Resources for Teachers - Marketing & Consumerism

Image Gap - Lesson

This lesson helps students understand how self-image can influence lifestyle choices.

Buy Nothing Day

In this lesson Buy Nothing Day is used as a jumping-off point to look at the role of consumerism in our lives and culture.

Favourite Sports and Athletes: Introduction to Sports Media - Lesson

This lesson develops a beginning awareness by students of how they feel towards, and respond to, different sports, and how the media represents athletics.

Co-Co's AdverSmarts

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.

Advertising and Male Violence

To make students aware of the ways in which male violence is used and promoted in advertising.