What is Sexual Exploitation and Sex Trafficking and How Can I Stay Safe Online?

Gr 7-8 adaptation

Learning Objectives: 

• Making students aware of sex trafficking in Ontario and associated online risks 

• Providing concrete ways in which students can protect themselves from being targeted by sex traffickers in online spaces.

• Creating an outlet for advocacy against sex trafficking to prevent and end this crime

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Notes for Educators:

There are many myths surrounding sex trafficking. You will need to gauge the level of knowledge/awareness of your students and decide if you need to spend more time on certain areas of the lesson than others. Review the Preventing Sex Trafficking: Online Safety Tips - for educators to become more familiar with online safety strategies.

Curriculum Connections

Health and Physical Education. Gr 7 Active living, Healthy living:

• D1.1 describe benefits and dangers, for themselves and others, that are associated with the use of computers and other digital technologies, and identify protective responses.
  

• D2.2 assess the potential impact on themselves and others of various types of bullying, abuse, exploitation, or harassment, including homophobic bullying or harassment and other forms of identity-based bullying, and of the type of coercion that can occur in connection with sexting and online activities, and identify ways of preventing or resolving such incidents.

Visual Arts, Gr7

• D1.1 create art works, using a variety of traditional forms and current media technologies, that express feelings, ideas, and issues, including opposing points of view 

• D2.1 interpret a variety of art works and identify the feelings, issues, themes, and social concerns that they convey

Visual Arts. Grade 8

• D1.1 create art works, using a variety of traditional forms and current media technologies, that express feelings, ideas, and issues and that demonstrate an awareness of multiple points of view

• D2.1 interpret a variety of art works and identify the feelings, issues, themes, and social concerns that they convey

Media Literacy Grade 7

• 1.5 demonstrate understanding that different media texts reflect different points of view

• 1.6 identify who produces various media texts and determine the commercial, ideological, political, cultural, and/or artistic interests or perspectives that the texts may involve

Media Literacy Grade 8

• 1.2 interpret increasingly complex or difficult media texts, using overt and implied messages as evidence for their interpretations

• 1.6 identify who produces various media texts and determine the commercial, ideological, political, cultural, and/or artistic interests or perspectives that the texts may involve