Creating and Presenting
Overall Expectations
Apply the creative process to produce a variety of two- and three-dimensional artworks, using elements, principles, and techniques of visual arts to communicate feelings, ideas, and understandings.
Specific Expectations
- create two- and three-dimensional, and multimedia artworks that explore feelings, ideas and issues from a variety of points of view
- demonstrate an understanding of composition, using selected principles of art and design to create narrative artworks on a theme or topic
- use elements of art and design in artworks to communicate ideas, messages, and understanding
MediaSmarts Resources
Lessons
- Avatars and Body Image
- Comic Book Characters
- Cop Shows
- Girls and Boys on Television
- Images of Learning
- Looking at Food Advertising
- Looks Good Enough to Eat
- Media Kids
- Online Marketing to Kids: Strategies and Techniques
- Teaching TV: Film Production: Who Does What?
- Tobacco Labels
- TV Dads: Immature and Irresponsible?
- Video Production of a Newscast
- Winning the Cyber Security Game
- Writing a Newspaper Article
- You’ve Gotta Have a Gimmick
Reflecting, Responding and Analysing
Overall Expectations
Apply the critical analysis process to communicate feelings, ideas, and understandings in response to a variety of artworks and art expressions.
Specific Expectations
- interpret a variety of artworks and identify the feelings, issues, themes, and social concerns that they convey
- explain how the elements and principles of art and design are used in their own and others’ artworks to communicate meaning or understanding
- demonstrate an understanding of how to read and interpret signs, symbols, and style in artworks
MediaSmarts Resources
Lessons
- “He Shoots, He Scores”: Alcohol Advertising and Sports
- Advertising All Around Us
- Avatars and Body Image
- Comic Book Characters
- Cop Shows
- Freedom to Smoke
- Girls and Boys on Television
- Image Gap
- Images of Learning
- Junk Food Jungle
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 1: Messages About Drinking
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 2: Young Drinkers
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 3: Understanding Brands
- Looking at Food Advertising
- Media literacy key concepts Introduction: What is media anyway?
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 2: Media are constructions
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 3: Audiences negotiate meaning
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 4: Media have commercial implications
- Mirror Image
- Prejudice and Body Image
- Stereotyping and Bias
- The Constructed World of Television Families
- TV Stereotypes
- Villains, Heroes and Heroines
Exploring Forms and Cultural Contexts
Overall Expectations
Demonstrate an understanding of a variety of art forms, styles, and techniques from the past and present, and their social and/or community contexts.
Specific Expectations
- identify and describe some of the ways in which art forms and styles reflect the beliefs and traditions of a variety of communities, times, and places
- demonstrate an understanding of key contributions and functions of visual and media arts in various contexts at both the local and the national levels
MediaSmarts Resources
Lessons