Creating, Making and Presenting
Overall Expectations
GCO 1: Students will explore, challenge, develop, and express ideas, using the skills, language, techniques, and processes of the arts.
Specific Expectations
3.1.2 create images based on sensory experiences and imagination that express a mood, feeling, or emotional response and convey personal meaning
3.1.3 visually communicate stories, ideas, and experiences, using a variety of materials
MediaSmarts Resources
- Representing Ourselves Online
- Rules of the Game
- Facing TV Violence: Rewriting the Script
- Looking at Food Advertising
- Adversmarts: Understanding Food Advertising Online
- Healthy Food Web
- TV Stereotypes
Overall Expectations
GCO 2: Students will create and/or present, collaboratively and independently, expressive products in the arts for a range of audiences and purposes.
Specific Expectations
3.2.1 create art for a variety of reasons and recognize that there are many kinds of visual arts
3.2.2 choose, display, and describe work from their portfolio
3.2.3 develop skills in interaction, co-operation, and collaboration through working with others in making visual images
MediaSmarts Resources
- Representing Ourselves Online
- Rules of the Game
- Facing TV Violence: Rewriting the Script
- Looking at Food Advertising
- Adversmarts: Understanding Food Advertising Online
- Healthy Food Web
- TV Stereotypes
Understanding and Connecting Contexts of Time, Place and Community
Overall Expectations
GCO 3: Students will
be expected to demonstrate critical awareness of and value for the role of the arts in creating and reflecting culture
Specific Expectations
3.3.1 demonstrate an awareness of visual images and their daily effects on people
3.3.2 identify visual communication in daily life
3.3.3 make images that reflect their culture and community
3.3.4 explore images from a variety of historical and cultural contexts
MediaSmarts Resources
- Adversmarts: Understanding Food Advertising Online
- Can You Spot the Ad?
- Co-Co’s Adversmarts
- Healthy Food Web
- Looking at Food Advertising
- Prejudice and Body Image
- Representing Ourselves Online
Overall Expectations
GCO 5: Students will
- be expected to examine the relationship among the arts, societies, and environments
Specific Expectations
3.5.1 understand that there are
- relationships and commonalities between the visual arts and other arts (e.g. repetition in music)
3.5.2 view and discuss objects and images in their community
3.5.4 investigate artwork from the past (e.g. portraits, landscapes, social documentary) and relate it to their art
MediaSmarts Resources
- Adversmarts: Understanding Food Advertising Online
- Can You Spot the Ad?
- Co-Co’s Adversmarts
- Healthy Food Web
- Looking at Food Advertising
- Prejudice and Body Image
- Representing Ourselves Online
Perceiving, Reflecting and Responding
Overall Expectations
GCO 8: Students will
be expected to analyse the relationship between artistic intent and the expressive work.
Specific Expectations
3.8.1
recognize that images are developed for a variety of purposes, and discuss their own intentions in creating art objects
3.8.4 view and discuss the works of others and consider the intentions of
those who made them
MediaSmarts Resources