You've Gotta Have a Gimmick - Lesson

Lesson Plan

Level: Grades 5 to 7

Author: MediaSmarts

Overview

To familiarize students with the marketing techniques used in television and magazine snack food ads.

Learning Outcomes

Students demonstrate:

• an awareness of the different techniques applied in selling snack foods
• a beginning awareness of the format and structure of advertisements
• an understanding of their own reactions, as consumers, to these ads

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