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Quebec Competencies Chart - Violence in Sports

Quebec Competencies Chart - Reality Check: We Are All Broadcasters

Author: Matthew Johnson, Director of Education, MediaSmarts
Level: Secondary Cycle Two
Lesson Length: 1-1.5 hours, plus time for assessment/evaluation activity
Subject Area: English Language Arts, Visual Arts, Ethics and Religious Culture
Lesson Link: https://mediasmarts.ca/teacher-resources/reality-check-we-are-all-broadcasters

Outcome Chart - Ontario - Science 10 Academic (SNC2D)

Scientific Investigation Skills and Career Exploration

Overall Expectations:

a1. demonstrate scientific investigation skills (related to both inquiry and research) in the four areas of skills (initiating and planning, performing and recording, analysing and interpreting, and communicating)

Outcome Chart - Ontario - Science 10 Academic (SNC2P)

Scientific Investigation Skills and Career Exploration

Overall Expectations:

New Brunswick - Technology 9

Strand: Design Thinking Skills

Big Idea: Planning

Skill Descriptor:

Identify a need or problem to innovate or solve a sector-specific challenge or project and develop technical drawings of possible solutions.

Achievement Indicators:

Identify the need or problem, project goal(s), and date required

Identify any other attempts to solve the need or problem and develop a unique solution

New online resources for teachers

The Web is full of great online resources for teachers and students, with new material appearing every day. With the approach of the most-anticipated American election in recent history, social studies teachers can be excused for turning their eyes south of the border. Here's a quick overview of recently created (or recently discovered) resources for social studies classes to help them and their students make the most of election season:

Resources

Outcome Chart - Ontario - Information and Communication Technology (BTT1O, BTT2O) in Business, Grade 9 or 10, Open

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Ontario Information and Communication Technology (BTT1O, BTT2O) in Business, Grade 9 or 10, Open curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Outcome Chart - Ontario - Information and Communication Technology: (BTA3O) The Digital Environment, Grade 11, Open

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Ontario Information and Communication Technology: (BTA3O) The Digital Environment, Grade 11, Open curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Raising a Generation of Data Defenders

How can you help pre-teens understand the value of their personal information and empower them to take steps to manage and protect it? Data Defenders, an educational game for children ages 10 to12, lifts the curtain on data collection by showing how apps and games can find out all kinds of things about them and by providing steps they can take to control the collection of personal information online.

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