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The Human Body

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders explore the basic body systems and design a commercial advertising one of them. They also create a body systems handbook.
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Through Our Eyes

For Teachers 10th
After reading Sandra Cisneros’ novel The House on Mango Street, class members design a canned food drive, create advertisements for the drive, and use digital cameras to document the entire process. In addition, pupils journal their...
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American Statistical Association

Chocolicious

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
To understand how biased data is misleading, learners analyze survey data and graphical representations. They use that information to design their own plans to collect information on consumer thoughts about Chocolicious cereal. 
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Conceptual Analysis in Economics

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Help develop assertive, critical-thinking skills that enhance growth and change while teaching economics. In groups, select a topic from a list and then discuss the pros and cons of each topic. Debate why advertising is necessary to our...
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The Rooms in a Home

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Enhance your foreign language students' skills to describe a house. After reading a description of rooms in a house in their target language, they work to answer corresponding questions correctly. Additionally, they view a PowerPoint...
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Beyond Benign

The Green Zine

For Teachers 6th - 8th
It's time for your class to advertise what they've learned! The culminating lesson in the 24-part series asks scholars to use their newfound chemistry knowledge to create advertisements. Their magazine advertisements describe the health...
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You Can't Sell This Thing

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students, in teams, design and create a logo/trademark, packaging box, and poster for advertising their new product/invention. They present their new product/invention, and information about the target audience, to the class.
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Brain Drain

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this brain drain worksheet, learners 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....
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Student Meets the Real World

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students interview a local business person in order to design an advertising or promotional for their business. They summarize the meeting and use the information to design two promotional items using available technology. They make a...
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The Persuasive Message

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders engage in a study of persuasive writing. They conduct research looking at a variety of media resources looking for persuasive techniques that are used like advertising. The language of the advertising is examined for how...
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Persuasive Writing

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders, in pairs, decide on a product they would like to advertise and design an advertising plan for said product. Using ClarisWorks, 7th graders create an advertisement using pictures, vote on their favorite and discuss what...
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Audience Influence

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students examine the media product and decide who the intended audience is. they invent a new audience profile and discuss ways the media image might be changed to suit this new audience. They may consider the language, images, sourcs or...
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Toy Planet

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students design a toy store, supply it with merchandise (on paper) and create advertisements. They also manage the store's debits and credits by using a spreadsheet. They consider how to promote the sale of their merchandise.
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Made for the Movies

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students create a movie flyer to advertise the novel that the class has just finished reading in small groups. They search the Internet, format their flyer, select a slogan for their film, write a brief plot summary, without giving away...
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Art-What's it good for?--Absolutely everything!

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students pay attention to details in houses in order to improve observation skills. The skills then are used to help create a three dimensional drawing of a house. Students also examine advertising methods.
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Preparing for Cake Sale

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Students complete a series of lessons and plan recipes to make. They gather the necessary ingredients. Students follow safe procedures for food and safety hygiene to bake a cake for a cake sale. Students create posters to advertise the...
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Promoting Yourself Through Advertising

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders design their own ads and complete a full-size comprehensive of the final ad which showed color and final layout of the printed piece.
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Marketing A New Product

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners design and draw a new product in a graphics program. Students research and create a report on how they plan to market their product. Learners create a flyer, brochure or business card to be passed out at the New Product Fair.
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Healthy Decision Making Towards Alcohol and Tobacco Use

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine and demonstrate refusal skills of smoking and drinking alcohol. They take a quiz, identify alternative activities to smoking and drinking, write a journal entry, and design an anti-smoking and anti-alcohol ad.
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Monkeying Around

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders study machines. They watch a video about and identify and chart machines they find at home and at school. They design and build simple and compound machines, create an advertisement for them and attempt to sell them at the...
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MENSA Education & Research Foundation

Media Literacy

For Teachers 4th - 9th Standards
Young learners today are bombarded by media manipulation. Help them develop the skills they will need to become savvy 21st century media consumers with a unit on media literacy.
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Packaging Tricks

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students become aware of the ways in which packaging is designed to attract kids. In a series of activites, students compare similar food products, assess nutritional value, and participate in field trip to see how packaging affects...
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Statistics with M&Ms

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders explore estimation, measurement, and probability. Students conduct surveys and create charts & graphs. They study the history of chocolate. Students design their own magazine advertisement or create a script for a...
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Magazine Mania

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders examine the components and structure of magazines. In groups they develop a magazine based on the novel of their choice. Comic strips and promotional advertisements about the novels are included in the magazine. Students...