Creating 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
6.1.1 create imagery that demonstrates an understanding of the expressive qualities of the elements and principles of design
MediaSmarts Resources
- Avatars and Body Image
- Comic Book Characters
- Earth Day: Maps as Media
- Looking at Food Advertising
- Looks Good Enough to Eat
- Media Kids
- TV Stereotypes
Understanding and Connecting Contexts of Time, Place and Community
Overall Expectations
GCO 3: Students will examine the relationship among the arts, societies, and environments.
Specific Expectations
6.3.1 investigate the relationship between the visual arts and other subjects
6.3.3 recognize that our response to art is strongly influenced by our experiences
6.3.5 consider the moral and ethical issues involved in reproducing work
MediaSmarts Resources
- Avatars and Body Image
- Image Gap
- Looks Good Enough to Eat
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 3: Audiences negotiate meaning
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 4: Media have commercial implications
- Mirror Image
- Tobacco Labels
- Up, Up and Away? (TM)
Understanding and Connecting Contexts of Time, Place and Community
Overall Expectations
GCO 4: Students will demonstrate critical awareness of and value for the role of the arts in creating and reflecting culture
Specific Expectations
6.4.2 investigate how visual communication systems are a part of everyday life
6.4.3 use experiences from their personal, social, and physical environments as a basis for visual expression
6.4.4 understand the past events, the way people live, and the visual arts influence one another
6.4.5 demonstrate an awareness of how visual art is used in their school and community
6.4.6 investigate the roles of artists in their community and potential careers available to those trained in the visual arts
MediaSmarts Resources
- Advertising All Around Us
- Avatars and Body Image
- Earth Day: Maps as Media
- Freedom to Smoke
- Junk Food Jungle
- 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
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 2: Media are constructions
- Mirror Image
- Teaching TV: Film Production: Who Does What?
- TV Stereotypes
- Villains, Heroes and Heroines
- You’ve Gotta Have a Gimmick
Perceiving, Reflecting and Responding
Overall Expectations
GCO 6: Students will apply critical thinking and problem-solving strategies to reflect on and respond to their own and others’ expressive works.
Specific Expectations
6.6.2 analyse others’ artwork to form conclusions about formal properties, cultural contexts, and intent
6.6.3 use descriptive art language to analyse, interpret, and respond to their own and others’ work
6.6.4 examine artworks to determine how elements and principles of design were used
6.6.5 recognize the relationship between seeing, feeling, and thinking by analysing and interpreting their own and others’ work
MediaSmarts Resources
- Advertising All Around Us
- Avatars and Body Image
- Earth Day: Maps as Media
- Freedom to Smoke
- Junk Food Jungle
- 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
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 2: Media are constructions
- Mirror Image
- Teaching TV: Film Production: Who Does What?
- TV Stereotypes
- Villains, Heroes and Heroines
- You’ve Gotta Have a Gimmick