Creating, Making and Presenting
Overall Expectations:
GCO 1: explore, challenge, develop and express ideas using the skills, language, techniques and processes of the arts
Specific Expectations:
1.3 Assess and utilize the properties of various art media and their ability to convey messages and meaning
1.6 Create artworks, integrating themes found through direct observation, personal experience and imagination
MediaSmarts Resources
- Art Exchange
- Digital Storytelling for Civic Engagement
- Impact! How to Make a Difference When You Witness Bullying Online
- Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising
- Marketing to Teens: Parody Ads - Lesson
- Privacy Rights of Children and Teens
- Reality Check: Authentication 101
- Relationships and Sexuality in the Media
- Secure Comics
- The Price of Happiness
Overall Expectations:
GCO2: create and/or present, collaboratively and independently expressive products in the arts for a range of audiences
Specific Expectations:
2.2 Analyze and make use of visual, spatial and temporal concepts in creating art images
MediaSmarts Resources
- Art Exchange
- Camera Shots
- Digital Storytelling for Civic Engagement
- Gender and Tobacco
- Impact! How to Make a Difference When You Witness Bullying Online
- Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising
- Marketing to Teens: Parody Ads - Lesson
- Privacy Rights of Children and Teens
- Reality Check: Authentication 101
- Video Games
Overall Expectations:
GCO 3: demonstrate critical awareness of and value for the role of the arts in creating and reflecting culture
Specific Expectations:
3.1 Examine the role and influence of visual images in their daily lives, including mass media and popular culture
3.3 Through their artmaking, develop concepts and imagery based on personal ideas and experiences
MediaSmarts Resources
- Art Exchange
- Digital Storytelling for Civic Engagement
- Impact! How to Make a Difference When You Witness Bullying Online
- Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising
- Marketing to Teens: Parody Ads - Lesson
- Privacy Rights of Children and Teens
- Reality Check: Authentication 101
- Relationships and Sexuality in the Media
- Secure Comics
- The Price of Happiness
- Kellogg Special K Ads
Understanding and Connecting Contexts of Time, Place and Community
Overall Expectations:
GCO 5: examine the relationship among the arts, societies and environments
Specific Expectations:
5.4 Recognize and respect the ethical and moral considerations involved in copying works
5.5 Demonstrate an understanding of how individual and societal values affect our response to visual art
MediaSmarts Resources
Perceiving and Responding
Overall Expectations:
GCO 7: understand the role of technologies in creating and responding to expressive works
Specific Expectations:
7.3 Evaluate and use various media and technological processes for their sensory qualities and ability to convey messages and meaning
7.4 Realize the direct influence expanding technology has had and continues to have on the individual and society