Advertising and Choices

🌍Mission Brief #47

Advertising is when companies tell us about 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

💱 This is happening in your local store every single day.

Advertising is when companies tell us about their products. They use fun pictures and stories to catch our attention. Advertisements help us learn about new toys, but we should think before buying.

Key Facts

Advertising tells us about products.

Companies use pictures and stories.

We should think before we buy.

Check Your Understanding

Question 1

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What do advertisements do?

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.

Find two products that look similar but cost very different. Why?

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For the dinner table

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

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