In this lesson, students discuss television programming aimed at children and how girls and boys are portrayed in it. Students illustrate what they dislike about portrayals of girls or boys and then create their own TV character who will counter the illustrated negative portrayals.
Quebec Competencies Chart - Buy Nothing Day
This chart contains media-related learning outcomes from Ontario, Curriculum for History CHT3O: World History Since 1900: Global and Regional Interactions, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
This outcome chart contains Media literacy learning expectations from the Alberta social studies curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
Overall Expectations:
GCO 3: Students will be expected to demonstrate critical awareness of and value for the role of the arts in creating and reflecting culture.
Specific Expectations:
Quebec Competencies Chart - Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising
On Saturday, September 26, 2009, the US network Nickelodeon did something unusual: it switched itself off. This was in observance of the "Worldwide Day of Play," an event Nickelodeon inaugurated in 2004. The network -- along with its sister channels Noggin, the N, and Nicktoons, and their associated Web sites -- went dark for three hours to encourage its young viewers to "ride a bike, do a dance, kick a ball, skate a board, jump a rope, swing a swing, climb a wall, run a race, do ANYTHING that gets you up and playing!"
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Ontario Grade 4 Health and Physical Education curriculum with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
CP30.1 Investigate creative processes for producing arts expressions.
Indicators
a. Investigate inspiration and departure points for own artistic work.
b. Engage in creative processes to develop artistic projects individually or collaboratively (e.g., choreographic process, visual art-making process, music composition process, dramatic/theatrical process).
This chart contains media-related learning outcomes from Ontario, Curriculum for History CHA3U: American History, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.