Outcome Chart - Nova Scotia - Advanced English Grade 12
Outcome Chart - Nova Scotia - Advanced English Grade 12
Quebec Competencies Chart - The Girl in the Mirror
Quebec Competencies Chart - The Girl in the Mirror
Quebec Competencies Chart - Violence and Video Games
Quebec Competencies Chart - Violence and Video Games
Outcome Chart - Alberta - COM1015: Media
COM1015: Media
1. identify and describe current media
1.1 identify and describe current and new media; e.g., technology, materials
1.2 identify and describe key characteristics of each type of media (e.g., photography, print, audio or video production), given various samples
1.3 identify the message from various types of media
MediaSmarts Resources
Lessons
New Brunswick - Personal Wellness 8
Strand: Wellness
Big Idea: Helpful and Harmful Choices
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
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Outcome Chart - Manitoba - Information Technology Literacy K-4
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Manitoba, Information Technology Literacy Continuum (Exploratory: K-4), 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.
Helping kids cope with media coverage of war and traumatic events
The intense media coverage that accompanies traumatic events, such as war, acts of terrorism and natural disasters, can be very disturbing. Certain young people are particularly vulnerable and some can be seriously distressed simply by watching replays of such events.
Parents, educators, health practitioners and others who work with kids can help to lessen anxieties arising from the coverage of catastrophic events.