Outcome Chart - NWT - Knowledge and Employability Social Studies Grade 10

Living in a Globalizing World

• Students will explore the impacts of globalization on their lives
• Students will explore economic, environmental and other impacts of globalization
• Students will examine their roles and responsibilities as citizens in a globalizing world

Lessons

• Crime in the News
• Deconstructing Web Pages
• Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
• Hoax? Scholarly Research? Personal Opinion? You Decide!
• Online Marketing to Kids: Protecting Your Privacy
• Thinking About Hate
• TV Dads: Immature and Irresponsible?
• What Students Need to Know about Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy

Skills and Processes for Social Studies

DIMENSIONS OF THINKING

Students will:
develop skills of critical thinking and creative thinking:

• investigate local and global current events from a variety of perspectives and examine how these perspectives can shape understanding
• examine the validity of information, based on context, bias, sources, objectivity, evidence and reliability
• examine ways in which a society’s culture may be reflected in a variety of forms; e.g., artwork, oral stories and dance.

RESEARCH FOR DELIBERATIVE INQUIRY

Students will:
apply the research process:

• access and select different points of view, using a variety of sources
• demonstrate responsible and ethical use of information and technology
• select information from appropriate sources, including primary and secondary sources
• distinguish fact from opinion in a variety of information sources; e.g., media reports and accounts
• interpret ideas and information to compare and contrast perspectives; e.g., bias, racism, prejudice, validity and authenticity

COMMUNICATION

Students will:
demonstrate skills of oral, visual and textual literacy:

• use communication technology to interact with others

develop skills of media literacy:

• examine the values, lifestyles and points of view represented in media messages
• recognize that differences in perspectives can exist in media sources
• examine the impact media has on human thought
• understand the nature of various media and the ways in which they are consciously used to influence an audience
• assess the authority, reliability and validity of electronically accessed information
• analyze the validity of various points of view in media messages
• analyze information from multiple sources, evaluating each source in terms of the author’s perspective or bias and use of evidence