Quebec Competencies Chart - Stay on the Path Lesson Three: Treasure Maps

Author: MediaSmarts
Level: Grades 5 to 6
Lesson Link: http://mediasmarts.ca/lessonplan/stay-path-lesson-three-treasure-maps

Description: This four-lesson unit on search skills and critical thinking teaches students how to target and specify their online searches to avoid unwanted results, how to judge whether a link, search result or website is legitimate or phony, and how to find legitimate sources online for media works such as music, videos and movies.

Cross-curricular Competencies

Broad Areas of Learning
  • To use information
  • To solve problems
  • To exercise critical judgement
  • To use information and communication technologies (ICT)
  • Media Literacy

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