??? So many good ideas here. Last year, I went back to an old lesson the kids love. In order to cover propaganda techniques, research, and media, I created the "Cookie Selling Lesson". Students study propaganda techniques in print advertising, TV, and radio. They then create a cookie and name it based upon market research of their class. They create a print ad, a radio ad, and a TV ad for it. They present these to the class, and (here's the part the kids love) they sell it. The kids actually make the cookies. Each student gets 5 "Haskell" dollars to spend. Each cookie costs a dollar. The other students select the cookie by the ads. The cookies themselves are hidden away in containers. Once purchased, they receive and can eat the cookie. Each student keeps tack of how many they have sold and each student fills out a survey slip about whether they would be a repeat buyer or not. It took the last three weeks of school, and everyone loved it. Linda in ME
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