Activity
Scholastic

Identifying a Target Audience

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
How do advertisers try to speak to you? Learners review a variety of advertisements and identify how they attempt to reach a particular targeted audience, as well as consider what type of audiences they might belong to as young...
Organizer
Curated OER

Deconstructing an Advertisement

For Students 7th - 12th
Bring in a stack of magazines and distribute this advertisement analysis activity to your emerging analysts. As your class members ponder an ad, they answer a series of questions to help them perform a complete analysis. They consider...
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National Council for the Social Studies

Analyzing a Product or Political Advertisement

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
How do advertisements evoke specific thoughts and feelings? Class members find out through the exploration of the Internet, videos, television, magazines, radio, and posters. Learners investigate commercial advertisements, political...
Worksheet
Nemours KidsHealth

Eating Disorders: Healthy Advertising

For Students 6th - 8th
In this eating disorders activity, students use drawings or photos from magazines to create an ad for blue jeans. They use realistic body types and positive messages about body image and types. The activity includes two questions about...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Advertising Analysis

For Students 10th - 12th
In ten questions, this advertising analysis worksheet addresses audience, persuasive techniques like logos, pathos, and ethos, as well as the purpose of the commercial. This is useful as homework while watching television, and it applies...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Deconstructing an Advertisement

For Students 7th - 12th
Ethos, logos, and pathos. Class members use an inventory analysis to deconstruct the effects of an advertisement. They identify the target audience, the persuasive and color appeals used, as well as the diction, images, and tone.
Lesson Plan
Mikva Challenge

Deconstructing Campaign Messages and Perceptions

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Target audience, covert message, explicit and implicit appeals. As part of an investigation of rhetorical devices used in campaign ads, class members examine and deconstruct the appeals in logos from...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Portrayal of Women in Media

For Teachers 7th - 9th
This is an awesome exercise. Learners use this worksheet as they examine an advertisement from a past decade (you need to provide). They answer five questions that aid them in analyzing the ad and the portrayal of women from that time...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Advertising

For Teachers 8th - 9th
In this advertising worksheet, students answer few questions about the subject, target, persuasive techniques and their design and layout they will use for their advertisement. Students answer questions in short answer format.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

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....