have smartphones. They aren’t big users of social media, but they do get messages from friends fairly often on Instagram, Hangouts and Discord.
This outcome chart contains Media literacy learning expectations from the Alberta social studies curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
S.1 develop skills of critical thinking and creative thinking:
Skill Descriptor:
Evaluate the impacts of food, screen time, and substance use/misuse on self and community.
Achievement Indicators:
Describe how food, screen time, and substance use can affect overall health (mental, social, emotional, and physical including brain development, etc.)
Analyze influences that lead youth to decide whether or not to misuse food, screen time, and harmful substances
GCO 2 Identify and monitor one’s emotions, thoughts, and behaviours.
2.3.1 Develop and use an emotion vocabulary
2.3.2 Recognize and accurately label one’s emotions
2.3.3 Recognize they can have more than one emotion at a time
2.3.4 Recognize factors that affect one’s emotions and thoughts
2.3.5 Recognize how emotions physically feel and present in one’s body
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Newfoundland and Labrador Grade 8 Health Education with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Alberta Grade 10 Career and Life Management curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Ontario, Curriculum for English, Grade 9, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
This chart contains media-related learning outcomes from Manitoba, Curriculum for Social Studies: Canadian Law 12, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
Overall Expectations
Health Guidelines
Specific Expectations
Physical Health
recognizes possible health issues and takes measures to prevent injuries while using technology (e.g., considers ergonomic factors, screen time, physical inactivity, sleep habits, eye strain, distracted behaviour, repetitive stress injury)
Social and Emotional Health
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Newfoundland and Labrador Grade 4 Health Education with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.