This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Northwest Territories Grade 3 Social Studies curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the Media Awareness Network site.

Managing Information and Ideas

Overall Expectations Information-management skills enable students to access, select, organize, and record information and ideas, using a variety of sources, tools, and technologies. These skills include inquiry and research skills that enhance historical and geographical thinking. Specific Expectations Students will... Gather information from oral, visual, material, or print sources. Use tools and technologies to accomplish given tasks.

Lessons Comparing Real Families to TV Families Facing TV Violence: Consequences and Media Violence Facing TV Violence: Counting & Discussing Violence on the Screen Facing TV Violence: Rewriting the Script Humour on Television Introducing the Internet: Exploring the Internet  Introducing the Internet: Messages, Envelopes, Addresses  Introducing the Internet: Telephones and Networks  Introducing TV Families   Looking at Newspapers: Introduction  Newspaper Ads   Packaging Tricks Prejudice and Body Image Privacy Playground Sheroes and Heroes  Teaching TV: Critically Evaluating TV Teaching TV: Enjoying Television Teaching TV: Film Production: Who Does What?  Teaching TV: Learning With Television Teaching TV: Television as a Story Teller Teaching TV: Television Techniques The Broadcast Project TV Stereotypes  Villains, Heroes and Heroines