Advertising and Propaganda

Eating with your Eyes-- Media Awareness
Are your students influenced by taste or by advertising? In this lesson, they get to test their own taste buds and the power of branding on their brains. See if they choose something because of its name or because of its taste with a Mystery Brand Taste Test that will keep them talking for days. As a picture-perfect hamburger flashes across a television screen, mouths water at the sight of the three-inch high handful. Has your hamburger ever actually looked like that? Just who are the miracle workers behind those amazing food advertisements? Students learn some tricks of the advertising trade before getting to make their own "faux-burgers" they'll actually want to eat and other fun advertising activities.