Media Smarts is a wonderful resource for teaching your students about digital and media literacy. Their resources cover a wide range of themes and topics, including advertising, consumerism, citizenship, and gender, to name a few.
Their website is user-friendly and it’s easy to search their content by topic, grade level, and subject. Teachers will find lesson plans - complete with curriculum links and resources - as well as backgrounders and tip sheets to help approach sensitive topics. There are a number of lesson plans that link to provincial Social Studies curriculum and reinforce history content and challenge students’ analytical skills.
Check out some of these lesson plans:
Or visit MediaSmarts.ca to find many more great resources!