Lesson 8: Teacher Edition
- 1. 88 TEACHER EDITION Connection to Taking People With You by David Novak Materials Page 1 © 2013 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Co., Inc. Time: 45 - 90 minutes Lesson Objectives ·· Chapter 11: Market the Change - Be a Bold Ad for Your Big Goal ·· Lesson eight: Student edition (one per student) ·· Extra paper for each team (optional) ·· Introduction video: http://lead2feed.com/lessons/lesson-8 ·· Be sure to visit USA TODAY’s e-Edition for articles that may be relevant to this lesson. Students will: ·· Explore USA TODAY to learn about effectively catching the attention of their target audience. ·· Create an ad as a team. ·· Launch and refine their ad. LESSON College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Reading 7. Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse formats and media, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words. College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Speaking and Listening 1. Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively. 5. Make strategic use of digital media and visual displays of data to express information and enhance understanding of presentations. Common Core State Standards: MARKET THE CHANGE
- 2. 88 TEACHER EDITION Page 2 © 2013 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Co., Inc. ACTIVITIES Activity One: 6.5 Seconds That Matter (15 minutes) ·· Direct students to sit in their teams. Invite one or more students to read the introduction and directions. ·· Instruct students to explore articles and ads in USA TODAY, taking note of those they find particularly effective. Direct students to share the most effective article or ad they find with their team. ·· If there is time, ask students to share their findings with the class. “Now that you have identified effective and engaging elements of an article as exemplified in USA TODAY, it is time to create an ad of your own to market your team’s project. With social media and the Internet, it is important to think broadly about what an ad is and how you can use your ad in as many places as possible to give you the best exposure possible.” Provide a few examples of ads and ask the class: • Which ad is your favorite? What makes the ad special, catchy and memorable? • Which ads have good hooks? What makes them good hooks? • Who is your target audience? To whom will you market your project? • Where would you place your ad to attract as many people as possible? • Are there any other communication techniques you can think to use to get your message across? TEACHER TRANSITION Activity Two: Create an Ad (20 - 30 minutes) ·· Invite one or more students to read the directions. ·· Instruct students to begin creating an ad as a team. ·· Ask students to focus on the message of their ad first, then decide the method(s) they will use to distribute their ad. ·· If there is time, invite one student from each team to share their ad with the class. Global example Our headline or hook is: Alleviate world hunger like it’s 2013...by playing an online game! Compete against other teams from our school and beyond! Our target audience is: High School Students The problem we are trying to solve is: Provide food to regions significantly impacted by food shortages. The solution we are proposing is (our project): Play the online game — Freerice — where every correct answer is worth 10 grains of rice. Work with the United Nations World Food Programme to give rice to those that need it most. We are asking people to (call to action): Play Freerice to help us raise one ton of rice. When: October 1st – October 31st Where: Freerice.com/OurSchool What: Set a personal goal to play 20 questions a day for the month of October and bring 10 friends with you! Purpose: This can be a flyer or the image and text can be used for a Facebook event invitation
- 3. 88 TEACHER EDITION Page 3 © 2013 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Co., Inc. ACTIVITIES This is what our ad might look like: Be part of a solution to alleviate hunger: The world’s greatest solvable problem. Solve world hunger like it’s 2013...by playing an online game! Compete against other teams from our school and beyond! Play Freerice to help us raise one ton of rice. IMAGE HERE When: October 1st – October 31st Where: FreeRice.com/OurSchool What: Set a personal goal to play 20 questions Local example Our headline or hook is: Jefferson High School’s Can Construction 2013 Is Here! Our target audience is: High School Classes The problem we are trying to solve is: There are not enough canned goods to sustain the local food pantry. The solution we are proposing is (our project): Gather canned goods and use those canned goods to create structures in the mall. Those structures will help get the word out about our food pantry. We are asking people to (call to action): Donate canned goods and/or compete in the contest. Purpose: This text can be used on the morning announcements, as a blog post or press release, or even as a public service announcement on the radio. We can then share these posts on Facebook and other social media sites This is what our ad might look like: Jefferson High School’s Can Construction 2013 Is Here! Teams from all over the city will compete to build the biggest, most creative Can Constructions they can, bringing awareness to the issue of hunger in our communities. When: October 1st - October 15th Where: Ms. Haver’s classroom What: Collect as many cans as possible to build the biggest can construction we can! More information: Facebook.com/JHScancollection After the competition, all food will be donated to the Second Harvest Food Pantry
- 4. 88 TEACHER EDITION Page 4 © 2013 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Co., Inc. ACTIVITIES The methods we will use to share our ad include: Global example ·· Facebook: Create a fan page to recruit students and give frequent updates (three times a day) on competition status. All team members will post status updates and our ad image to their personal pages. ·· Twitter: Create a Twitter account and link it to Facebook to bring about even greater awareness. ·· Flyers: Give flyers to teachers to post and announce the competition in their classrooms. ·· Local media: Contact local newspapers or TV channels to see if they can cover the story with the goal of recruiting other students to join, follow and participate in the Freerice challenge. Local example We will create social media pages to share our ad and message with our friends, family and community. We will give posters to local schools and encourage people to start their own team. Then, we will get local media outlets to cover the construction event. “Now that you have an ad and a method, you get to launch your ad to the world! Think back to what you learned about successful ads in activity one. Use as many outlets as possible to launch your ad to as many people in your target audience as you can. ” TEACHER TRANSITION Activity three: Launch your ad (10 - 45 minutes) Global example ·· Get schools to write about our project on their website. ·· E-mail our ad to teachers in the area. ·· Contact news outlets about our ad. Local example ·· Get more people to share our social media pages. ·· Have local celebrities share links to our ad. ·· Get feedback from people with advertising experience before launching our ad. EXTRA WORK TIME: The activities in this lesson may take your students more than 45 minutes to complete. If students wish to create a video ad and/or launch their ad on multiple channels (social media, video, radio, etc.), we recommend including extra class periods or group time for students to work on their ads. You may also wish to give students extra class periods at this stage of the program to work on launching their project or assign some of this lesson for homework. If students work on their ads outside of class, you may wish to complete activity three during a future class period. ·· Invite one or more students to read the directions. ·· Direct students to create a list of ways to reach their target audience more effectively. (NOTE: This activity can be completed on the page provided, on a separate sheet of paper, in a student’s journal or as part of a digital portfolio.) ·· If there is time, invite one student from each team to share their list with the class.