Grade 3 Overall Expectations:
Demonstrate an understanding of a variety of media texts;
- How it Works (Magazine)
- How it Works (Overdrive Digital Magazine)
- Wacky but True (Magazine)
- Beanz (Magazine)
- Roberto the Insect Architect (Kanopy eVideo)
- Book Fair Day (YouTube)
- What is Media? (YouTube)
Identify some media forms and explain how the conventions and techniques associated with them are used to create meaning;
- Everything Castles (Book)
- 5000 Awesome Facts (about Everything!) (Book)
- National Geographic for Kids (Magazine)
- National Geographic for Kids (Overdrive Digital Magazine)
- Talking to kids about Advertising (Website)
- Dealing with Marketing (Website)
- Can you spot the ad? (Website)
Create a variety of media texts for different purposes and audiences, using appropriate forms, conventions, and techniques;
- Privacy Playground (Website)
- Hidden Ads (Website)
- Viral Marketing (Website)
- Eating under the rainbow: (Website)
- Comparing real families to TV families: (Website)
Reflect on and identify their strengths as media interpreters and creators, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful in understanding and creating media texts.
- Learning About Primary Resources (Book)
- Learning about Plagiarism (Book)
- Break the fake: What’s real online: (Website)
- Media and Empathy(Website)
- Media are Constructions (YouTube)
- Mediums of Media (YouTube)