Turn your class into advertising detectives. Take a claim made in a commercial or advertisement and investigate it for truthfulness. For inspiration check out the examples below by the gang on the CBC consumer smarts show Street Cents.

• To have it delivered, it costs $15.00. If we pick it up, it costs $9.00. Free pizza delivery? Do the math. 
• President's Choice Ancient Grains cereal tries to exploit your concerns about the environment...but are these ancient grains really in danger of extinction? 
• You've all the seen the ads....but is Tim Horton's coffee changed every twenty minutes? 
• In the ads, they're "tall and big and just perfect. But when you get them they dried up,squished and gross". What are they? Burgers! 
• Can you eat just one Lay's potato chip? 
• Clearer skin in 5 days or your money back - at least that's what the ad says. 
• Are there really 1000 chocolate chips in every bag of Chips Ahoy? 
• Do Pillsbury Pizza Pops really have more stuff? 
• The Oreo cookie cream on the package looks too good to be true.