Curricular Competencies

Students will be able to use the creative process to create and respond to the arts:

Exploring and creating

Intentionally select and apply materials, environments, tools, and techniques by combining and arranging elements, processes, and principles

Create artistic works collaboratively and as an individual using ideas inspired by imagination, inquiry, experimentation, and purposeful play

Explore relationships between identity, place, culture, society, and belonging through arts activities and experiences

Demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of personal, social, cultural, and historical contexts in relation to the arts

MediaSmarts Resources

Alcohol Myths

Bias and Crime in Media

Celebrities and World Issues

Cop Shows

Cyberbullying and Civic Participation

Elections and the Media

Female Action Heroes

Images of Learning

Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising

Marketing to Teens: Marketing Tactics

Privacy and Internet Life: Lesson Plan for Intermediate Classrooms

Put Your Best Face Forward

That’s Not Cool

Understanding Cyberbullying : Virtual vs. Physical Worlds

Video Production of a Newscast

You’ve Gotta Have a Gimmick

Reasoning and reflecting

Describe, interpret, and evaluate how artists use tools, processes, materials, and environments to create and communicate ideas

Develop, refine, and critically appraise ideas, processes, and technical skills to improve the quality of artistic creations

Interpret works of art using knowledge and skills from various subject areas

Reflect on works of art and the creative process to understand artists’ motivations and meanings

MediaSmarts Resources

Creating a Marketing Frenzy

Learning Gender Stereotypes

Marketing to Teens: Gotta Have It! Designer & Brand Names

Marketing to Teens: Marketing Tactics

Media literacy key concepts Lesson 3: Audiences negotiate meaning

Media literacy key concepts Lesson 4: Media have commercial implications

Media literacy key concepts Lesson 5: Media have social and political implications

Online Marketing to Kids: Strategies and Techniques

Selling Obesity

Selling Tobacco

Thinking Like a Tobacco Company

Video Production of a Newscast

Watching the Elections

You Be the Editor

Communicating and documenting

Adapt learned skills, understandings, and processes for use in new contexts and for different purposes and audiences

Interpret and communicate ideas using symbols and elements to express meaning through the arts

Take creative risks to express feelings, ideas, and experiences

Describe, interpret, and respond to works of art

Experience, document, perform, and share creative works in a variety of ways

MediaSmarts Resources

Alcohol Myths

Bias and Crime in Media

Cinema Cops

Elections and the Media

Freedom to Smoke

Gender and Tobacco

Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising

Images of Learning

Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 2: Young Drinkers

Learning Gender Stereotypes

Marketing to Teens: Alternate Ads

Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising

Marketing to Teens: Gotta Have It! Designer & Brand Names

Marketing to Teens: Marketing Tactics

Mirror Image

Put Your Best Face Forward

Scapegoating and Othering

Scientific Detectives

Selling Obesity

Selling Tobacco

The Price of Happiness

The True Story

Thinking about Hate

TV Dads: Immature and Irresponsible?

Video Games

Watching the Elections

Content

Students will know and understand the following Content:

manipulation of elements, principles, and design strategies to create mood and convey ideas in the arts, including but not limited to:

• drama: relationships, role, setting, and character through space, action, mood, and vocalizations
• music: rhythm, beat, repetition, tempo, form, melody, texture, timbre, notation
• visual art: line, shape, space, texture, colour, form, tone, principles of design (pattern, repetition, balance, contrast, emphasis, rhythm, unity/variety, and harmony)

materials, tools, strategies, techniques, and technologies to support the creative process

notation to represent ideas, elements, and actions

symbols and metaphors to explore ideas and perspectives

a variety of national and international works of art and artistic traditions from diverse cultures, communities, times, and places, including traditional and contemporary Aboriginal arts and arts-making processes

ethical issues and personal responsibility associated with creating and performing in the arts

use of the arts to communicate, respond to, and understand environmental and global issues

MediaSmarts Resources

Beyond Media Messages: Media Portrayal of Global Development

Celebrities and World Issues

Finding and Authenticating Online Information on Global Development Issues

Gender and Tobacco

Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising

Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 2: Young Drinkers

Learning Gender Stereotypes

Marketing to Teens: Alternate Ads

Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising

Marketing to Teens: Gotta Have It! Designer & Brand Names

Media literacy key concepts Lesson 3: Audiences negotiate meaning

Media literacy key concepts Lesson 4: Media have commercial implications

Put Your Best Face Forward

Selling Obesity

Sports Personalities in Magazine Advertising

Tobacco Labels

TV Dads: Immature and Irresponsible?

Unpacking Privilege

Up, Up and Away? (TM)

Video Games