Outcome Chart - Alberta - Knowledge and Employability Social Studies Grade 10
Living in a Globalizing World
- Students will explore the impacts of globalization on their lives
- Students will explore economic, environmental and other impacts of globalization
- Students will examine their roles and responsibilities as citizens in a globalizing world
Lessons
- Crime in the News
- Deconstructing Web Pages
- Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
- Hoax? Scholarly Research? Personal Opinion? You Decide!
- Online Marketing to Kids: Protecting Your Privacy
- Thinking About Hate
- TV Dads: Immature and Irresponsible?
- What Students Need to Know about Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy
Skills and Processes for Social Studies
DIMENSIONS OF THINKING
Students will:
develop skills of critical thinking and creative thinking:
- investigate local and global current events from a variety of perspectives and examine how these perspectives can shape understanding
- examine the validity of information, based on context, bias, sources, objectivity, evidence and reliability
- examine ways in which a society’s culture may be reflected in a variety of forms; e.g., artwork, oral stories and dance.
RESEARCH FOR DELIBERATIVE INQUIRY
Students will:
apply the research process:
- access and select different points of view, using a variety of sources
- demonstrate responsible and ethical use of information and technology
- select information from appropriate sources, including primary and secondary sources
- distinguish fact from opinion in a variety of information sources; e.g., media reports and accounts
- interpret ideas and information to compare and contrast perspectives; e.g., bias, racism, prejudice, validity and authenticity
COMMUNICATION
Students will:
demonstrate skills of oral, visual and textual literacy:
- use communication technology to interact with others
develop skills of media literacy:
- examine the values, lifestyles and points of view represented in media messages
- recognize that differences in perspectives can exist in media sources
- examine the impact media has on human thought
- understand the nature of various media and the ways in which they are consciously used to influence an audience
- assess the authority, reliability and validity of electronically accessed information
- analyze the validity of various points of view in media messages
- analyze information from multiple sources, evaluating each source in terms of the author’s perspective or bias and use of evidence