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Ontario Outcome Chart: History Since World War I - Grade 10 Academic

This chart contains media-related learning outcomes from Ontario, Curriculum for History Since World War I, Grade 10 Academic, with links to supporting resources on the Media Awareness Network site.

Communities: Local, National, and Global

Overall Expectations

  • analyse the impact of external forces and events on Canada and it policies since 1914

Specific Expectations

  • describe some of the ways in which American culture and politics have influenced Canada since World War I (e.g., movies, magazines, television, the Internet, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., George W. Bush);

  • explain the impact in Canada of the experience and memory or the Holocaust (e.g., immigration of Holocaust survivors; introduction of human rights legislation; policy dealing with hate crimes and Nazi war criminals; nature of response to occurrences of genocide/ethnic cleansing in the world after World War II; participation in International War Crimes tribunal);

  • identify contributions to Canada’s multicultural society by regional, linguistic, ethnocultural, and religious communities (e.g.,Aboriginal peoples, Franco-Ontarians, Métis, Black Canadians, Doukhobors, Mennonites, local immigrantcommunities)
Lessons

Comparing Crime Dramas

Defining Popular Culture

Resource Racket: A Global Perspective on Resources and Consumption

Selling Obesity

Tobacco Advertising in Canada

And Now a Word From Our Sponsor

Free Speech Versus the Internet

Challenging Hate

Thinking About HateUnderstanding Online Hate

Propaganda Techniques on Hate Sites

 

Change and Continuity

Overall Expectations

  • analyse the impact of scientific and technological developments on Canadians

Specific Expectations

  • describe various ways in which technological developments have affected the lives of Canadians since World War I (e.g., telephones, cars, airplanes, radio, television, nuclear arms and nuclear power, satellites, computers, the Internet, developments in petrochemicals and biotechnology)
Lessons

Earth Day

Hurricane Katrina and the Internet

TV Turnoff Week

 

Methods of Historical Inquiry and Communication

Overall Expectations

  • interpret and analyse information gathered through research, employing concepts and approaches appropriate to historical inquiry

Specific Expectations

Research

  • evaluate the credibility of sources and information (e.g., by considering the authority, impartiality, and expertise of the source and checking the information for accuracy, underlying assumptions, stereotypes, prejudice, and bias)

Interpretation and Analysis

  • distinguish between fact, opinion and inference in texts and visuals found in primary and secondary sources
  • identify different viewpoints and explicit biases when interpreting information for research or when participating in a discussion

Lessons

A Tale of Two Cities

Bias

Deconstructing Web Pages


Finding and Authenticating Online Information on Global Development Issues

ICYou See: A Lesson in Critical Thinking

Hurricane Katrina and the "Two-Photo Controversy"

Hurricane Katrina and the Internet

Thinking About Hate

Hoax? Scholarly Research? Personal Opinion? You Decide!

MNet Special Initiatives
 
Fact or Folly: Authenticating Online Information

Related MNet Resources

Backgrounders

Internet Glossary: Authenticating Online Information

How to Search the Internet Effectively

The Five W's of Cyberspace

Quick Tips for Authenticating Online Information

Evaluating Internet Research Sources

Evaluating Internet-Based Information: A Goals-Based Approach


Tip Sheets

How to Discourage Plagiarism

Professional Development

Reality Check: Evaluating Online Information



 
Ontario - History 10 Academic - Outcome Chart  

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