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Lesson Plan

What influences our spending?

In this lesson, students will analyze factors that influence their product choices. Students are encouraged to discern messages used in various media texts by marketers to grab their attention.

  • Grade Level: 6
  • Course(s)/Subject(s):

    Language, grades 1–8 (2006)
    Mathematics, grades 1–8 (2005)

Lesson Plan

Supermarket sweep

Students will participate in a comparison shopping exercise by researching the price of various food items using an Internet grocery store website and/or store flyers.

  • Grade Level: 7
  • Course(s)/Subject(s):

    Mathematics, grades 1–8 (2005)
    Health and Physical Education (2010)

Lesson Plan

Advertising: behind the image

Students analyze popular advertisements in order to see how the different forms of marketing can shape individual needs, wants, and purchasing decisions.

  • Grade Level: 7
  • Course(s)/Subject(s):

    Language, grades 1-8 (2006)

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