Online Marketing to Kids: Strategies and Techniques - Lesson

Lesson Plan

Level: Grades 6 to 9

Overview

This lesson introduces students to the online marketing techniques used by marketers to target children on the Internet. It begins with a guided discussion about the similarities and differences between traditional marketing methods and online advertising and why the Internet is such a desirable medium for advertisers to reach young people. Student activities include a survey of the marketing techniques used on several commercial websites for children; the creation of a commercial Web site for kids that incorporates common marketing strategies; and an analysis of case studies about online marketing to young people.

Learning Outcomes

Students demonstrate:

• an awareness of the format and structure of online advertisements.
• an awareness of the differences between television advertising and Internet marketing.
• an understanding of their own reactions, as consumers, to these ads.

This lesson and all associated documents (handouts, overheads, backgrounders) are available in an easy-print, pdf kit version.

Lesson Kit:

Lesson_Online_Marketing_Kids_Strategies_Techniques.pdf