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Busting the Tobacco Ads.

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders recognize that tobacco companies target young people with their advertisements. In this tobacco lesson, 5th graders understand why tobacco companies target youth. Students define the word adbuster and create adbusters to...
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Toy Planet

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students design a toy store, supply it with merchandise (on paper) and create advertisements. They also manage the store's debits and credits by using a spreadsheet. They consider how to promote the sale of their merchandise.
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Marketing A New Product

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students design and draw a new product in a graphics program. Students research and create a report on how they plan to market their product. Students create a flyer, brochure or business card to be passed out at the New Product Fair.
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"The Father of Lavish Advertising": P.T. Barnum

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine the life and work of P.T. Barnum. They discover his advertising techniques and business practices. They examine his use of people with disabilities for amusement.
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Brain Drain

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this brain drain worksheet, students create a product name for a new product on the market, identify why the product is special and decide the target audience. Students then design a magazine, radio, or TV. advert for their product....
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Revolutionary Advertising?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore and examine the 40th anniversary of Ernesto Che Guevara's execution and his image as an international symbol of revolutionary values. They then interpret the iconic Che image from a variety of different points of view....
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Pros and Cons of Advertising

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders compare and contrast television commercials. They write paragraphs explaining how different company commercials for the same product can confuse consumers.
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Is TV Stronger Than Ever, or Becoming Obsolete?

For Students 7th - 12th
The New York Times offers of two articles and two summaries for learners to consider. They read each article and then post a blog response to each of the seven related questions. The topic of the articles asks the question; Is TV...
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MENSA Education & Research Foundation

Media Literacy

For Teachers 4th - 9th Standards
Young learners today are bombarded by media manipulation. Help them develop the skills they will need to become savvy 21st century media consumers with a unit on media literacy.
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Media Awareness: Helping a Product Cross the Finish Line

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students develop critical thinking skills to understand and create advertisements.  In this journalism lesson, students analyze the elements necessary for effective advertisements and work in cooperative groups to create and present...
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Critical Viewer Activity

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students practice media awareness. In this media awareness lesson, students analyze print and electronic media messages. Students discover how advertisers use re-imaging to manipulate photographs and discuss how they can become critical...
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Fish food Comercials

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders, working in pairs, create 30-second commercials for fish food products. They create slogans and incorporate props, music, costumes, or illustrations in their spots. The commercials are videotaped and parents are invited...
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Design Your Own Cereal Box

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students explore the ways in which media messages work and the ways in which consumers are targeted.
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Using Advertisements to "Read Between the Lines" Culturally

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners study and discuss various magazine advertisements, looking for target audience, attention-getting method, cultural differences, etc.
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Getting Under Your Skin

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students design advertisements that promote and explain the science of new transdermal drug therapies to the general public.
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I'll Take One!

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders collectively create a product, slogan, and advertisements for different types of media. They define different types of appeals such as bandwagon, emotional, glittering generalities, snob appeal, plain-folks appeal,...
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Consumerism Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore consumerism. In this economics lesson, students work with a partner to complete an Internet Research consumer scavenger hunt. Students discuss information collected and conflicting answers to various questions.
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Factual writing: leaflets

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students identify persuasive words in provided leaflets. In this factual writing lesson, students complete an online activity. A worksheet is provided for extra practice.
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What Is the Influence?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students investigate propaganda techniques. In this media awareness lesson plan, students watch instructor-selected commercial clips and use the provided propaganda handouts to identify the propaganda techniques used in each of them.
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Are We under the Influence? A First Look

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Learners explore propaganda techniques. In this media awareness lesson plan, students watch instructor-selected commercial clips and identify the propaganda techniques used in each of them using the provided propaganda handouts.
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Are We under the Influence? A Second Look

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Learners explore propaganda techniques. In this media awareness lesson, students watch instructor-selected commercial clips and identify the propaganda techniques used in each of them using the provided propaganda handouts.
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Practical Money Skills

Protecting Your Money

For Teachers 6th - 12th
How can you tell if a commercial or salesperson is being misleading? Encourage your learners to protect themselves and their money with a lesson about consumer rights. They review laws that keep consumers safe from faulty claims and...
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Build Your Dream Science Lab

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Would your ideal science lab be filled with bubbling beakers and zapping Tesla coils? Or would it contain state-of-the-art computer technology and data analysis? Dream big with an innovative lesson that connects math and language arts...
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Talk Back

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students study print and TV ads and search for examples in which advertising companies rely on negative stereotypes or misleading information to market their products.

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