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Nutrition and the Media: Cereal Box Consumerism Lesson PlanNutrition and the Media: Cereal Box Consumerism Lesson Plan
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Nutrition and the Media: Cereal Box Consumerism

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How many treats do you buy each week? Learners investigate diets and how the media tricks consumers into purchasing unhealthy snacks. They will investigate the designs and logos affiliated with cereal boxes and identify specific phrases that help sell products. Then they create their own cereal box design using an Internet program.

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Media Literacy, asking questions, answering questions, cereal, marketing

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cereal, marketing, media, unhealthy snacks, ask and answer questions, connect ideas, Discussion, Informational Text, rl.2.3, ri.2.1, sl.4.1, english language arts
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2nd - 5th
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English Language Arts
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2 hrs
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