Creating, Making 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
9.1.1 manipulate and organize design elements and principles to achieve planned compositions
9.1.2 assess and utilize the properties of various art media and their ability to convey messages and meaning
9.1.3 create artworks, integrating themes found through direct observation, personal experience, and imagination
9.1.4 respond verbally and visually to the use of art elements in personal works and the works of others
9.1.5 analyse and use a variety of image development techniques (e.g. distortion, metamorphosis, fragmentation)
9.1.6 demonstrate increasing complexity in art skills and techniques
MediaSmarts Resources
Lessons
- Alcohol Myths
- Alcohol on the Web
- Camera Shots
- First Person
- Gender and Tobacco
- Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
- Kellogg Special K Ads
- Learning Gender Stereotypes
- Marketing to Teens: Alternate Ads
- Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising
- Marketing to Teens: Gotta Have It! Designer & Brand Names
- Online Propaganda and the Proliferation of Hate
- Political Cartoons
- Popular Music and Music Videos
- Selling Obesity
- Selling Tobacco
- Sports Personalities in Magazine Advertising
- The Price of Happiness
- Tobacco Labels
- Video Games
- Watching the Elections
Overall Expectations
GCO 2: Students will be expected to create and/or present, collaboratively and independently, expressive products in the arts for a range of audiences and purposes.
Specific Expectations
9.2.1 invent and incorporate unique visual symbols to create personal meaning in their art
9.2.2 analyse and make use of visual, spatial, and temporal concepts in creating art images
9.2.3 select, critique, and organize a display of personally meaningful images from their own portfolio
9.2.4 acknowledge and respect individual approaches to and opinions of art
9.2.5 work interactively, cooperatively, and collaboratively
MediaSmarts Resources
Lessons
- Alcohol Myths
- Alcohol on the Web
- Camera Shots
- First Person
- Gender and Tobacco
- Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
- Kellogg Special K Ads
- Learning Gender Stereotypes
- Marketing to Teens: Alternate Ads
- Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising
- Marketing to Teens: Gotta Have It! Designer & Brand Names
- Online Propaganda and the Proliferation of Hate
- Political Cartoons
- Popular Music and Music Videos
- Selling Obesity
- Selling Tobacco
- Sports Personalities in Magazine Advertising
- The Price of Happiness
- Tobacco Labels
- Video Games
- Watching the Elections
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
9.3.1 examine the role and the influence of visual images in their daily lives, including mass media and popular culture
9.3.2 evaluate visual communication systems as a part of daily life
9.3.3 through their own art develop concepts and imagery based on personal ideas and experience
9.3.4 recognize and describe the role of the visual arts in challenging, sustaining, and reflecting society’s beliefs and traditions
9.3.5 identify opportunities to participate in the visual arts in school, community, and the world of work
MediaSmarts Resources
Lessons
- Alcohol on the Web
- Camera Shots
- First Person
- Gender and Tobacco
- Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
- Kellogg Special K Ads
- Learning Gender Stereotypes
- Marketing to Teens: Alternate Ads
- Marketing to Teens: Gotta Have It! Designer & Brand Names
- Miscast and Seldom Seen
- Online Propaganda and the Proliferation of Hate
- Political Cartoons
- Popular Music and Music Videos
- Selling Obesity
- Selling Tobacco
- Tobacco Labels
- Video Games
- Watching the Elections
Overall Expectations
GCO 4: Students will be expected to respect the contributions to the arts of individuals and cultural groups in local and global contexts, and value the arts as a record of human experience and expression.
Specific Expectations
9.4.1 develop an appreciation of diversity among individuals as reflected in their artwork
9.4.2 recognize the existence of a variety of visual languages that reflect cultural, socio-economic, and national origins
9.4.3 recognize that, and investigate how art as a human activity emerges from human needs, values, beliefs, ideas, and experiences
9.4.4 create personally meaningful imagery that reflects influence from a variety of historical and contemporary artists
9.4.5 compare the characteristics of artwork from different cultures and periods in history
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Lessons
Overall Expectations
GCO 5: Students will be expected to examine the relationship among the arts, societies, and environments
Specific Expectations
9.5.1 draw upon other arts disciplines as a resource in the creation of their own art works
9.5.2 use, with confidence, experiences from their personal, social, cultural, and physical environments as a basis for visual expression
9.5.3 demonstrate an understanding of how individual and societal values affect our response to visual art
9.5.4 interpret visual parallels between the structures of natural and built environments
9.5.5 recognize and respect the ethical and moral considerations involved in copying works
MediaSmarts Resources
Lessons