Today's Classroom Activities :

Advertising Trends

Advertising Trends
Math Get some old magazines from the library and have students make graphs depicting the amount of space devoted to advertisements. Then graph what kinds of products the ads are selling. Are the students being targeted? What percentage of the magazine is reading material that isn't an ad?

Advertising Talk
Reading Give your students catalogs and store flyers. Ask each child to select one item and list all the details they can learn about the item from the text and photo in the ad (size, color, cost, used for, etc.).

Read How To...Put Advertising to Work and teach your students how build comprehension skills and be consumer savvy about the advertisements they see every day.