Outcome Chart - Alberta - Social Studies Grade 8
Dimensions of Thinking
Students will:
Develop skills of critical thinking and creative thinking:
- analyze the validity of information based on context, bias, source, objectivity, evidence and reliability to broaden understanding of a topic or an issue evaluate
- ideas, information and positions from multiple perspectives
- demonstrate the ability to analyze local and current affairs
- access diverse viewpoints on particular topics by using appropriate technologies
Lessons
- Stereotyping and Bias
- Perceptions of Youth and Crime
- Media Minute Lesson 3: Audiences negotiate meaning
- Media Minute Lesson 4: Media have commercial implications
- Media Minute Lesson 5: Media have social and political implications
- Understanding Cyberbullying : Virtual vs. Physical Worlds
- Promoting Ethical Behaviour Online: Our Values and Ethics
- That’s Not Cool
- News Journalism Across the Media: Introduction
Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)
Educational Game
Citizenship
It is expected that students will:
- appreciate that membership in a society affects individual rights and freedoms
- value the ideals of democratic citizenship
Lessons
- Cyberbullying and Civic Participation
- Cyberbullying and the Law (Grades 7 - 8)
- Understanding Cyberbullying : Virtual vs. Physical Worlds
- The Girl in the Mirror
Research for Deliberative Inquiry
Students will:
Apply research processes:
- determine how information serves a variety of purposes and that the accuracy or relevance of information may need verification
- practise the responsible and ethical use of information and technology
- plan and conduct a search, using a wide variety of electronic sources
- Deconstructing Web Pages - Lesson
- Privacy and the Internet
- Thinking About Hate - Lesson
- What Students Need to Know about Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy - Lesson
- Cyberbullying and Civic Participation
- Cyberbullying and the Law
- Understanding Cyberbullying : Virtual vs. Physical Worlds
- Promoting Ethical Behaviour Online: Our Values and Ethics
- That’s Not Cool
Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)
Educational Games
Communication
Students will:
Develop skills of media literacy:
- examine techniques used to enhance the authority and authenticity of media messages
- examine the values, lifestyles and points of view represented in a media message
- analyze the impact of television, the Internet, radio and print media on a particular current affairs issue
- Stereotyping and Bias
- Perceptions of Youth and Crime
- The Girl in the Mirror
- Media Minute Lesson 3: Audiences negotiate meaning
- Media Minute Lesson 4: Media have commercial implications
- Media Minute Lesson 5: Media have social and political implications
- That’s Not Cool
- Put Your Best Face Forward
- News Journalism Across the Media: Introduction
Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)