Quebec Competencies Chart - Healthy Food Web

Author: Matthew Johnson, Director of Education, MediaSmarts
Level: Grades 2 to 3
Lesson Length: 1-2 hours
Lesson Link: http://mediasmarts.ca/teacher-resources/healthy-food-web

Description: In this lesson, students consider the role of snack foods in a healthy diet. The teacher then guides them on a tour of popular sites aimed at children, where the class identifies and classifies the advertising encountered there and looks at how the food products being advertised fit – or don’t fit – in the food groups found in the Canada Food Guide. Students then play the game Co-Co’s AdverSmarts to understand some of the techniques used by online food marketers and then create their own mock website promoting a healthy diet.

Cross-curricular Competencies

Broad Areas of Learning

To use information
To exercise critical judgement
To use creativity
To use information and communication technologies (ICT)
To communicate appropriately

Media Literacy
Health and Well-Being
Environmental Awareness and Consumer Rights and Responsibilities

This lesson satisfies the following Competencies from the Quebec Education Program:

English Language Arts

To Read and Listen to Literary, Popular and Information-Based Texts

To use a response process when reading and listening to literary, popular, and information-based texts
To construct her/his own view of the world through reading and listening to literary, popular and information-based texts
To construct a profile of self as reader
To self-evaluate her/his reading development
To construct meaning by applying appropriate reading strategies

To Represent Her/His Literacy in Different Media

To apply appropriate strategies for constructing meaning
To self-evaluate her/his development as a viewer and producer of media texts
To follow a process to respond to media texts
To construct her/his own view of the world through the media
To follow a production process in order to communicate for specific purposes to a specified audience

To Use Language to Communicate and Learn

To use language (talk) to communicate information, experiences and point of view
To self-evaluate her/his language development
To use language (talk) for learning and thinking
To apply her/his knowledge of linguistic structures and features
To interact in collaborative group activities in a variety of roles

Visual Arts

To produce media works in the visual arts

To use creative ideas inspired by a stimulus for creation of media works
To share his/her experience of media creation
To use transforming gestures and elements of visual arts language according to the message and the intended viewer
To organize the elements that he/she has chosen, depending on the message and the intended viewer
To finalize his/her media creation

Physical Education and Health

To develop a healthy, active lifestyle

To analyze the impact of some personal lifestyle habits on own health and well-being
To assess the results of the plan
To develop a plan in order to change some personal lifestyle habits
To carry out a plan in order to change some personal lifestyle habits