Grade 5 Overall Expectations:
Demonstrate an understanding of a variety of media texts;
- Beanz (magazine)
- Wacky but True (magazine)
- Hublot (Kanopy)
- Time for Kids (website)
- Game time (website)
- Newspaper ads (website)
Identify some media forms and explain how the conventions and techniques associated with them are used to create meaning;
- Cyberbullying (Book)
- Safe Social Networking (book)
- Cell Phone Safety (book)
- Fake or foto? (website)
- Fake- out News Literacy (website)
- Junk food jungle (website)
- Internet Safety Tips (website)
- Safe Web Surfing: Top Tips for Kids and Teens Online (YouTube)
- What Are Databases and Why You Need Them (YouTube)
Create a variety of media texts for different purposes and audiences, using appropriate forms, conventions, and techniques;
- The Art of Making Comic Books (book)
- Lights, Camera, Action! (book)
- The Kid’s Guide to Digital Photography (book)
- How to Create Animation in 10 Easy Lessons (book)
- Building Apps (book)
- Current Events and Daily News Worksheet (website)
- Stay on the path – one (website)
- Stay on the path- two (website)
- Stay on the path- three (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.
- TV Takeover (book)
- Virtually True (book)
- Pretty In Print (book)
- Coming Distractions (book)
- Are Too Many Satellites in Space? (website)
- Time’s person of the year: Greta Thunberg (website)
- A Journey to Media Literacy (YouTube)
- Reference Materials Part 1 (YouTube)
- Reference Materials Part 2 (YouTube)
- Source Evaluation (website)