Media Literacy for Kids: Advertising, Brands and Self-Image

Media Literacy for Kids: Advertising, Brands and Self-Image

Media Literacy for Kids: Advertising, Brands and Self-Image

This six-week course examines how branding and marketing influence thoughts and choices. Students learn to identify branding methods, distinguish facts from opinions, analyze food and toy marketing to children, evaluate excessive media, and apply critical thinking by creating their own honest advertisement.

Media Literacy for Kids: Advertising, Brands and Self-Image

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Level
Beginner
Ages
8–10
Duration
55 min
Classes
1 / Week
Weeks
6

Class Experience

This six-week course examines how branding and marketing influence thoughts and choices. Students learn to identify branding methods, distinguish facts from opinions, analyze food and toy marketing to children, evaluate excessive media, and apply critical thinking by creating their own honest advertisement.

Learning Outcomes

  • Identify branding methods and common marketing techniques

  • Differentiate facts and opinions in media messages

  • Analyze how media and advertising affect self-image

  • Explain strategies used to target children with products

  • Create an advertisement applying course concepts

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Meet your Instructor

Joined August, 2026

4.7

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An experienced community health educator with more than a decade of work helping families recognize the influence of propaganda and advertising, this educator focuses on building media literacy skills for children. Lessons use age-appropriate examples to explore how brands shape…

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