Outcome Chart - Alberta - Art Grade 7
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Alberta, Art Grade 7 curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
Drawings
Overall Expectations:
Communicate: Students will demonstrate technical competencies and express individual insights.
Specific Expectations:
Students will use expressiveness in their use of elements in the making of images.
MediaSmarts Resources
- Comic Book Characters
- Editing Emotions
- Media Kids
- Privacy and Internet Life: Lesson Plan for Intermediate Classrooms
Overall Expectations:
Articulate and Evaluate: Students will apply visual, analytical and critical skills and develop control and competency.
Specific Expectations:
Students will learn to use the basic vocabulary of art criticism in descriptions of their work.
MediaSmarts Resources
- Gender and Tobacco
- Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 1: Messages About Drinking
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 2: Young Drinkers
- Mirror Image
Compositions
Overall Expectations:
Components: Students will develop competence with the components of images: media, techniques and design elements
Specific Expectations:
Students will experiment with techniques and media within complete compositions of two and three dimensions.
MediaSmarts Resources
- Bias and Crime in Media
- Comic Book Characters
- Editing Emotions
- Impact! How to Make a Difference When You Witness Bullying Online
- Looks Good Enough to Eat
- Media Kids
- Privacy and Internet Life: Lesson Plan for Intermediate Classrooms
- Put Your Best Face Forward
- That's Not Cool
- Winning the Cyber Security Game
Encounters
Overall Expectations:
Transformations Through Time: Students will understand that the role and form of art differs through time and across cultures.
Specific Expectations:
Students will recognize the significance of the visual symbols which identify the selected cultural groups.
MediaSmarts Resources
- Bias and Crime in Media
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 3: Audiences negotiate meaning
- Scapegoating and Othering
Overall Expectations:
Impact of Images: Students will understand that art reflects and affects cultural character.
Specific Expectations:
Students will search for contemporary evidence relating to themes studied.