Advertising and Choices

🌍Mission Brief #17

Advertising helps businesses show their products.

🎯 Your mission

Trade-offs everywhere — find them.

⚡ The twist

Cheap for you usually means expensive for someone else.

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Mind = Blown

🤯 The first ATM was installed in 1967 — and used radioactive ink.

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Then & Now

💱 Every receipt you've ever seen has this idea inside it.

Advertising helps businesses show their products. Ads can be on TV, in magazines, or on the internet. They try to catch our attention. Good ads make us want to buy things. When we see a fun toy in an ad, we may ask for it. Ads help us make choices about what to buy.

Key Facts

Ads show us new products.

Good ads make us want to buy things.

Ads can be on TV or online.

Check Your Understanding

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What do advertisements help us see?

How sure are you going to be?😐 maybe

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Why this still matters

The next time you spend $1, ask: who else benefited besides you?

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Stretch Challenge

Try this in real life this week.

Track every dollar you spend or get this week. Then figure out the pattern.

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For the dinner table

“If you had $20 to start a business, what would you sell?”

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