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Super Brand
Children can recognize popular brands from an early age, but these images symbolize much more than what they advertise. Take a journey through the design of a logo with a lesson that focuses on the history and ubiquity of the Super Bowl...
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...
Curated OER
Invest in What You Know
Students complete a series of tasks that help them learn about the stock market. In this stock market lesson, students identify companies they are familiar with and learn about stock symbols. Students study the makeup of mini-markets and...
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Remote Control
Students examine the business of sports. In this current events instructional activity, students discuss the sale of Manchester United to an American businessman. Students listen to a lecture about branding and marketing. Students may...
Curated OER
Cost Of Cool
Students explore how marketers use the idea of "cool" to sell clothing and accessories, and become aware of their own attitudes and perceptions about what is cool. They become aware of what motivates them to buy certain things
Curated OER
Breaking News English: Adidas Agrees to Buy Rival Reebok
In this ESL worksheet, students first read or listen to a text about the Adidas and Reebok companies. Students complete 8 pages of comprehension exercises. Included are vocabulary, questions, completing sentences, discussion, problem and...
Curated OER
New Toy Project
Students create a new toy for a toy company. They determine the demographics of the target market and explain their decision. Students use the six steps of new product development to develop a new toy for the selected target market.
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Data collection and analysis
In this probability and statistics worksheet, students determine when a survey or collected data could be biased. The one page worksheet contains a combination of three multiple choice and free response questions. Answers are included.