Overall Expectations:
Character Development: Exploration of life opportunities and virtues develops resilience and personal talents and promotes lifelong learning.
Specific Expectations:
Students analyze different roles within varied contexts and examine how roles can support the development of talents, virtues, and resilience.
- Family structures can vary; may include extended family; and may consist of a single parent, a mother and a father, stepparents, two fathers, or two mothers.
MediaSmarts Resources
- Comparing Real Families to TV Families
- Introducing TV Families
- Wacky Media Songs: Media Representation
Overall Expectations:
Safety: A lifetime of optimal well-being is supported by prioritizing health and safety.
Specific Expectations:
Students investigate and explain safety and its correlation to health.
MediaSmarts Resources
- Cyber Choices (licensed resource)
- Break the Fake: What’s Real Online?
- Rules of the Game
- So Many Choices!
- Social Smarts: Nothing Personal!
- Wacky Media Songs: Ethics and Empathy
- Wacky Media Songs: Media Representation
- Wacky Media Songs: Privacy and Security
- Wacky Media Songs: Reading Media
Overall Expectations:
Healthy Eating: A lifetime of optimal well-being and physical wellness is supported by prioritizing nutrition and healthy eating
Specific Expectations:
Students investigate food and describe how it affects the body
MediaSmarts Resources
- Adversmarts: Understanding Food Advertising Online
- Co-Co’s Adversmarts
- Eating under the Rainbow
- Healthy Food Web
- Looking at Food Advertising
- Packaging Tricks
Overall Expectations:
Healthy Relationships: Personal well-being is supported through positive relationships built on communication, collaboration, empathy, and respect.
Specific Expectations:
Students investigate and describe how problem solving can affect healthy relationships.
MediaSmarts Resources
- Cyber Choices (licensed resource)
- Facing Media Violence: Consequences and Media Violence
- Facing Media Violence: Counting & Discussing Violence on the Screen
- Facing Media Violence: Rewriting the Story
- Rules of the Game
- Villains, Heroes and Heroines
- Wacky Media Songs: Community Engagement
- Wacky Media Songs: Ethics and Empathy