Overall Expectations:
Safety: A lifetime of optimal well-being is supported by prioritizing health and safety.
Specific Expectations:
Students analyze responsibility and consider the impact on well-being.
Decisions related to substance use can be influenced by a variety of factors, such as
- media
- peer influence
- marketing
Responsibility to ensure the safety of self and others includes following
- laws
- rules
- practices
- protocols
- digital citizenship (responsible conduct and safety)
MediaSmarts Resources
- Behaving Ethically Online: Ethics and Empathy
- Break the Fake: What’s Real Online?
- Cyber Choices (licensed resource)
- Data Defenders
- Image Gap
- Introduction to Ethics: Avatars and Identity
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising - Lesson 4: Interpreting Media Messages
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 1: Messages About Drinking
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 2: Young Drinkers
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 3: Understanding Brands
- Mirror Image
- Privacy Pirates
- Social Smarts: Nothing Personal!
- Stay on the Path Lesson Four: Scavenger Hunt
- Stay on the Path Lesson One: Searching for Treasure
- Stay on the Path Lesson Three: Treasure Maps
- Stay on the Path Lesson Two: All That Glitters is Not Gold
- Understanding the Internet Lesson 4: Communication and Social Media
- What Students Need to Know about Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy (Grade 5) - Lesson
- Winning the Cyber Security Game
Overall Expectations:
Healthy Eating: A lifetime of optimal well-being and physical wellness is supported by prioritizing nutrition and healthy eating.
Specific Expectations:
Students evaluate aspects of nutrition and examine their benefits to well-being
MediaSmarts Resources
Overall Expectations:
Growth and Development: Decision making that optimizes personal health and well-being is informed by understanding growth and development.
Specific Expectations:
Individuals can experience cognitive changes, such as
- ability to retain, process, and organize larger amounts of information
- enhanced critical-thinking, reasoning, and decision-making skills
- thoughts and feelings about self-image
MediaSmarts Resources
- Avatars and Body Image
- Behaving Ethically Online: Ethics and Empathy
- Break the Fake: What’s Real Online?
- Data Defenders
- Image Gap
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 1: Messages About Drinking
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 2: Young Drinkers
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 3: Understanding Brands
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising - Lesson 4: Interpreting Media Messages
- Media literacy key concepts Introduction: What is media anyway?
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 2: Media are constructions
- Media literacy key concepts lesson 6: Each medium is a unique aesthetic form
- Mirror Image
- Prejudice and Body Image
- The Anatomy of Cool
- The Hero Project: Authenticating Online Information
- Understanding the Internet Lesson 1: Using the Internet
- Understanding the Internet Lesson 2: Pathways and Addresses
- Understanding the Internet Lesson 3: Build Understanding
- Understanding the Internet Lesson 4: Communication and Social Media
Overall Expectations:
Financial Literacy: Informed financial decision making contributes to the well-being of individuals, groups, and communities.
Specific Expectations:
Factors that can influence consumer choice include
- marketing
- advertising
- media
- availability
- trends
- price
MediaSmarts Resources
- Advertising All Around Us
- Junk Food Jungle
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising - Lesson 4: Interpreting Media Messages
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 1: Messages About Drinking
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 2: Young Drinkers
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 3: Understanding Brands
- Looking at Food Advertising
- Looks Good Enough to Eat
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 4: Media have commercial implications
- Packaging Tricks
- Pay For Play
- Privacy Pirates
- The Anatomy of Cool