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Graphic
Other

Newseum: Photographs Can Lie

For Students 9th - 10th
Exhibition of doctored photographs from the Stalin era titled "The Commissar Vanishes."
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Lesson Plan: Persuasive Techniques in Advertising

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
During this unit, students will learn about many different advertising techniques. Students will investigate the "art of rhetoric" and analyze many print, television, and online advertisements. Using the site's online tools, groups will...
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PPT
Austin Independent School District

Austin Independent School District: Tools of Persuasion [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 8th
A slide presentation giving an explanation and example of nine different persuasive techniques including appeal to emotion, appeal to authority, urgency, and more.
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EL Education

El Education: Reshaping Rochester: Spreading the Word Brochure

For Teachers 6th - 8th
After learning about the effects of re-watering a dry water way in their city, students create a brochure to highlight the information they gathered and boost public support for this project in their community.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Propaganda

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A twelve-part learning module with links to images that demonstrate various types of propaganda.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Advertising Ethics

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module with links to seventy-six images, videos, and websites to use while learning about ethics in advertising.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Persuasive Techniques in Media

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Links to nine videos demonstrating different persuasive techniques used in the media.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Propaganda Schemes

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Chock full of many interactive tools and strategies, this interdisciplinary language arts and health lesson is set up like a WebQuest. Students are led through the evaluation of techniques used by...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Becoming an Effective Listener

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart focuses on the traits of an effective listener and the identification of popular logical fallacies and propaganda techniques. In addition, there is an Activote at the end to check student...
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Identifying Bias

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson explains how to identify an author's bias. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content. An additional link is also provided to supplement this lesson on bias.
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Website
Other

Global Issues: War, Propaganda, and the Media

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource has an incredible amount of information regarding propaganda. Includes links to numerous topics with propaganda analysis. Offers unique perspectives that challenge the reader to question commonly held beliefs.
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Handout
Other

Definitions of Propaganda Techniques

For Students 9th - 10th
Part of a WebQuest called Persuasion Quest, this page gives simple definitions for 8 different types of propaganda techniques.
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Article
Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: Committee on Public Information Facts

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive summary with detailed facts about the propaganda techniques used in WW1.
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Handout
Other

Calvin: 1935 Nazi Propaganda for Rearmament

For Students 9th - 10th
This site displays four examples of German propaganda for rearmament. Analysis of the propaganda is also provided.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Clip Art by Phillip Martin: Propaganda

For Students 3rd - 8th
A clipart illustration by Phillip Martin titled "Propaganda."