Creative/Productive (CP)
Overall Expectations
Students will inquire, create, and communicate through dance, drama, music, and visual art.
Specific Expectations
CP9.6 Express perspectives and raise awareness about a topic of concern to youth in a collective creation.
CP9.10 Create visual art works to express perspectives and raise awareness about a topic of concern to youth.
MediaSmarts Resources
Lessons
- Alcohol Myths
- Gender and Tobacco
- Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising
- Online Marketing to Kids: Strategies and Techniques
- The Price of Happiness
- Tobacco Labels
- Watching the Elections
- Writing a Newspaper Article
Critical/Responsive
Overall Expectations
Students will respond to artistic expressions of Saskatchewan, Canadian, and International artists using critical thinking, research, creativity, and collaborative inquiry.
Specific Expectations
CR9.1 Respond to professional dance, drama, music, and visual art works through individual or collaborative inquiry and the creation of own arts expressions.
CR9.2 Investigate and identify ways that today’s arts expressions can inspire change.
CR9.3 Investigate and identify how arts expressions can challenge thinking about values, ideas, and beliefs.
MediaSmarts Resources
Lessons
- Beyond Media Messages: Media Portrayal of Global Development
- Bias and Crime in Media
- Bias in News Sources
- Celebrities and World Issues
- Challenging Hate Online
- Crime in the News
- Diversity and Media Ownership
- Exposing Gender Stereotypes
- Finding and Authenticating Online Information on Global Development Issues
- Hate 2.0
- Hate or Debate
- Kellogg Special K Ads
- Marketing to Teens: Talking Back
- Miscast and Seldom Seen
- Perceptions of Youth and Crime
- Scapegoating and Othering
- Shaking the Movers: Youth Rights and Media
- The Citizen Reporter
- The Girl in the Mirror
- Thinking about Hate
- Watching the Elections
- Who’s Telling My Story?
Cultural/Historical
Overall Expectations
Students will investigate the content and aesthetics of the arts within cultural, historical, and contemporary contexts and understand the connection between the arts and human experience.
Specific Expectations
CH9.1 Investigate and discuss the role of artists in raising awareness or taking action on topics of concern.
CH9.2 Use the arts to raise awareness on topics of concern to Indigenous artists in dance, drama, music, and visual arts.
CH9.3 Investigate diversity of artistic ideas, styles, and media in contemporary arts expressions.
MediaSmarts Resources
Lessons
- Beyond Media Messages: Media Portrayal of Global Development
- Bias and Crime in Media
- Bias in News Sources
- Celebrities and World Issues
- Challenging Hate Online
- Crime in the News
- Diversity and Media Ownership
- Exposing Gender Stereotypes
- Finding and Authenticating Online Information on Global Development Issues
- Hate 2.0
- Hate or Debate
- Kellogg Special K Ads
- Marketing to Teens: Talking Back
- Miscast and Seldom Seen
- Perceptions of Youth and Crime
- Scapegoating and Othering
- Shaking the Movers: Youth Rights and Media
- The Citizen Reporter
- The Girl in the Mirror
- Thinking about Hate
- Watching the Elections
- Who’s Telling My Story?