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Curated OER

Casting Coins

For Teachers 5th - 8th
This wonderful art instructional activity invites students to design and “mint” coins bearing their own symbols. A simple carving andcasting process using Blick Wonder-Cut®linoleum and modeling clay is described in the plan. Coins can be...
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Curated OER

Yellow Pages Ad-dition

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students determine the revenue generated by sample pages from the Yellow Pages. They discuss the value of advertising a business in this venue. They use the local telephone directory and some fictitious ad rates to lead their inquiry.
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Curated OER

You've Gotta Have a Gimmick!: A Lesson in Junk Food Advertising

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Learners examine marketing techniques used in television and magazine snack food ads. They analyze and discuss Internet kids clubs, complete various handouts that examine ads for food, and create a commercial for a food product.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Ad Hangover?

For Students 7th - 12th
In this advertising and marketing worksheet, students read an article regarding alcohol marketing and then respond to 8 short answer questions.
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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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Federal Trade Commission

Ad Awareness

For Teachers 5th - 6th Standards
Movie theaters, shopping malls, television, the Internet ... no matter where people go, they are inundated with advertisements. Scholars discuss the topic of ad awareness using the first of four Admongo lessons about advertising. Pupils...
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Visa

The Influence of Advertising

For Teachers 7th - 10th Standards
Pupils become informed consumers and citizens with this lesson plan on the influence of advertising, identifying basic advertising techniques and discriminating between fact and claim in modern advertisements and commercials.
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Curated OER

Magazine Dollars and Sense

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students analyze magazine advertisements that appeal to them. They explore how tobacco companies continue to target teens in magazine advertisements. They explore how advertisers select magazine ad space.
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Curated OER

"Let's Make Some Money"

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students complete a project about economics, supply, and advertising. In this advertising lesson plan, students discuss how money is made, entrepreneurs, and advertising. They make their own business with toys to sell to Kindergartners.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Coins to Bills!

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students practice using money at a grocery store. For this money lesson, students get familiar with grocery store ads and work in pairs to use these ads to select food items to purchase using money manipulatives. Students practice being...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

The Influence of Advertising

For Students 7th - 9th
In this influence of advertising instructional activity, students collect and analyze different forms of advertising.  Students discuss misleading ads and prepare a commercial for a product.
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Curated OER

Ad Awareness

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students review advertisements. In this advertising lesson, students define advertising and determine the main reason ads are created. Students define what it means to be a consumer and advertiser. Students are divided into groups and...
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Curated OER

Ads R Us: Understanding Target Marketing

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students build awareness of the way in which advertisers shape ads for specific audiences. They analyze the target audience intended for an advertisement and create their own targeted ads to demonstrate their understanding. They discuss...
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Curated OER

Advertising Media: Youth Drinking and Smoking

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Scholars examine the effect of media and advertising on youth drinking and smoking. They determine what advertising means, how much money is spent on it, and how different age groups are targeted. They watch a movie and examine pictures...
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Curated OER

All Those Advertising Dollars!

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students calculate percent increases (or percent decreases) for the top 25 companies in terms of advertising dollars spent during a year.
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Curated OER

Reading and Vocabulary - Sale Ads

For Teachers Higher Ed
Intermediate ESL students practice reading sale ads. They will look through a sales catalog or newspaper and highlight words they don't know, work together to determine the definitions, then decide how much they save in given situations.
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DK Publishing

Real-Life Problems: Miles, Pounds, and More

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Give young arithmeticians an applicable way to use their addition and subtraction skills with these five word problems. Each one presents a scenario requiring they add or subtract numbers with units (money, distance, weight,...
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Curated OER

Marketing to Teens: Introduction

For Teachers 7th - 12th
An introductory lesson shows learners how pervasive and influential advertising is in our culture; particularly, how teenagers are actively targeted by advertisers. As teenagers, your students already have all the information they need...
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Curated OER

Unit 7: Family Celebrations - Day Three: Describing Pets

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
English language learners examine advertisements for pets and pet shelters. Students read advertisements about pets who are living in shelters. They answer comprehension questions based on the reading before writing an original...
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Curated OER

Dollars and Sense

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders read "Starting a Business" and answer the question: "How could you design an ad to let the community know about the business described in the story?" Then, they illustrate a written ad that could be posted in the...
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Curated OER

School Fair Cakewalk

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Learners identify and research various suitable school carnival activities. Then they work together to plan, design, and run all aspects of a school carnival. Students also add up their costs for the event and the amount of money it...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Advertisement storyboard

For Students 4th
In this advertisement worksheet, 4th graders fill in a cloze passage of advertisements with 17 correct words. They answer 9 questions after looking at an advertisement storyboard. 
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Cartoons for the Classroom: Attacking All Those Attack Ads

For Students 8th - 12th
For this symbolism worksheet, students analyze political cartoons about political campaign attack ads. Students then respond to 5 short answer questions.
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iCivics

Campaign Cash: Money Talks!

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Money talks! And it can reveal a lot about political candidates. An 11-slide presentation examines how candidates raise and spend money on an election. The slides, using data from the 2016 Presidential election, reveal how much it costs...