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Propaganda Techniques

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students identify five propaganda techniques used in advertisements, then write their own ads using propaganda techniques that influence others to buy their products. They videotape their commercials, and write about recognizing propaganda.
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What Is the Influence?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students investigate propaganda techniques. In this media awareness lesson, 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 Second Look

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students 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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Fr ie n d s h ip, Self-esteem

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners brainstorm examples of activities that show friendship and illustrate them and explain below each picture what is happening. They hear a poem about friendship, watch a commercial about it, write a book about it and now they are...
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Are We under the Influence? A First Look

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students 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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Script Reading

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students investigate propaganda techniques. For this media awareness lesson, students watch drug commercial clips and identify the purpose of pacing in advertising. 
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Adbusting: A Media Literacy Unit

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the ethical issues regarding the role of advertising in our society. They watch a series of ads, analyze the messages of the commercials, and in small groups create a counter-ad.
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Celebrate the Arts

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore the responsibilities of people working in advertising. They create a campaign to support the arts including advertisements in several different media. Length of unit depends on number of projects completed.
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The Art of Subtle Persuasion

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students examine a scene from "Julius Caesar." After watching commercials and political ads on TV, students explore the intention of the commercial. They compare and contrast the forms of persuasion used. Students share their writings...
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University of Oklahoma

Barbie™: Blessing or Curse? - Style, Format, and Genre

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
New ReviewBarbie has been an iconic figure in the lives of girls since the 1950s, but her existence has been full of controversy. A lesson plan on style, format, and genre explores that controversy by looking at three texts with different...
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Media Smarts

Kellogg Special K Ads

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Foster class discussion about body image with the resources and questions provided here. Focus on Special K's "look good on your own terms" ad campaign. Learners start by reading about this campaign and analyze a series of print ads,...
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Minneapolis Public Schools

Cereal Box Book Project

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
If you need a new way to approach reading assignments in your class, use a creative cereal box project as a book report. With all necessary templates included for each side of the cereal box, the resource guides readers through the...
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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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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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Just Say It

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the initial Supreme Court decision to regulate commercial speech, and then analyze the legal precedents and principles underlying a recent case contesting this regulation.
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Whose Buffalo?

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders examine how the Plains Indians vied with white commercial buffalo hunters for the millions of Great Plains buffalo. They create an illustrated broadside supporting the interests of either the Indians or the commercial...
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T.V. Smarts

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students research visual messages by completing a media quiz. In this television programming lesson, students identify the many programs and commercials which use sexual imagery to sell their program or product. Students discuss methods...
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Education, Design & Empowerment: Part One

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers consider the connection between poverty and education. In this language arts and social studies lesson plan, students research primary and secondary sources in order to explore the relationship between education and...
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Sequencing in Reading

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore language arts by analyzing a children's story in class. In this story structure lesson, 3rd graders read the book The True Story of the Three Little Pigs and write a brief summary. Students identify the beginning,...
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TV Talks, We Listen?

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students recognize and analyze the link between advertisements and commercial programs as well as their influence on the audience. In this television and advertisement analysis lesson, students watch television to research the audience...
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Make a TV Commercial for "Brighty-Whitey" Toothpaste

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Learners develop the skill of creativity by creating their own brand of toothpaste. The class will present the different projects in front of the class in the form of a speech.
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Advertising Techniques And Target Audiences Used in Commercials

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explain the power of advertising by researching advertising techniques, target audiences and a variety of ads. They learn and identify what advertising techniques are used: Bandwagon, Propaganda, and Testimonial.
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WHAT'S ORGANIC?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners explore how certain foods come to be certified "organic." They write the words "organic" and "synthetic" and given the definitions of each. Students are given dictionaries. They are asked: "What is organic food?" Learners grow...
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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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