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Curated OER

Hoops! There It Is!

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders view and discuss the use of voice in writing through the in-your-face, aggressive, powerful messages of the Nike advertisements and the book Hoops as examples of the intensity words can have and how voice is expressed. A...
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Curated OER

See How They Run

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze non-print campaign advertisements for factual and persuasive information. They choose the advertisement they think is the most persuasive and identify the reasons why it is the most persuasive.
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Curated OER

Thinking About Shopping and Spending

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars list and discuss recent commercials they have viewed. They identify advantages and disadvantages of the advertised items, and write about the effects of advertising, planned spending and spontaneous spending.
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Curated OER

Better to Tell the Truth

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders distinguish between emotional and logical arguments in advertising. They, in groups, find ads in newspapers and magazines illustrating the various types of emotional and logical arguments in advertising discussed on day one.
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Curated OER

The Junk Mail Explosion

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students read direct mail advertising critically, identify persuasion techniques, employ intellectual defenses against persuasive techniques and neatly organize junk mail by persuasive technique.
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Curated OER

Market Research

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Young scholars examine the difference between primary and secondary market research, and the limitations of market research in developing marketing strategies. They list specific examples of products and services linked to television...
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Curated OER

Diabetes

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students identify community cultural practices that enrich or challenge health behaviors. Students evaluate television commercials for their effects on health and initiate a survey of cultural and media influences that might affect health.
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Curated OER

Is the Price Right?

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students explore the techniques used by advertisers to sell goods, increase their awareness of consumer habits, differentiate between information and selling, and become aware of what motivates them to buy products.
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Curated OER

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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Curated OER

Running a School Bakery

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students explore marketing concepts while producing food items to sell.
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Curated OER

An Ad for an Element

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students prepare an ad for an element, including properties and uses, in an attention getting format such as that used in the advertising business.
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Curated OER

Advertise With Geography...it's Free And It's Easy!!

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners establish awareness of how landforms/landmarks produce a visual image of a region and demonstrate how advertisers use the "positive geographical image" to sell their product by creating their own advertisements.
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Curated OER

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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Curated OER

Fritsch - Student-Led Lesson: Vacation Commercials (I-TESL-J)The Internet TESL Journal

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research, plan and present a commercial for a vacation spot of their choice.
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Curated OER

Ad Attack!

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Students analyze the hidden messages of advertisements targeted to their age group.
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Teachers.net

Smoking and the Advertising Industry (Middle, other) SMOK_AD.DOC

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers study advertising techniques and the effects of smoking on health.
Website
PBS

Pbs: American Experience: George Eastman: The Wizard of Photography

For Students 9th - 10th
American Experience offers a comprehensive look at George Eastman and his development of photography. Included are a timeline, biographies of important people in Eastman's personal and professional life, discussions in the history of...
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PBS

Pbs: The :30 Second Candidate

For Students 9th - 10th
Great PBS site for the Democracy Project. This site is all about televisions role in political advertising. There is a timeline, step-by-step process of commercials, and a look at tricks of the trade.
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Other

Massurrealism Gallery

For Students 9th - 10th
An interesting gallery and description of Massurrealism and artwork that is part of the movement.
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Other

Amos Web: A Pedestrian's Guide to the Economy

For Students 9th - 10th
Exploring the economy can be a fun adventure with the Pedestrian's Guide to the Economy. Use this site to find your answers to economic topics in a user-friendly format with comic strip guides.
Primary
Harp Week

Harp Week: 19th Century Advertising

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of the advertisements that were published in Harper's Weekly between 1857 and 1872.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Rhetorical Landscape: Commercials and Advertisements

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on commercials and advertisements including demographics, targeted audiences, and the three audience appeals: ethos pathos, and logos. It provides links to an analyzing ads assignment with rubric, a demographics...
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Other

Annenberg Classroom: Flack check.org

For Students 9th - 10th
FlackCheck.org is the political literacy companion site to the award-winning FactCheck.org. We provide resources to help students recognize flaws in arguments in general and political ads in particular. Explore politics, science and health.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Green Marketing

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students learn basic marketing concepts and use professional marketing techniques to compose an advertisement for a hybrid vehicle. In the process, they learn the principles of comparative analysis.