Creating and Presenting
Overall Expectations
GCO 1: Students will be expected to explore, challenge, develop, and express ideas, using the skills, language, techniques, and processes of the arts.
Specific Expectations
11.1.1 explore the unique qualities of a range of media
11.1.2 show competence and responsibility in use and manipulation of required materials, tools and techniques
11.1.3 explore and apply a variety of image development techniques
11.1.4 produce a body of artwork that shows artistic growth and development
MediaSmarts Resources
Lessons
- Alcohol Myths
- Challenging Hate Online
- First Person
- Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising
- Online Marketing to Kids: Strategies and Techniques
- The Price of Happiness
- The Privacy Dilemma: Lesson Plan for Senior Classrooms
- Watching the Elections
Overall Expectations
GCO 2: Students will be expected to create and/or present, independently and collaboratively, expressive products in the arts for a range of audiences and purposes.
Specific Expectations
11.2.1 create and present art works to convey personal messages and meaning
11.2.2 create art objects where emotions, feelings, and experiences are used as a means of expression and communication of ideas
11.2.3 organize an exhibition that takes into consideration the selections and presentation of art works
11.2.4 engage in artistic inquiry, exploration, and discovery in collaboration with others
MediaSmarts Resources
Lessons
- Alcohol Myths
- Challenging Hate Online
- First Person
- Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising
- Online Marketing to Kids: Strategies and Techniques
- The Price of Happiness
- The Privacy Dilemma: Lesson Plan for Senior Classrooms
- Watching the Elections
Understanding and Connecting Contexts of Time, Place and Community
Overall Expectations
GCO3: Students will be expected to examine the relationship among the arts, societies, and environments.
Specific Expectations
11.3.2 use visual arts as a means of responding to social, ethical, and environmental issues
11.3.3 examine and discuss the moral, ethical, and legal issues related to the creation, performance and exhibition of art works
11.3.4 discuss the role of changing technologies on art and society in the past, present and future
MediaSmarts Resources
Lessons
- Alcohol Myths
- Challenging Hate Online
- First Person
- Hate 2.0
- Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising
- Online Marketing to Kids: Strategies and Techniques
- Shaking the Movers: Youth Rights and Media
- The Citizen Reporter
- The Price of Happiness
- The Privacy Dilemma: Lesson Plan for Senior Classrooms
- Up, Up and Away? (TM)
- Watching the Elections
Overall Expectations
GCO 4: Students will be expected to demonstrate critical awareness of and value for the role of the arts in creating, and reflecting cultures, human experience and expression.
Specific Expectations
11.4.1 analyze and understand the influence of the visual arts, their impact on daily life, and their power to create, alter, and reflect culture
11.4.2 understand how ideas, perceptions, and feelings are embodied in art works of a culture
11.4.3 trace influences of various cultures and subcultures on contemporary artwork
11.4.4 explore a range of arts related careers and how arts skills are valuable in other vocations
MediaSmarts Resources
Lessons
- Beyond Media Messages: Media Portrayal of Global Development
- Camera Shots
- Exposing Gender Stereotypes
- First Person
- Gender and Tobacco
- Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
- Hate 2.0
- Kellogg Special K Ads
- Learning Gender Stereotypes
- Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising
- Marketing to Teens: Gotta Have It! Designer & Brand Names
- Marketing to Teens: Marketing Tactics
- Marketing to Teens: Talking Back
- Miscast and Seldom Seen
- Popular Music and Music Videos
- Selling Obesity
- Selling Tobacco
- Sports Personalities in Magazine Advertising
- The Impact of Gender Stereotypes
- Tobacco Labels
Perceiving, Reflecting and Responding
Overall Expectations
GCO 5: Students will apply critical thinking and problem-solving strategies to reflect on and respond to their own and others’ expressive work.
Specific Expectations
11.5.1 describe, analyse, interpret, and evaluate art works using appropriate art terminology
11.5.2 analyze the relationship between elements and principles of design in art and the natural and built environments
11.5.3 critically examine context, content, concept and subject matter in their own and others’ art
11.5.4 articulate and support personal aesthetic responses that demonstrate critical reflection
11.5.5 reflect on how personal experience, background, cultural beliefs, and values influence how we perceive and create works of art
11.5.6 examine the development of artwork from conception to completion and assess the relationship between intention and outcome
MediaSmarts Resources
Lessons
- Beyond Media Messages: Media Portrayal of Global Development
- Camera Shots
- Exposing Gender Stereotypes
- First Person
- Gender and Tobacco
- Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
- Hate 2.0
- Kellogg Special K Ads
- Learning Gender Stereotypes
- Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising
- Marketing to Teens: Gotta Have It! Designer & Brand Names
- Marketing to Teens: Marketing Tactics
- Marketing to Teens: Talking Back
- Miscast and Seldom Seen
- Popular Music and Music Videos
- Selling Obesity
- Selling Tobacco
- Sports Personalities in Magazine Advertising
- The Impact of Gender Stereotypes
- Tobacco Labels