This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Ontario Curriculum for Communications Technology, Grade 11, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Northwest Territories Grade 2 Social Studies curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
In Ontario, media components are included throughout the Healthy Active Living Education curriculum, especially within the Healthy Living Strand:
The Ontario Canadian and World Studies curriculum covers topics that pertain to media education. The Canadian and world studies program encompasses five subjects: economics, geography, history, law, and politics; all subjects that encompass media education themes. The grade eleven and twelve curriculum document, Canadian and World Studies, include the following goal:
In Ontario, media components are included throughout the Healthy Active Living Education curriculum, especially within the Substance Use and Abuse and Living Skills Strand:
The Ontario social sciences curriculum includes expectations that incorporate media education themes. The grade curriculum document Social Sciences and Humanities (2013) includes a section that demonstrates the complementary relationship between the critical thinking approach of media education and social sciences:
Overall Expectations
Demonstrate an understanding of the concepts of habitat and community and identify some factors that could affect habitats and communities of plants and animals;
Describe ways in which humans can change habitats and the effects of these changes on the plants and animals within the habitats.
Specific Expectations
In this lesson, students are introduced to the idea of online advertising and look at the ways that marketers create immersive and appealing online environments that draw and hold children’s attention. After studying common advertising techniques, students play an educational online game that lets them put their learning into action by “creating” a site advertising a fictitious cereal, Co-Co Crunch.
The Northwest Territories has a single curriculum for kindergarten that is based on play-based learning as outlined in the document NWT Right from the Start: Early Childhood Development Framework and Action Plan.