Overall Expectations:
Safety: A lifetime of optimal well-being is supported by prioritizing health and safety.
Specific Expectations:
Digital privacy is important to protect personal information.
Safety risks associated with use of digital technology include
- intrusion of privacy
- bullying
- misinformation
- inability to properly request, obtain, or give consent
- exploitation
The Internet and social media can expose an individual to unwanted communication or images and information.
Sharing explicit or graphic images can have significant consequences, including being illegal under the Criminal Code of Canada.
Risks of substance use can include
- addiction
- impaired brain development
- decreased mental health
- impaired thinking
MediaSmarts Resources
- A Day in the Life of the Jos (Licensed Resource)
- Behaving Ethically Online: Ethics and Empathy
- Break the Fake: What’s Real Online?
- Calling Out Versus Calling In
- Cyber Choices (licensed resource)
- Data Defenders
- Getting the Toothpaste Back into the Tube
- Image Gap
- Introduction to Ethics: Avatars and Identity
- Just a Joke? Helping Youth Respond to Casual Prejudice
- 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
- Know the Deal: The Value of Privacy
- Media literacy key concepts Introduction: What is media anyway?
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 2: Media are constructions
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 4: Media have commercial implications
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 5: Media have social and political implications
- Media literacy key concepts lesson 6: Each medium is a unique aesthetic form
- Mirror Image
- Social Smarts: Nothing Personal!
- Stay on the Path Lesson One: Searching for Treasure
- That’s Not Cool
- 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
- What Students Need to Know about Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy (Grade 5) - Lesson
- Where’s The Line? Online Safety Lesson Plan for School Resource Officers
- 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 examine access to food and its effect on making decisions related to nutrition.
MediaSmarts Resources
Overall Expectations:
Healthy Relationships: Personal well-being is supported through positive relationships built on communication, collaboration, empathy, and respect.
Specific Expectations:
Students consider and describe a variety of perspectives that support the development of healthy relationships.
MediaSmarts Resources
- A Day in the Life of the Jos (Licensed Resource)
- Behaving Ethically Online: Ethics and Empathy
- Calling Out Versus Calling In
- Cyber Choices (licensed resource)
- Introduction to Ethics: Avatars and Identity
- Just a Joke? Helping Youth Respond to Casual Prejudice
- That’s Not Cool
- Understanding the Internet Lesson 4: Communication and Social Media
Overall Expectations:
Growth and Development: Decision making that optimizes personal health and well-being is informed by understanding growth and development.
Specific Expectations:
Maturation can be supported through decision making related to personal and environmental factors, such as
- stress reduction
- mental health
- body image
- immunization
- daily physical activity
- substance use
- rest and sleep
- nutrition
MediaSmarts Resources