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This interactive unit is designed to help kids between the ages of 5 and 8 recognize the marketing techniques used on commercial websites that target children.
The newspaper offers a fun and useful tool to learn about the workings of print media. In this lesson, students learn basic information about newspaper journalism through guided class discussion and group and individual activities.
In this lesson, students decode and explain the relevance of editorial cartoons. The class begins with a teacher-led deconstruction of a political cartoon, after which students decode editorial cartoons that they have selected.
This lesson introduces students to some of the myth-building techniques of television, by comparing real world (s)heroes with TV world (s)heroes and by looking at stereotypes in the world of TV (s)heroes.
This lesson introduces students to the ways in which advertising can affect their food choices.
In this lesson, students learn how to create their own youth consumer magazine or Internet site.
We want to encourage kids to form opinions about what they watch - to react to what they see on the screen. In this lesson, children begin to think about basic concepts - such as how audiences interpret meaning, and the constructed world of television and film.
This lesson introduces students to advertising in newspapers.
This lesson is one of a five-part unit that provides teachers with ideas for teaching TV in the elementary classroom.
This lesson is one of a five-part unit that provides teachers with ideas for teaching TV in the elementary classroom.