Eight various activities have your learners looking at hype in the media. Advertisements for films, politics, music, and philanthropy all contribute to emotional appeals and marketing strategies trying to convince consumers to...

Imagine these flavors: chocolate, candy, menthol. What age group do you imagine is the target audience of an advertising campaign that features a product with these flavors? Find out the facts about vaping with a resource that provides...

Add to children's enjoyment of the award-winning novel Maniac Magee with this fun collection of resources. From sequence of events and fact or fiction worksheets, to writing newspaper articles and creating advertisements based...

Young mathematicians use their geometry skills to save the Land of Venn in an engaging math game. A fun way to reinforce children's understanding of basic geometric figures and shapes.

Students reflect on their strengths, to foster postive self-awareness and self-esteem. They discuss what the purpose of an adertisement is. What can an ad communicate? Students create an ad of themselves that reflects their own...

Students study how a type of product is advertised. In this product advertisement instructional activity, students research a specific product and its advertisement. Students create a market research survey based on their peers...

Students investigate a chosen product. They use television, radio, print, and internet sources to investigate how the product is advertised. Students create a market research survey to determine which brand is preferred by their peers...

Students visit websites to locate movies that are playing in Germany. They complete a worksheet, locate information about a particular movie in Germany, and create an ad in German for a movie.

Students discuss how writers use various techniques to persuade an audience and examine examples used in the media. They interpret their thoughts and feelings about pictures, symbols and slogans and create an advertisement using the...

Students design a shopping bag that will allow the consumer to immediately identify the store and understand the product that is being sold. They create an advertisement for a new shopping bag. Students choose their type of business to...

Students explore the hidden messages in advertisements. In this business lesson, students discuss the role that advertisements play in our lives. Students locate advertisements that use various advertising techniques. Students create an...

Students examine persuasive techniques used to sell products, and create and write an advertisement for peanut butter.

Explore concepts of audience, purpose and symbols in this lesson from Media Smarts that asks students to consider all the functions of music. Through a series of discussions and activities, your class will brainstorm possible functions...

Seventh graders explore the various elements found in the advertisement of a dramatic experience. Playbills are created that reflect the plot without revealing the climax of the play. Costumes, set construction, and character description...

Introduce the background of design and designers and their role in communicating their thoughts to others. In groups, you can assign participation in a writing cluster on various designers and write paragraphs to submit to magazines. To...

Here's a new twist in the egg drop competition. Using only six inches of tape, four straws, and 2 pieces of newspaper, teams build a structure that keeps an egg from breaking when dropped. What's different about this project is that the...

Learners create and publish a newspaper that reflects and explains pioneer and medieval societies. They become newspaper writers for a specific time period. They adopt a holistic approach to exploring community life in medieval and...

In Guatemala, around AD 600-900, a vase was created. This vase is the inspiration for a lesson plan that incorporates expressive language skills, writing skills, and social studies. Children analyze the images on the vase and then choose...

Students consider the power of advertisements. In this consumerism lesson, students dicuss advertising techniques, advertising regulations, and analyze advertisements. Students also complete and evaluate and ad count actvitiy.

Students read "Tuck Everlasting" by Natalie Babbitt. They create an advertisement for the spring water described in the story.

Young scholars consider qualities and United States president should have. In this government lesson, students research the responsibilities of the president and use that information to create an advertisement that describes the job and...

Students explore the websites for museums in either Paris or Madrid. They complete a website worksheet, answer questions about each museum, and create an ad for one of the museums.

Learners recognize the intended audience for a certain advertisement They recognize advertising techniques aimed at the intended audience and create their own advertisements about the truth of cigarette smoking. Students begin to see...

Fifth graders investigate the basic persuasive techniques employed in advertising. They identify three examples of propaganda/persuasive techniques, complete an observation chart, take an advertising quiz, complete a spreadsheet that...