Quebec Competencies Chart - Internet Time Capsule

Author: Matthew Johnson, Director of Education, MediaSmarts
Level: Grades K to 3
Lesson Length: 40 to 60 minutes
Lesson Link: http://mediasmarts.ca/teacher-resources/internet-time-capsule

Description: In this lesson, students learn about the concept of “time capsules” and then apply the idea by selecting time capsule contents to represent both the time they live in and their own lives and tastes. They then extend this idea to online content, making a “time capsule” of any online content connected to them. Younger students finish the lesson by creating a group Internet time capsule, while older students finish by considering what online content they might like to remove or keep out of their “time capsules.”

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 construct his/her identity
To cooperate with others
To communicate appropriately

Media Literacy
Citizenship and Community Life

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 Write Self-expressive, Narrative and Information-based Texts

To integrate her/his knowledge of texts into own writing
To self-evaluate her/his writing development
To follow a process when writing
To construct profile of self as writer
To use writing as a system for communicating and constructing meaning

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

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