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Pitcher Perfect

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students consider how advertising messages are constructed and relayed. They invent fast-food businesses and create presentation posters outlining the first commercials to promote their new brands.
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Visual Composition

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students study how elements of visual composition and group storyboards for a one-minute videotaped commercial.
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Advertise a State Vacation

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students create a brochure advertising a state for vacation. In this internet research lesson, students do research on a state and create a brochure with the information. Students write a commercial and videotape them.  
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Art and Technology - Design - Alexander Calder

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students gain an awareness for the work of Alexander Calder, study a variety of utilitarian objects and discuss their purposes, and create graphic of a utilitarian piece using computer graphic software.
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Storyboarding

For Teachers 4th - 11th
Students master storyboarding by making a storyboard for a commercial that has already been made. They create a video from storyboard examples and finish with their own video from their storyboard creation.
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I Want To Be an Entrepreneur

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students define the word entrepreneur as they create a business. In this economics lesson, students understand the elements of creating a successful business and record them. Students create a commercial for their businesses.
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Holy Mole

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore the Mexican sauce Mole and the culture of Mexico.  In this Mexican culture lesson plan, 3rd graders find Mexico on the map and access prior knowledge about the country.  Students discuss Mexican foods.  Students...
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Quilting

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students use a monochromatic palate, select shades and tints for a selected hue, or select complimentary or analogous colors for a quilt design. They design quilt squares using basic geometric shapes, repetition, balance, and proportion.
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Paris Street; Rainy Day by Gustave Caillebotte

For Teachers 7th
Discuss the balance, color, emotion, and context of the painting Paris Street; Rainy Day by Caillebotte. After a deep discussion, let creativity run free in your class as learners create a dimensional piece that reflects a life change...
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Marketing to Teens: Marketing Tactics

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Enlighten young consumers to advertising techniques aimed specifically at their generation. Have learners answer questions about how advertisements are geared for a younger audience, then have them practice selling to other teenagers....
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Looks Good Enough to Eat

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students examine food photography and the different techniques used by food stylists to make foods look appealing in advertisements. After learning some of the tricks of the trade, students plan and shoot their own food advertisements.
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May The Best Character Win

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine the financial committment to running a campaign. They discuss the difference between electroal and popular votes. They realize how involved a political campaign is!
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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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Advertising Project

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students use word processing software to create slogans for products. They write their own jingles and create their own packaging for products they design. Then they write and act out their own television commercials for their products.
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Advertising

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
Students complete a product analysis as a study of advertising. In this advertising lesson, students discuss advertising by putting up 10 product logos with the name of the products taken out. Students see how many products they can...
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Power, Persuasion & Propaganda: Exploring Multiple Motives

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students recognize different motives even in non-commercial media. They analyze the role of media in a democratic society and wrestle with ethical issues concerning media and the public good. They create a media message with one or more...
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Can You Sell Your Cereal?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students evaluate television commercials about cereal and create their own cereal product. They watch cereal television commericals and evaluate cereal boxes to compare their features. As a class they create a T-chart to identify words...
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Jingles Sell

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the different persuasive techniques used in commercial and print advertisements. Students then analyze a variety of print ads and discuss the effects of a country's political, economic, and social climates on its...
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The Influence of Advertising

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students analyze advertisements and develop guidelines for viewing advertising. In this advertising lesson, students discuss print ads, TV commercials, and other examples of ads. Students survey their friends or relatives about their...
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Ready, Set, Action

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Learners identify propaganda techniques used in commercials created by their classmates. In this active listening lesson, students use the provided scoring guide to evaluate commercials that their classmates made that feature propaganda...
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What is Poetry and Where Can You Find It?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine different types of poetry in music, commercials and printed works. They identify themes of philanthropy in poetry as well. They finally share their findings with the class.
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Best Practices of Technology Integration

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students study how a type of product is advertised. In this product advertisement lesson, students research a specific product and its advertisement. Students create a market research survey based on their peers preferences. Students...
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Creating the Goods

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students market goods or services to one another. For this media awareness lesson, students use propaganda techniques to create commercials for goods or services of their choice.
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What is Popular? Self Portraits in the Style of Roy Lichtenstein

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students examine and discuss art by Roy Lichtenstein and the Pop art movement. They discuss the phenomenon of popularity, list what is popular today, and create a piece of art using professional looking graphic design style.

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