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Art Studio 12

Curricular Competencies

Outcome Chart - Manitoba - Business Innovations 9 (10S/10E/10M)

Overall Expectations: Demonstrate awareness of digital footprints

Outcome Chart - Nova Scotia - Visual Arts 10

Creating, Making and Presenting

Overall Expectations:

GCO 1: explore, challenge, develop and express ideas using the skills, language, techniques and processes of the arts

Specific Expectations:

CM 1.2 assess and utilize the properties of various art media and their ability to convey intended meaning

CM 1.3 create a variety of interrelated artworks on themes found through direct observation, personal experience, and imagination

Media Literacy for the 2024 Provincial General Election in British Columbia

This lesson package is designed to be modular, allowing teachers to choose activities that are most relevant to their students. The lesson includes: an opening “minds on” activity that introduces essential concepts of election-related misinformation, helps students retrieve prior knowledge, and shows the relevance of the topic;  several activities which teachers can choose from based on the needs and context of their classes; a closing activity that introduces students to different strategies for verifying election-related information, including the idea of turning to a best single source (in this case, Elections BC). They then learn and practice engaging in active citizenship by responding to election-related disinformation.

Authenticating Information, Journalism & News, Marketing & Consumerism

Outcome Chart - Prince Edward Island - Communication and Information Technology Grade 4

In the working guide Journey On: Working Toward Communication and Information Technology Literacy, media-related outcomes are integrated throughout the CIT curriculum.

Outcome Chart - British Columbia - Literacy Foundations - English Language Arts - Level 7

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

Outcome Chart - Saskatchewan - English Language Arts 7

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

In the elementary curriculum in Saskatchewan, learning objectives for media studies are included as a category within the supporting domain, Oracy and Literacy: Media. Media-related objectives can also be found within Speaking and Listening, Reading and Response to Literature, Writing, Educational Drama, Research and Presentation and Computer Applications.

Television's Impact on Kids

Television is one of the most prevalent media influences in kids' lives. According to the 2011 Active Healthy Kids Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth, Canadian youth ages 6-19 average about six hours of screen time per day, with TV programs (watched on a variety of different screens) accounting for much of this time. ^[1]

Television