Creative/Productive
Create drama using pop culture as inspiration (e.g., pop musicians and movie stars, street theatre, or stories and myths from pop culture).
MediaSmarts Resources
- Comic Book Characters
- Introducing TV Families
- Looks Good Enough to Eat
- TV Stereotypes
- You’ve Gotta Have a Gimmick
- Introduction to Cyberbullying: Avatars and Identity
Critical/Responsive
Examine the influence of pop culture on own lives and societies, and investigate the work of selected pop culture artists (e.g., Andy Warhol, popular musicians, movie stars, televised music and dance competitions).
Respond critically and creatively to a variety of pop culture expressions.
MediaSmarts Resources
- Advertising All Around Us
- Comic Book Characters
- Comparing Real Families to TV Families
- Freedom to Smoke
- Image Gap
- Junk Food Jungle
- Media Issue: Diversity in Media
- Media Issue: Gender Representation
- Mirror Image
- Prejudice and Body Image
- Put Downs
- Stereotyping and Bias
- The Anatomy of Cool
- The Constructed World of Television Families
- TV Stereotypes
- Villains, Heroes and Heroines
- What’s in a Word?
- Media Minute Introduction: What is media anyway?
- Media Minute Lesson 2: Media are constructions
- Avatars and Body Image
- Pay for Play
Cultural/Historical
Examine perspectives on contemporary life as expressed by artists in pop culture and mass media (e.g., representations of young people in ads, sitcoms, animations, and music videos).
Analyze and describe how arts and pop culture expressions convey information about the time and place in which they were created.
MediaSmarts Resources
- Comic Book Characters
- Comparing Real Families to TV Families
- Image Gap
- Media Issue: Diversity in Media
- Media Issue: Gender Representation
- Mirror Image
- Prejudice and Body Image
- Put Downs
- Stereotyping and Bias
- The Anatomy of Cool
- The Constructed World of Television Families
- TV Stereotypes
- Villains, Heroes and Heroines
- What’s in a Word?