Strand: Uqausiliriniq
Overall Expectations:
1. listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to access and explore prior knowledge and experiences of self and others.
Specific Expectations:
1.1.1 Seek others’ viewpoints to reflect on personal understanding
1.2.1 Use prior knowledge and experiences selectively to make sense of new information in a variety of contexts
1.2.2 Explain the importance of linking personal perceptions to others’ understandings
MediaSmarts Resources
- “He Shoots, He Scores”: Alcohol Advertising and Sports
- Avatars and Body Image
- Behaving Ethically Online: Ethics and Empathy
- Comic Book Characters
- Comparing Real Families to TV Families
- Freedom to Smoke
- Girls and Boys on Television
- Image Gap
- Introducing TV Families
- Introduction to Ethics: Avatars and Identity
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 1: Messages About Drinking
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 2: Young Drinkers
- Media Kids
- Mirror Image
- Once Upon a Time - Lesson
- Packaging Tricks - Lesson
- Prejudice and Body Image
- Stereotyping and Bias
- Taking Charge of TV Violence
- The Anatomy of Cool
- The Constructed World of Media Families
- Thinking About Television and Movies - Lesson
- TV Stereotypes
- Understanding the Internet Lesson 4: Communication and Social Media
- Villains, Heroes and Heroines
- Violence in Sports
- What do Halloween costumes say? - Lesson
Overall Expectations:
2. listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to comprehend and respond personally and critically to oral, print, and other media texts, through a process.
Specific Expectations:
2.1.1 Use prior knowledge and connections between self and texts (oral, print, and other media) to expand personal understanding
2.1.2 Anticipate meaning of oral, print, and other media texts; use comprehension strategies to construct, confirm, revise, and explain understanding
2.1.3 Use textual cues to construct and confirm meaning in oral, print, and other media texts
2.1.4 Use vocabulary, language structure, and context to construct meaning of oral, print, and other media texts
2.2.1 Explore a variety of oral, print, and other media texts
2.2.2 Respond to oral, print, and other media texts creatively and critically
2.2.3 Develop personal perspective of cultural representations in texts (oral, print, and other media)
2.3.1 Talk about the relationship between genre/form and audience/purpose in texts (oral, print, and other media)
2.3.2 Listen to, read, and view texts (oral, print, and other media) to understand how the techniques and elements interact to create effects
2.3.3 Talk about authors’ use of voice, vocabulary, elements or techniques in a variety of oral, print, and other media texts
MediaSmarts Resources
- “He Shoots, He Scores”: Alcohol Advertising and Sports
- Advertising All Around Us
- Avatars and Body Image
- Comic Book Characters
- Comparing Real Families to TV Families
- Editing Emotions
- Elections and the Media
- Freedom to Smoke
- Girls and Boys on Television
- Image Gap
- Introducing TV Families
- Introduction to Ethics: Avatars and Identity
- Junk Food Jungle
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising - Lesson 4: Interpreting Media Messages
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 1: Messages About Drinking
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 2: Young Drinkers
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 3: Understanding Brands
- Looks Good Enough to Eat
- Media Kids
- Media literacy key concepts lesson 6: Each medium is a unique aesthetic form
- Mirror Image
- Once Upon a Time - Lesson
- Packaging Tricks - Lesson
- Prejudice and Body Image
- Stereotyping and Bias
- Taking Charge of TV Violence
- Teaching TV: Learning With Television - Lesson
- Teaching TV: Television as a Story Teller - Lesson
- The Anatomy of Cool
- The Constructed World of Media Families
- Thinking About Television and Movies - Lesson
- TV Stereotypes
- Villains, Heroes and Heroines
- You’ve Gotta Have a Gimmick
Overall Expectations:
3. listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to plan and focus an inquiry or research and interpret and analyze information and ideas, through a process.
Specific Expectations:
3.1.1 Summarize personal knowledge of a topic in categories to determine information needs in own and group inquiry
3.1.2 Formulate general and specific questions to identify information needs in own and group inquiry
3.1.3 Gather and record ideas and information using a plan for own and group inquiry
3.2.1 Use relevant information from a variety of sources to answer inquiry or research questions
3.2.2 Determine the usefulness of information for inquiry or research purpose and focus using pre-established criteria
3.2.3 Begins to match sources to inquiry or research focus
3.3.1 Organize information and ideas into categories using a variety of strategies
3.3.2 Record information in own words; cite authors and titles alphabetically and provide publication dates of sources
3.3.3 Recognize gaps in the information gathered and locate additional information needed for a particular form, audience, and purpose
3.3.4 Assess information and knowledge gained through the inquiry or research process; generate new questions for further inquiry
MediaSmarts Resources
- Break the Fake: What’s Real Online?
- Comparing Real Families to TV Families
- Stay on the Path Lesson One: Searching for Treasure
- Stay on the Path Lesson Two: All That Glitters is Not Gold
- Stay on the Path Lesson Three: Treasure Maps
- Stay on the Path Lesson Four: Scavenger Hunt
- The Hero Project: Authenticating Online Information
- Thinking About Television and Movies - Lesson
Overall Expectations:
4. listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to clarify and enhance oral, written, and visual forms of communication, through a process.
Specific Expectations:
4.1.1 Generate ideas and develop a topic using a variety of strategies
4.1.2 Use appropriate form (organizational structure, audience, purpose) to organize ideas and information
4.1.3 Create original texts (oral, print, and other media)
4.2.1 Use pre-established criteria to focus conversations about own and others’ texts and representations (oral, print, and other media)
4.2.2 Revise ideas and organization to match intended purpose and audience
4.2.4 Experiment with language to create desired effect in oral, print, and other media texts
4.4.1 Present and/or publish texts (oral, print, and other media)
MediaSmarts Resources
- Avatars and Body Image
- Comic Book Characters
- Comparing Real Families to TV Families
- Editing Emotions
- Girls and Boys on Television
- Image Gap
- Introducing TV Families
- Introduction to Ethics: Avatars and Identity
- Looks Good Enough to Eat
- Media Kids
- Media literacy key concepts lesson 6: Each medium is a unique aesthetic form
- Once Upon a Time - Lesson
- Packaging Tricks - Lesson
- Prejudice and Body Image
- Stereotyping and Bias
- Taking Charge of TV Violence
- Teaching TV: Learning With Television - Lesson
- Teaching TV: Television as a Story Teller - Lesson
- The Anatomy of Cool
- The Constructed World of Media Families
- Thinking About Television and Movies - Lesson
- TV Stereotypes
- Villains, Heroes and Heroines
- Violence in Sports
- You’ve Gotta Have a Gimmick
Overall Expectations:
5. listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to celebrate and build community within the home, school, workplace and wider society.
Specific Expectations:
5.1.1 Work in a variety of partnerships and groups to follow preestablished group processes through collaborative decision making
5.2.2 Describe how diversity is honoured and celebrated
5.2.3 Explore how context influences the selection of language and form when celebrating
MediaSmarts Resources
- Avatars and Body Image
- Comic Book Characters
- Comparing Real Families to TV Families
- Girls and Boys on Television
- Introducing TV Families
- Introduction to Ethics: Avatars and Identity
- Media Kids
- Mirror Image
- Once Upon a Time - Lesson
- Prejudice and Body Image
- Stereotyping and Bias
- The Constructed World of Media Families
- TV Stereotypes
- Villains, Heroes and Heroines
- What do Halloween costumes say? - Lesson