Balancing your family’s media consumption over the summer

Summer can feel very long sometimes. Heck, I’ve been there. I clearly remember the days when the kids seemed crazier than a pack of wild squirrels, leaving piles of household detritus in their wake while I followed them helplessly, longing for a hot cup of coffee and five minutes in the bathroom without someone knocking on the door.

Citizenship 9

Engaged Citizenship

Overall Expectations:

Learners will construct a collaboratively-designed service learning project which addresses a need in the school or larger community.

Specific Expectations:

Outcome Chart – Nunavut - Communications 11

Strand: Uqausiliriniq

Overall Expectations:

Module 1: The essentials of working with others

Specific Expectations:

1. Students will identify the interpersonal skills required to work successfully with others by:

• completing a problem-solving task with a small group of classmates

2. Students will increase self-awareness by:

Outcome Chart - British Columbia - English 11 First Peoples: Literary Studies + New Media

Big Ideas

• The exploration of text and story deepens our understanding of diverse, complex ideas about identity, others, and the world.
• First Peoples texts and stories provide insight into key aspects of Canada’s past, present, and future.
• Texts are socially, culturally, geographically, and historically constructed
• Self-representation through authentic First Peoples text is a means to foster justice.
• New media influence people’s understandings of

Quebec Competencies Chart - Gambling in the Media

Quebec Competencies Chart - Gambling in the Media

Quebec Competencies Chart - Editing Emotions

Level: Grades 5-9
Lesson Length: 2-3 hours
Subject Area: Digital health, media production, movies
Lesson Link: https://mediasmarts.ca/teacher-resources/editing-emotions

Quebec Competencies Chart - Film Classification Systems in Québec

Level: Grades 11-12 (Secondary 4 and 5)
Lesson Length: 2.5 hours
Subject Area: Digital Citizenship, Diversity in Media, Movies, Violence
Lesson Link: https://mediasmarts.ca/teacher-resources/film-classification-systems-qu%C3%A9bec

Setting family goals and intentions after the New Year

Now that we’re past the flurry of people posting about their January New Year’s resolutions (maybe some of them were realistic and easy to follow and some of them less so), it’s a good time to sit back and think about how we can start off a fresh year with intention, particularly when it comes to screen use.  

Outcome Chart - British Columbia - English Language Arts 7

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the British Columbia, Grade 7 English Language Arts curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.