3: Inquiry

This lesson requires an inquiry strategy. Students learn internet marketing and advertising techniques after listening to a guest speaker who is an expert in the field. The students will use the scientific method to discover the best ways to direct traffic and sponsors to their blogs.



Name: Elizabeth Navarro, Educator                                     Grade: 10

LESSON #3                              GARDNER                               BLOOM
                                               
                                                ___Visual                                  ___Knowledge
                                                ___Kinesthetic                           ___Comprehension
                                                ___Verbal                                 ___Application
                                                _x_Logical                                _x_Analysis
                                                ___Rhythmic                             ___Synthesis
                                                ___Interpersonal                        ___Evaluation
                                                ___Intrapersonal
                                                ___Naturalist    
STRATEGY: Inquiry


SUBJECT AREA: Business, Advertising, Marketing, Media

TEACHER PERFORMANCE EXPECTATION ADDRESSED: TPE 6C- Developmentally Appropriate Practices in Grades 9-12
Students use advanced thinking and problem solving skills to discover effective marketing techniques. Students make connections to life beyond high school by hearing a professional speak about his job and will explore marketing and advertising careers through completing the “Followers” activity.

STATE CONTENT STANDARD (Know):
California Career Technical Education: Arts, Media, and Entertainment Industry Sector
Problem Solving
5.1: Apply appropriate problem-solving strategies and critical thinking skills to work-related issues and tasks (49).

California Career Technical Education: Marketing, Sales, and Service Industry Sector
Technical Knowledge and Skills
10.4: Know how promotion concepts and strategies, including advertising, sales, promotion, public relations, and personal selling are used to communicate information about products, services, images, and ideas to achieve a desired outcome (313).

PERSONNEL: Advertising Professional (Media buyer or seller). Jack Vincent (former boss at Bon Appetit magazine, now a print and online seller for Fortune and CNNmoney.com) will tell the class about his job. He’ll discuss how he sells media and advertising, how a magazine or website’s value is measured (based on readers, page views, unique visits, etc…) and the concept of added value. 

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS (Technology):
  • Learning Center: Media Kit examples from magazines, newspapers, and websites.
  • Students need access to computer/internet at home.
  • Computer (internet access) and projector. www.busybeelauren.blogspot.com
  • Post-It Notes

LESSON LENGTH: 60 minutes
PREPARATION:
  • Contact Jack Vincent. Coordinate visit.
  • Write numbers on board. Put the Post-Its on desks (motivation.)
  • Busy Bee Lauren Blog ready to go on projector.

MANAGEMENT STANDARDS:
  • Practice active listening for guest. (Includes posture, participation, eye contact, and note taking.)

ANTICIPATORY SET:
Behavioral Objective (Do): Students will document their progress as they market to blog followers.

            Transfer (Learning theory/citations):
“It is ironic that the school…is notable for a lack of teaching, whereas all societies, including the most primitive, succeed in teaching the vast majority of their young members all those basic cognitive, social, and attitudinal structures that constitute cultural socialization. This teaching occurs largely without formalization, and largely without awareness.”
Tharp, Ronald G. and Gallimore, Ronald. Rousing minds to life. Cambridge University Press.

Motivation (Teacher Created): Teacher writes on board: “800 million, 300 million, 200 million.” (These numbers represent Facebook users, hits on Youtube for “Charlie bit my finger,” and twitter users.) Under the numbers, write, “Use your Post-It to guess what these numbers represent, and stick it on the board when you are finished.”

METHODOLOGY (Teaching):
  • Students enter, see board, make predictions about what numbers represent.
  • Before revealing what they represent, teacher reads some of the predictions aloud.
  • Reveal what the numbers mean.
  • Introduce guest.
  • Jack talks for 20 minutes. 10 minutes left for questions.
  • Ask questions students miss (What makes a website valuable to an advertiser? How are websites, magazines, newspapers, and TV funded?)
  • Jack finishes. Teacher walks students through steps of scientific method (see Guided Practice). Explain hypotheses will be different ways to receive traffic, followers, page views, and sponsors on blogs.
  • Tell students that whoever can generate the most page views/followers/sponsors on blog by the end of week (Friday) will win a year-long magazine subscription of their choice. (No inappropriate magazines, of course.)
  • Questions: “What makes a website valuable to advertisers?” “How can I drive traffic to my website?” “What makes people want to visit a website?” “What will make a person want to come back to a website over and over again?” “What makes a person want to click away from a website?” “How can I check the traffic on my website?”

MODEL (Demo):
  • Jack shows of media kits and explains the basic terms.
  • Review vocabulary. (Uniques, page views, followers, monetize, CPM, demographics.)
  • Jack reminds students of target audience and demographics. Explains its importance to advertisers, and connects to their personal blogs.
  • Write five steps of scientific method on board. Students take notes.
  • Give examples of hypotheses to collect followers. Ex: “Linking to my blog on Facebook and Twitter will help me receive followers” OR “Putting up flyers around the school will help me get followers” or “Writing about our school sports will help me get followers.” “Blogging every day will help me get followers.”
  • Show examples of blogs with sponsors. Show their rates. (Busy Bee Lauren).

GUIDED PRACTICE (Checking for understanding - group) LEARNING TASKS (Activities):
The scientific method. (Write on board and model to class). Students will be expected to record and write up the following throughout the week.

WRITE UP:

Question: How can I generate more traffic on my blog?
Hypothesis: (Student will create. Teacher will model examples.)
Data collection: As students attempt to advertise and reach followers, they will journal their findings and success rates here. What works best? What did not work?
Statistics:
How many followers did I begin the week with?
How many page views did I begin the week with?
How many comments did I begin the week with?
How many sponsors did I begin the week with?

How many followers did I end the week with?
How many page views did I end the week with?
How many comments did I end the week with?
How many sponsors did I end the week with?
Conclusion: Include whether or not the hypothesis(ses) was correct. Did your numbers go up, down, or remain stagnant? What did you learn about advertising and marketing from this experience?

INDEPENDENT PRACTICE (Monitor/adjust – individual) PRODUCTIVE MODALITIES:
Out of class, students attempt to drive traffic to their blogs. They are each responsible for their own blogs’ statistics. Use  the “stats” tool to measure progress and record their data using scientific method. Hand in a typed write up following scientific method template. Most followers on Friday receives magazine subscription.

CLOSURE: Explain assignment and competition. Warn that blogs cannot contain inappropriate content or negative messages about students in the school. Encourage use of different hypotheses if they notice one method is not working.

DIFFERENTIATED LEARNING ACTIVITIES (Learning centers, manipulatives, special needs, etc):
            Gate: Driven by competitive aspect of assignment. 
Challenged: Encouraged to observe what methods other students are using that are working. Hypotheses will be modeled to give them ideas.
Handicapped (Wheel Chair): Given his own copy of media kit and handouts from learning center so that he has easier access to them.
SDAIE Techniques:
    • All students participate
    • Adequate wait time for questions

ASSESSMENT (Objective verb): Document      RUBRIC (What does it measure?): Students’ ability to document their progress.
Informal: Guest speaker participation, scientific method walk-through, Blogger statistics
Formal: RUBRIC FOR “FOLLOWERS WRITE UP”
            1 point = Question
            1 point = Hypothesis
            1 point = Data collection record
            8 points = Statistics
            3 points = Conclusion
           
            14 points = Total

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