Lesson Plans and Activities
Lesson Plans - Subject: Personal Development (Primary)
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Being a Healthy Consumer – Food Choice
Being a healthy consumer.doc
Size: 73 K
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Being Healthy and Happy, laying the foundations
GCCNI - primary 2 the cost of leisure final.doc
Size: 189 K
This lesson is designed to get the children to think about what it means to be healthy and how diet and lifestyle can contribute to whether we are healthy or unhealthy and how this may effect us now or later. It also links with 'Being a Healthy Consumer'– Food Choice lesson and Consumer Influence – the Local Leisure Centre. (Key Stage 2)
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Consumer Decision Clothing
Consumer Decision Clothing 1c.doc
Size: 146 K
These activities will help pupils understand the wider consequences of the clothes they choose to buy. Where clothes come from, how they are produced and by whom, and what the potential impact of this is on the individual consumer, others in the world and their environment.
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Consumer Decision Making : Making Choices
Consumer Decisions Making Choices 1a.doc
Size: 126 K
This lesson starts by examining how we make choices and then looks broadly at how changes in the way we consume mean we have become global consumers, with goods arriving from across the world. The activities are designed to raise pupils' awareness of how even simple consumer decisions can impact on others, by providing an introduction to the concept of fair trade.
This lesson can lead into more detailed exploration of fair trade issues using the contexts of clothing or toys; efficient use of resources using the context of energy consumption and the true cost of transporting goods across the globe by looking at food and food miles. See lessons 1b, 1c, 1d and 1e.
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Consumer Decisions Energy
Consumer Decisions Energy 1e.doc
Size: 128 K
These activities will help pupils understand the wider consequences of energy consumption, by looking at where our energy comes from, how we use the various forms of energy and the relative costs. It examines what the potential impact of our energy consumption is on the individual consumer, other people in the world and the environment.
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Consumer Decisions: Global Food
Consumer Decisions Global Food 1b.doc
Size: 427 K
These activities will help pupils understand the consequences of their food choices in the context of the world food market. It looks at where foods come from, how food reaches our plates and the potential impact of our food choices on the individual consumer, people in other countries and the environment.
These activities link from 'Consumer Decisions – Making Choices' by offering more focussed extension activities
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Consumer responsibility
Consumer Responsibility.doc
Size: 129 K
This series of activities are designed to introduce pupils to thinking about their local community and use contexts such as litter, vandalism and graffiti to explore how individual, family and community behaviour can impact on quality of life.
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Effective Communication – Making Connections
Effective Communication.doc
Size: 72 K
This set of simple activities is designed to introduce pupils to the world of communications; how we communicate, the services available to help us to communicate and why it is important to be able to communicate effectively as a consumer. (Key Stage 2)
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Food Choices
Food Choices.doc
Size: 163 K
This series of activities are designed to extend pupils thinking around food choices, opportunities are provided to follow two different routes - how the consequences of our choices might impact either on our own health, or how the consequences of our choices might impact on other people and the environment.
These activities can be linked in with 'Being a Healthy Consumer – Food Choice' and would offer further extension activities for 'Consumer Decisions – making choices' and 'Consumer Decisions – the global food market'
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Interdependence in the Community
Interdependence.doc
Size: 78 K
This resource highlights interdependence at a community level which could focus on examples of everyday services which young people recognise.
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These activities are designed to raise pupils' awareness of the food we eat, how we decide what to eat and the influences upon us. The activities promote responsible consumer choice in the selection of food. (Key Stage 1)