Advertising and the Media

How do you succeed in a media-filled world?

Do you know how media is created?

Can you analyze the messages that inform, entertain, and sell to us everyday?
Can you create your own media messages?

Weblinks below lead to teaching resources to support these concepts and more.

Links:

What's real and what's reel

Asking critical questions about the media

Activities and ideas for integrating media literacy into all parts of the curriculum

The Persuaders - Frontline episode about advertising and marketing - teacher background

Inquiry Unit: "Is television making Aussie kids fat?' And "Energy drinks may make you feel more alive now but how will they make you feel later?'

Advertising webquest - some links are dead but provides a good model for your own webquest with local links.

Be a Critical Consumer - lesson plans and worksheets

Archive of old advertisements

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