Grade 5 Overall Expectations:
Demonstrate an understanding of a variety of media texts;
- Beanz (Magazine)
- Wacky but True (Magazine)
- Mr. Hublot (Kanopy eVideo)
- Time for Kids (Website)
- Game time (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)