Resources for Teachers - Marketing & Consumerism

Marketing to Teens: Talking Back - Lesson

This lesson helps teens become active consumers by encouraging them to 'talk back' to advertisers when they have concerns.

Image Gap - Lesson

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

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.

Kids, Alcohol and Advertising - Lesson 4: Interpreting Media Messages

In this lesson, students investigate the importance of branding and messaging, especially as they relate to parity products such as beer and alcohol.

The Pornography Debate: Controversy in Advertising - Lesson

To introduce the issue of pornography for classroom discussion. To help students understand the difficulty in determining the sometimes very fine lines between erotica, freedom of expression, and sexual exploitation and to familiarize them with guidelines for making these distinctions.