Grade 6
Overall Expectations:
GCO 1 Students will make responsible and informed decisions to promote and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
Specific Expectations:
SCO 6.1.1 Students will examine personal health habits and their impact on wellness.
Concepts and Content:
Healthy Eating
- Food marketing
- Food security
- Healthy drink choices
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
- Packaging Tricks - Lesson
- Mirror Image
- Online Marketing to Kids: Strategies and Techniques
- Tobacco Labels
Physical Well-being
- Domains of wellness (e.g., emotional, intellectual, physical, social, spiritual, environmental, occupational)
- Sleep habits (e.g., routines and barriers)
MediaSmarts Resources
SCO 6.1.2 Students will describe how their decision-making impacts health and personal safety
- Promote personal safety (e.g., physical, emotional, online)
MediaSmarts Resources
- A Day in the Life of the Jos (Licensed Resource)
- Behaving Ethically Online: Ethics and Empathy
- Calling Out Versus Calling In
- Getting the Toothpaste Back into the Tube
- Introduction to Ethics: Avatars and Identity
- Just a Joke? Helping Youth Respond to Casual Prejudice
- Online Marketing to Kids: Protecting Your Privacy
- Social Smarts: Nothing Personal!
- Where’s The Line? Online Safety Lesson Plan for School Resource Officers
- Winning the Cyber Security Game
SCO 6.1.4 Students will describe factors that may influence substance abuse
- Influences (e.g., peers, social media, cultural norms, traditions, addiction, use and misuse of substances)
MediaSmarts Resources
- Advertising All Around Us
- Game Time
- Image Gap
- 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
- Packaging Tricks
- Online Marketing to Kids: Strategies and Techniques
- Tobacco Labels
SCO 6.1.5 Students will explain how media and technology influence their health and well-being
MediaSmarts Resources
- A Day in the Life of the Jos (Licensed Resource)
- Advertising All Around Us
- Behaving Ethically Online: Ethics and Empathy
- Game Time
- Image Gap
- Junk Food Jungle
- 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
- Looking at Food Advertising
- Looks Good Enough to Eat
- Media literacy key concepts Introduction: What is media anyway?
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 2: Media are constructions
- 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
- Media literacy key concepts lesson 6: Each medium is a unique aesthetic form
- Packaging Tricks - Lesson
- Mirror Image
- Online Marketing to Kids: Strategies and Techniques
- Tobacco Labels
- Understanding the Internet Lesson 4: Communication and Social Media
- Where’s The Line? Online Safety Lesson Plan for School Resource Officers
Digital Citizenship
- Fact versus opinion in online sources
- Digital tools (e.g., knowing when to use them)
- Search strategies for gathering reliable information (e.g., search content, is the first link the best, Wikipedia, validating information)
- Rights and Responsibilities (e.g., how you present yourself online/offline)
- Protecting yourself/everyone online and in the real world (e.g., personal information, secrets)
- Rights to privacy and respecting privacy (e.g., setting personal online boundaries, decision making about sharing images)
- Dealing with suspicious or uncomfortable content (e.g., violation of rights, risks and responsibilities of interacting with unknown people online – strangers are not your friends)
- Define luring (e.g., reporting online, talk to an adult when you need support)
- Similarities and differences between “in real life” and “digital life” personas and behaviours (e.g., content you are posting, personal information, pros and cons)
Health and Well-being
- Screen time (e.g., shut off your device)
- Personal safety behaviours for using a digital device (e.g., do not text and drive, limited access, protecting your device, accounts, passwords)
MediaSmarts Resources
- A Day in the Life of the Jos (Licensed Resource)
- Advertising All Around Us
- Behaving Ethically Online: Ethics and Empathy
- Break the Fake: Verifying Information Online
- Calling Out Versus Calling In
- Data Defenders
- Game Time
- Getting the Toothpaste Back into the Tube
- Image Gap
- Introduction to Ethics: Avatars and Identity
- Junk Food Jungle
- 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
- Looking at Food Advertising
- Looks Good Enough to Eat
- Media literacy key concepts Introduction: What is media anyway?
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 2: Media are constructions
- 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
- Media literacy key concepts lesson 6: Each medium is a unique aesthetic form
- Packaging Tricks - Lesson
- Mirror Image
- Online Marketing to Kids: Protecting Your Privacy
- Online Marketing to Kids: Strategies and Techniques
- 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
- The Hero Project: Authenticating Online Information
- Tobacco Labels
- 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
- Where’s The Line? Online Safety Lesson Plan for School Resource Officers
- Winning the Cyber Security Game
Overall Expectations:
GCO 3 Students will apply the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to establish and maintain healthy interpersonal relationships
Specific Expectations:
SCO 6.3.2 Students will identify differences between conflict and bullying
- Types (e.g., verbal, physical, cyber, social such as identity- based bullying - gender)
SCO 6.3.3 Students will identify ways to promote anti-discrimination
Gender and Sexual Diversity
- Gender is a complex concept consisting of three parts (gender biology, gender expression and gender identity)
- Gender biology (e.g., sex assigned at birth)
- Gender identity (e.g., how we feel inside, cisgender, transgender, non-binary, two-spirit, emerging identities)
- Gender expression (e.g., how we dress and act, social perceptions)
- Sexual orientation is not the same as gender. It is about who you are attracted to romantically (e.g., lesbian, gay, queer, bisexual, two spirit, asexual, pansexual, heterosexual (straight), emerging orientations)
Define
- Bias, discrimination, and stereotypes
- Inclusive and affirming language (e.g., use of desired pronouns)
MediaSmarts Resources
- A Day in the Life of the Jos (Licensed Resource)
- Behaving Ethically Online: Ethics and Values
- Calling Out Versus Calling In
- Comic Book Characters
- Cyberbullying and Civic Participation
- Cyberbullying and the Law
- Gender Stereotypes and Body Image
- Girls and Boys on Television
- Images of Learning
- Impact! How to Make a Difference When You Witness Bullying Online
- Just a Joke? Helping Youth Respond to Casual Prejudice
- Media Kids
- Once Upon a Time - Lesson
- Prejudice and Body Image
- Stereotyping and Bias
- That’s Not Cool
- The Constructed World of Media Families
- TV Stereotypes
- Villains, Heroes and Heroines
- Where’s The Line? Online Safety Lesson Plan for School Resource Officers
Overall Expectations:
GCO 2 Students will apply the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to develop positive mental health.
Specific Expectations:
SCO 6.4.3 Students will identify how the media influences individual beliefs about body image
- Norms, values, misconceptions and stereotypes (e.g., related to body image, editing of photos, expression, groups of people)
- Gender Roles (e.g., how people are expected to act, speak, dress, groom, and behave based on their assigned sex)
- Body Positivity (i.e., challenges how society views the body, promotes acceptance of all bodies and health at any size, promotes building self-confidence and acceptance of their own body - focuses on how wonderful and helpful our bodies really are, considers how differences are beautiful, addresses unrealistic body standards and the media’s influence on body image.)
MediaSmarts Resources
Grade 7
Overall Expectations:
GCO 1 Students will make responsible and informed decisions to promote and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
Specific Expectations:
SCO 7.1.1 Students will describe the impact of health habits on self and community
- Healthy Eating: Food labels (e.g., mindful healthy eating)
MediaSmarts Resources
- Advertising All Around Us
- Junk Food Jungle
- Looking at Food Advertising
- Looks Good Enough to Eat
- Online Marketing to Kids: Strategies and Techniques
- Packaging Tricks
SCO 7.1.2 Students will analyze how their decision-making impacts health and personal safety
- Influences on Decision-Making (e.g., friends, family, culture - your world view, gender-roles, stereotypes, peers, media)
MediaSmarts Resources
- A Day in the Life of the Jos (Licensed Resource)
- Advertising All Around Us
- Behaving Ethically Online: Ethics and Empathy
- Behaving Ethically Online: Ethics and Values
- Break the Fake: Verifying Information Online
- Digital Media Experiences are Shaped by the Tools We Use: The Disconnection Challenge
- Game Time
- Getting the Toothpaste Back into the Tube
- 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
- Know the Deal: The Value of Privacy
- Mirror Image
- Online Marketing to Kids: Protecting Your Privacy
- Playing With Privacy
- Privacy and Internet Life: Lesson Plan for Intermediate Classrooms
- Promoting Ethical Behaviour Online: My Virtual Life
- 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
- That’s Not Cool
- Understanding the Internet Lesson 4: Communication and Social Media
- Where’s The Line? Online Safety Lesson Plan for School Resource Officers
- Winning the Cyber Security Game
SCO 7.1.4 Students will examine the impacts of substance use on health and well-being
MediaSmarts Resources
- Gender and Tobacco
- Image Gap
- 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
- Mirror Image
- Thinking Like a Tobacco Company
- Tobacco Labels
SCO 7.1.5 Students will analyze how media and technology influence their health and well-being
Digital Citizenship/Fluency
- Positive consequences of social media (e.g., getting facts, connection)
- Negative consequences of social media (e.g., damaged reputation, slander, bullying, social and emotional harm, misinformation)
- Online identity (e.g., may be different than in person, this can be positive if the person is more comfortable expressing themselves, it could be negative if the person is not responsible online)
- Advertising and media (e.g., critical thinking about the intent of the advertisement - question what is the ad trying to convince me to do, is the ad appropriate, is the ad a scam)
Rights and Responsibilities (e.g., confidentiality, privacy boundaries)
- Posting facts versus opinion
- Disagreeing with another’s opinions
- Affirmative action online
Health and Well-being
- Appropriate behaviour on social media (e.g., pressure from peers, empathy and ethics for how you treat people, sexually explicit media, mocking a person, non-consensual sharing of images)
- Positive use (e.g., inspiration vs. comparison, media literacy, positive media diet – glossary term)
- Phishing (e.g., is the source responsible)
- Responsible use (e.g., time management, empathy and ethics for how you treat people, overuse, attachment to your device)
- Impact of overuse (e.g., time management, getting enough sleep, spending time with family and friends, taking time to take part in health-related activities, physical posture)
- Personal safety strategies (e.g., protecting your information, keeping yourself safe and protecting another’s safety by reporting online or talking to an adult when you need support)
MediaSmarts Resources
- A Day in the Life of the Jos (Licensed Resource)
- Advertising All Around Us
- Behaving Ethically Online: Ethics and Empathy
- Behaving Ethically Online: Ethics and Values
- Break the Fake: Verifying Information Online
- Data Defenders
- Digital Media Experiences are Shaped by the Tools We Use: The Disconnection Challenge
- Finding and Authenticating Online Information on Global Development Issues
- Game Time
- Gender and Tobacco
- Getting the Toothpaste Back into the Tube
- Image Gap
- Introduction to Ethics: Avatars and Identity
- 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
- Know the Deal: The Value of Privacy
- Looking at Food Advertising
- Looks Good Enough to Eat
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 2: Media are constructions
- 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
- Media literacy key concepts lesson 6: Each medium is a unique aesthetic form
- Mirror Image
- Mixed Signals: Verifying Online Information
- Online Marketing to Kids: Protecting Your Privacy
- Online Marketing to Kids: Strategies and Techniques
- Packaging Tricks
- Playing With Privacy
- Privacy and Internet Life: Lesson Plan for Intermediate Classrooms
- Promoting Ethical Behaviour Online: My Virtual Life
- PushBack: Engaging in Online Activism
- Sports Personalities in Magazine Advertising
- 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
- Taming the Wild Wiki
- That’s Not Cool
- The Hero Project: Authenticating Online Information
- Thinking Like a Tobacco Company
- Tobacco Labels
- 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
- Up, Up and Away? (TM)
- Video Games
- Where’s The Line? Online Safety Lesson Plan for School Resource Officers
- Winning the Cyber Security Game
Overall Expectations:
GCO 3 Students will apply the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to establish and maintain healthy interpersonal relationships
Specific Expectations:
SCO 7.3.1 Students will find strategies to build and maintain healthy interpersonal relationships
Setting Personal Boundaries (e.g., physical, emotional, online, dating, benefits of boundaries)
MediaSmarts Resources
- Behaving Ethically Online: Ethics and Values
- Cyberbullying and Civic Participation
- Cyberbullying and the Law
- That’s Not Cool
- Understanding Cyberbullying : Virtual vs. Physical Worlds
- Where’s The Line? Online Safety Lesson Plan for School Resource Officers
SCO 7.3.2 Students will develop skills for responding to conflict, bullying and violence
MediaSmarts Resources
- Behaving Ethically Online: Ethics and Values
- Cyberbullying and Civic Participation
- Cyberbullying and the Law
- Impact! How to Make a Difference When You Witness Bullying Online
- That’s Not Cool
- Understanding Cyberbullying : Virtual vs. Physical Worlds
- Where’s The Line? Online Safety Lesson Plan for School Resource Officers
SCO 7.3.3 Students will examine ways to promote anti-discrimination
MediaSmarts Resources
- Comic Book Characters
- Gender Stereotypes and Body Image - Lesson
- Girls and Boys on Television
- Images of Learning
- Media Kids
- Once Upon a Time
- Prejudice and Body Image
- Stereotyping and Bias
- The Constructed World of Media Families
- TV Stereotypes
Overall Expectations:
GCO 4 Students will develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to make healthy decisions related to sexuality
Specific Expectations:
SCO 7.4.1 Students will examine social, emotional, and cognitive changes associated with adolescence
MediaSmarts Resources
- Image Gap
- Mirror Image
- Prejudice and Body Image
- Put Your Best Face Forward
- Relationships and Sexuality in the Media
- That’s Not Cool
SCO 7.4.3 Students will discuss how the media presents unrealistic messages about sexuality and relationships that can influence body image and self-worth
MediaSmarts Resources
- I heard it ‘round the Internet: Sexual health education and authenticating online information
- Image Gap
- Mirror Image
- Prejudice and Body Image
- Put Your Best Face Forward
Grade 8
Overall Expectations:
GCO 1 Students will make responsible and informed decisions to promote and maintain a healthy lifestyle
Specific Expectations:
SCO 8.1.2 Students will evaluate how their decision-making impacts health and personal safety
Health Information
Credibility of Sources (e.g., current, evidence-based, accurate, expert informed)
Influences (e.g., peers, friends, family, culture, gender-role, emotions, media, drugs and alcohol)
MediaSmarts Resources
- A Day in the Life of the Jos (Licensed Resource)
- Advertising All Around Us
- Break the Fake: Verifying Information Online
- Digital Media Experiences are Shaped by the Tools We Use: The Disconnection Challenge
- Do Sharks Love Ice Cream?
- Game Time
- Gender and Tobacco
- Image Gap
- 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
- Marketing to Teens: Alternate Ads
- Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 4: Media have commercial implications
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 5: Media have social and political implications
- Mirror Image
- Mixed Signals: Verifying Online Information
- Online Marketing to Kids: Protecting Your Privacy
- Online Marketing to Kids: Strategies and Techniques
- Taming the Wild Wiki
- That’s Not Cool
- The Hero Project: Authenticating Online Information
- Thinking Like a Tobacco Company
- Tobacco Labels
- Where’s The Line? Online Safety Lesson Plan for School Resource Officers
- Winning the Cyber Security Game
SCO 8.1.5 Students will evaluate how media and technology influence the health and well-being of self and community
MediaSmarts Resources
- A Day in the Life of the Jos (Licensed Resource)
- Behaving Ethically Online: Ethics and Empathy
- Behaving Ethically Online: Ethics and Values
- Digital Media Experiences are Shaped by the Tools We Use: The Disconnection Challenge
- Do Sharks Love Ice Cream?
- Game Time
- Image Gap
- Introduction to Ethics: Avatars and Identity
- Junk Food Jungle
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising - Lesson 4: Interpreting Media Messages
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 1: Messages About Drinking
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 3: Understanding Brands
- Looking at Food Advertising
- Looks Good Enough to Eat
- Marketing to Teens: Alternate Ads
- Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 5: Media have social and political implications
- Mirror Image
- Packaging Tricks - Lesson
- PushBack: Engaging in Online Activism
- 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
- Taming the Wild Wiki
- That’s Not Cool
- Thinking Like a Tobacco Company
- Tobacco Labels
- Where’s The Line? Online Safety Lesson Plan for School Resource Officers
- Winning the Cyber Security Game
Overall Expectations:
GCO 3 Students will apply the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to establish and maintain healthy interpersonal relationships
Specific Expectations:
SCO 8.3.1 Students will select strategies for building and maintaining healthy interpersonal relationships (media influences)
SCO 8.3.2 Students will analyze factors and influences that contribute to a safe society
SCO 8.3.3 Students will develop ways to promote anti-discrimination
MediaSmarts Resources
- Girls and Boys on Television
- Once Upon a Time - Lesson
- TV Stereotypes
- Villains, Heroes and Heroines
- Prejudice and Body Image
- The Constructed World of Media Families
- Media Kids
- Comic Book Characters
- Stereotyping and Bias
- Gender Stereotypes and Body Image - Lesson
- Images of Learning
- Where’s The Line? Online Safety Lesson Plan for School Resource Officers
- Behaving Ethically Online: Ethics and Values
- Cyberbullying and Civic Participation
- Cyberbullying and the Law
- That’s Not Cool
- Understanding Cyberbullying : Virtual vs. Physical Worlds
- Impact! How to Make a Difference When You Witness Bullying Online
Overall Expectations:
GCO 4 Students will develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to make healthy decisions related to sexuality
Specific Expectations:
SCO 8.4.3 Students will analyze how the media presents unrealistic messages about sexuality and relationships that can influence body image and self-worth
MediaSmarts Resources
- Exposing Gender Stereotypes
- I heard it ‘round the Internet: Sexual health education and authenticating online information
- Image Gap
- Learning Gender Stereotypes
- Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising
- Mirror Image
- Prejudice and Body Image
- Put Your Best Face Forward
- Relationships and Sexuality in the Media
- The Impact of Gender Stereotypes
- The Price of Happiness