This interactive site helps students notice the tricks that advertisers use to try and get them to buy their products.

A collection of the advertisements that were published in Harper's Weekly between 1857 and 1872.

This lesson will show the student the power of advertising to create demand for a product. After reviewing existing advertisements, the students will create their own campaign for a product. Following a presentation to the class as a...

Interactive lesson and activities for learning to look critically at the persuasive techniques of advertisements promoting political candidates and products.

Extensive collection of marketing terms and definitions. Includes industry, nonprofit, and professional organizations as well as technical terms for approach, design, layout, copy, production, & distribution.

In this website students can learn to create an international advertising agency. They will learn to write a brief, create a brand and position the product. They will also be introduced to the fundamentals of creative writing as well as...

A lesson plan through which students discover, examine, and discuss how alcohol is advertised in magazines. A simple lesson plan to put together, "Alcohol and Advertising," only requires magazines, art supplies (construction paper,...

Students show their creativity and think like engineers as they design products or services that can be used to improve environmental problems in the community. While being aware of the steps of the engineering design process, students...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is an activity examining pictures of 1950's life and culture. Students are to examine different advertisements of the 1950's, movie posters and pictures. Students will record observations...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Chock full of many interactive tools and strategies, this interdisciplinary language arts and health lesson is set up like a WebQuest. Students are led through the evaluation of techniques used by...

Advertisements, television, and magazines often boast beautiful individuals that make a particular product seem as attractive as the model. This trend has caused many individuals to question their body image and attempt to change it in...

A site with artists and links to the Pop Art movement of the 1950s and 60s. There are links to museums with great images.

Lesson plan investigation into types of salts used to season foods and in recipes asks young scholars to consider and whether advertisers' claims about their salt products are truthful.