Welcome to the Design An Ad Document Center
The information on this web page will assist you with lesson planning and participation for the Design An Ad student competition. Some of these documents are copyrighted materials. They may be downloaded and copied for use in your classroom. Please do not use these documents in a publication or on a web site without the written permission of the author(s).
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Design An Ad Rules and Timelines
- Timeline for the 2008 Design An Ad contest (<1 MB) Download
- Contest Rules for the 2008 Design An Ad contest (<1 MB) Download
Design An Ad Teaching Materials
- All About Advertising student supplement, grades 4-12 (1.6 MB) Download
- The News Ad Vantage teacher's guide, grades 4-12 (2.5 MB) Download
- Teacher Workshop Notes from the teacher workshop on January 15, 2008 (<1 MB) Download
Forms
- Student Entry Form One of these forms must be attached to every Design An Ad entry. (<1 MB) Download
Templates
The following templates have the various ad sizes already measured out. Students may use these templates as a guide when creating their ads, or they may create their ads on a plain white sheet of paper (being careful to follow the dimensions on the ad instruction form).- 3 3/4 inches wide x 5 inches tall also called 2 columns x 5 inches (<1 MB) Download
- 3 3/4 inches wide x 7 inches tall also called 2 columns x 7 inches (<1 MB) Download
- 5 11/16 inches wide x 7 inches tall also called 3 columns x 7 inches (<1 MB) Download
- 5 11/16 inches wide x 10 1/2 inches tall also called a quarter-page ad (<1 MB) Download
- 5 11/16 inches wide x 14 inches tall also called 3 columns x 14 inches.*
- 9 1/2 inches wide x 10 inches tall also called 5 columns x 10 inches.*
- 11 1/2 inches wide x 3 1/2 inches tall also called 6 columns x 3 1/2 inches.*