Lesson Plans and Activities
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Lesson Plans - Subject: Home Economics
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Budgeting and Financial Planning
Budgeting and financial planning.doc
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Consumer Assignment - Price Comparison
Price Comparison.doc
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A Year 8 lesson plan which allows students to compare the cost of ten basic food items in two different shops.
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Consumer Protection
Consumer Protection1.doc
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A Year 11 GCSE Business Studies Lesson Plan - To introduce and develop a knowledge and understanding of the concept of consumer protection in relation to the product element of the marketing mix and the organisations involved in supporting and enforcing consumer protection legislation.
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Consumer Rights - Internet Activity
Consumer Rights - Internet Activity.doc
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This set of activities requires Internet access. As well as developing skills in using the Internet the lesson aims to encourage pupils to identify the key facts from a website. The lesson is used as a revision exercise or as a summary of previous work on a range of consumer issues. (Year 11)
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Consumer Rights and Responsibilities
Sales of Goods Act.doc
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A lesson plan for GCSE Home Economics and Business Studies students. Using a range of resources this lesson helps pupils develop an understanding of the Sales Of Goods Act. The activities allow pupils to put into practice their knowledge of this law by identifying ways in which the Act can be broken and then carrying out customer and supplier role-plays. Using further resources the lesson also allows students to practice drafting a complaints letter. (Year 11)
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Consumer Rights and Responsibilities - The impact on consumer and business Parts 1&2
GCCNI - post pri 3 Consumer behaviour final.doc
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By exploring this relationship students will re-visit and evaluate a range of issues; their rights as a consumer as well as their responsibility to make informed choices; their ability to seek redress/satisfaction; an understanding of the needs of producers and sellers; how advertising and information are used; how the way we shop has brought about changes in the way we are protected as consumers and how exercising our consumer influence can in turn impact on the quality of goods and services on offer. This is a research project with the guidance below providing a simple framework for pupils to use to research different elements of the consumer and producer relationship. (Key Stage 4/ A Level)
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Consumer Rights and Responsibilities – The relationship between producer and consumer in a changing market place
Consumer Rights and Responsibilities.doc
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A Key Stage 4 lesson Plan. By exploring this relationship students will re-visit and evaluate a range of issues; their rights as a consumer as well as their responsibility to make informed choices; their ability to seek redress/satisfaction; an understanding of the needs of producers and sellers; how advertising and information are used; how the way we shop has brought about changes in the way we are protected as consumers and how exercising our consumer influence can in turn impact on the quality of goods and services on offer.
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Consumers R Us - Web Quest
Web quest.doc
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This structured activity helps students to find information regarding consumer rights and responsibilities from a range of websites.
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Customer Care and Satisfaction
Lesson Plan 1 -Customer care and satisfaction.doc
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These activities draw on the students own consumer experiences to explore how good customer service impacts on both the consumer and retailer. This lesson plan is one of six, which link to the Consumer Council’s ‘Buy Rights – Have Your Say’ DVD and support materials. This lesson could also be used in relation to work experience activities and part-time jobs.
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Food Choices
Food Choices.doc
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These activities are designed to extend pupils understanding of the consequences of their food choices in the context of the world food market. It provides opportunities to look at where and why certain crops are grown. Examine the impact of consumer demand for out of season products, for suppliers, local and global producers.
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Know your consumer rights
Lesson Plan 3- Know your consumer rights.doc
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These activities build on the ‘Reasons to complain’ lesson plan. Students explore basic consumer rights and responsibilities, look at what the law states and what this means in terms of our individual consumer entitlement. This lesson plan is one of six, which link to the Consumer Council’s ‘Buy Rights – Have Your Say’ DVD and support materials.
Aims:
- To increase students awareness of their consumer rights
- To examine specific consumer rights in relation to the purchase of goods and services
- To appreciate that consumers have rights as well as responsibilities
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Making a complaint
Lesson Plan 2 -Making a complaint (1,2,3).doc
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These three linked lesson plans consist of a series of activities, which build on the ‘Reasons to complain’ and ‘Know your consumer rights’ lesson plans in this section. They are based around a central activity of making a complaint.
The activities look at:
1. How to complain effectively
2. Complaining about goods
3. Complaining about services
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Personal Finance 2- Managing My Money – What’s out there to help me?
Personal Finance 2.doc
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This series of suggested activities will expose pupils to the range of financial products and services available to them as consumers. It will allow them to assess what might be best for them in managing their finances responsibly. For example, do I need a bank account? Is a credit card a good idea? How do I work out the best deal for me if I want to borrow? (Key Stage 3/4)
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Raising Consumer Awareness and Skills
Consumer Awareness.doc
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This lesson plan can be used for students aged 14/15 across a range of subjects. It is designed to make students more aware of their needs and wants as consumers, how to complain effectively and to establish understanding of consumers rights under the Sale of Goods Act, 1979.
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Reasons to complain
Lesson Plan 4- Reasons to complain.doc
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These activities use the student’s own experiences of purchasing goods and services to explore how things might go wrong for consumers. This lesson plan is one of six, which link to the Consumer Council’s ‘Buy Rights – Have Your Say’ DVD and support materials.
Aims:
- To examine a range consumer experiences
- To increase students awareness of their consumer responsibilities
- To appreciate that consumers have rights as well as responsibilities
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Recycling
Recycling.doc
Size: 194 K
These activities are designed to get students thinking about the issues around recycling and waste. Looking at the types and levels of packaging, it will allow them to consider how consumers can make a difference to the amount of rubbish currently going into landfill sites. It could be linked to living independently, and our individual responsibility in disposing of waste.
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Sustainable Consumption 2. - … It’s all in the presentation…
Sustainable Consumption2.doc
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These activities use the context of product packaging to explore how we are influenced as consumers by presentation. (See activity The Power of advertising also). It introduces pupils to consumer rights in terms of labelling legislation in place to protect consumers but also to the wider impact of our decision to choose certain products over others. (Key Stage 3)
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Using and Conserving Energy
Using and Conserving Energy.doc
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These activities are designed to get students thinking about the issues around energy needs, use and conservation. It will allow them to consider how consumers can make a difference to energy consumption. It also explores alternative sources of energy in the home. This could be linked to living independently, and how they might manage their own fuel costs.
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Wants and Needs
Consumer Wants and Necessities.doc
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These activities are designed to enable pupils to distinguish between wants and necessities and understand the interdependence of wants. At a basic level, pupils, when presented with pictures will be able to differentiate between various lifestyles as well as highlighting the apparent similarities. The lesson will introduce pupils to the notion of allocating a fixed amount of purchasing power to their wants. Finally, students are required to classify a range of sources into necessities and luxuries. (Years 8 and 9)
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Water - Taste Test and Value for Money
Water.doc
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A Year 13 lesson plan for use with water section of AS Module 1 Home Economics.
Pupils test 10 samples of bottled water and decide on a preferred one and discuss acceptability and value for money.
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What is a Consumer?
What is a consumer.doc
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A year 8 lesson plan that allows consumers to define the term consumer, identify a range of goods and services used by consumers and compare range of retail outlets.
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From activities in this lesson pupils will understand the pressures exerted on them by their peer group. Exercises require pupils to interpret data and then gain an understanding of the benefits of financial planning. The lesson also teaches pupils the importance of budgeting and allows them to construct a personal budget. (Year 10)