Lincoln Public Schools
Cereal Box Project
Challenge your class with this fun and engaging engineering design project. The goal, to create a brand new cereal complete with a list of ingredients, a name and logo, and a box to hold it in. Starting with a survey to determine the...
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Ad Hangover?
In this advertising and marketing worksheet, students read an article regarding alcohol marketing and then respond to 8 short answer questions.
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Turn off the TV: Vocabulary Skills
In this online interactive vocabulary skills worksheet, students answer 10 fill in the blank questions regarding television-related words. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Youth Exposure to Advertising and E-Cigarette Use
Vaping is increasingly popular with young people. Small wonder given the marketing strategies used by the companies that produce E-cigarettes and vaping flavors like menthol, chocolate, and candy. Check out an infographic that identifies...
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Got Character?
Students create an advertisement promoting good behavior. This character-development lesson plan from Boys Town High School involves students studying the history of the Got Milk?advertising campaign. After a discussion of marketing...
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Watching the Watchers
Students identify, explore, and analyze the effects of their daily exposure to advertising.
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Parenting in the Movies:Examining Responsibilities in Modern American Films
High schoolers use films to identify the characteristics of a good parent. In groups, they research the different types of parenting methods used during colonial times, the Civil War and the Civil Rights movement. As a class, they...
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The Elements of Satire and Propaganda
Movies, books, and advertisements can help students understand satire and propaganda.
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Ads Are Everywhere
In this advertisements worksheet, learners read a list of 25 specific forms of advertising. Students then answer 2 essay questions. This worksheet directs learners to read an article not provided here.
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Ethnic Stereotypes in the Media
Students examine the existence of stereotypes and how various forms of media help to reinforce them. Groups discuss common stereotypes on a list of popular television shows. Student groups design a storyboard for an autobiographical...
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Is Radio 1 British enough?
Students read the story Radio 1 defends not playing enough UK tunes. Students are then asked: What are the benefits of having a mix of musical cultures in a country?, Do countries lose a sense of identity when other cultures are added?...
Random House
Teacher's Guide: The Hobbit: The Enchanting Prelude to Lord of the Rings
The Odyssey, Star Wars, The Hunger Games. Odysseus, Luke Skywalker, Katniss Everdeen. Add The Hobbit and Bilbo Baggins to these lists, and you have a unit examining classic and contemporary myths, legends, and folktales with hero and...
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Eating Under the Rainbow
Pupils investigate the lure of snack-food advertisements to explain how snacks can fit into a healthy diet.
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1970's Quiz 2
In this 1970's worksheet, students complete a quiz about the history and important events that took place in the 1970's. Students complete 20 short answer questions.
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The Media is the Lesson
Learners work as a member of a creative team and develop a media campaign for a client.
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Halle Berry
In this famous person worksheet, students read a passage about Halle Berry and then complete a variety of in-class and homework activities to support comprehension, including partner interviews, spelling, cloze, synonym matches, and...
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ESL Holiday Lessons: Good Friday
In this language skills instructional activity, students read an article about Good Friday. Students respond to 6 matching questions, 29 fill in the blank questions, 30 multiple choice questions, 12 word scramble questions,...
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Noun and Pronoun Review
In this noun and pronoun learning exercise, students define related words, replace words with specific nouns, identify common and proper nouns, classify pronouns and fill in blanks to complete sentences.
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ESL-Simple Past and Progressive Review
In this ESL tense worksheet, students write the past tense of a set of present tense phrases, then do the same for a set of positive to negative phrases.
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WWW, Part 3: The Future
Students explore a variety of Internet sites provided to provide tools to speed up their net experiences. The lesson was originally written for librarians with little or no net experiences.
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The Day Before
Students explore the impact a major event has on people and on history as their team selects an event and publishes their own magazine to recreate the times in which such an event occurred.