Lesson Plans and Activities
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Lesson Plans - Subject: Citizenship
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Are you confident to manage your finances?
Quiz 1.final.doc
Size: 95 K
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Business Behaviour
Business Behaviour (2) V2.doc
Size: 148 K
This activity extends the initial lesson 'How do businesses behave', providing students with the opportunity to explore environmental issues based around sustainable development. These days' consumers and governments are demanding that businesses operate in a more responsible and environmentally friendly way.
Disposing of waste responsibly, energy/resource conservation; using recycled materials in the manufacturing of products and anti pollution measures are all important issues for businesses, given the current trends in corporate responsibility and environmental awareness.
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Consumer Decision Making - The Power of Advertising
The Power of Advertising.doc
Size: 71 K
These activities invite the pupils to explore advertising, its power and how as consumers we can limit the impact of advertising if we are able to understand its purpose and intent.
(See activities on sustainable consumption – 'tell you what I want' and 'It's all in the presentation') in relation to how advertising influences our purchasing decisions. (Key Stage 3/4)
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Consumer Power -Shop ‘til you drop?
Consumer Power.doc
Size: 68 K
These activities use the context of a proposed out of town shopping centre to examine how consumer activities impact on the environment and in addition how consumers through their actions can exercise influence. It allows pupils to consider how consumers' needs are to be represented in a democracy and the rights and responsibilities of consumers in this context.(Key Stage 3/4).
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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
Size: 110 K
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
Size: 85 K
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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Financial matters
Financial Matters.doc
Size: 874 K
These activities are linked by a central theme of making the best use of our money. Each section can be used as a stand-alone lesson or used together as part of a module on preparation for adult life.
The activities look at:
Saving for the future
Looking after your money
Buying household services
These activities would offer further extension activities to existing lesson plans 'My financial future – what do I want to do and what do I need to do it?' and 'Managing my money – what's out there to help me?'
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Food Choices
Food Choices.doc
Size: 163 K
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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How do businesses behave?
GCCNI - post pri 1 Bus and Ethics final.doc
Size: 87 K
This activity provides and introduction for students to understand the complexity involved in the decisions businesses need to make. These issues often arise when business needs to balance the needs of various groups such as their employees, consumers and often the demands of government in areas such as the environment. This series of activities could not cover all syllabus content but is intended to provide a starting point for this topic area.
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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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Life in The Global Village and The Global Fashion Industry
Global fashion show.doc
Size: 89 K
This unit of activities is designed for Key Stage 3 pupils. It invites them to explore those aspects of globalisation that affect them and allow them to consider some of the contrasts in development, which exist globally.
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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 - My financial future – what do I want to do and what do I need to do it?
Financial Capability.doc
Size: 76 K
This series of suggested activities will encourage students to consider the kind of lifestyle they want and the financial plans they will need to put in place to achieve this. Whether it is further study, employment, self employment, there will be financial issues to consider in ensuring future financial security. (Key Stage 3/4)
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Personal Finance 2- Managing My Money – What’s out there to help me?
Personal Finance 2.doc
Size: 83 K
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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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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Safe Internet Shopping
GCCNI - post pri 2 Internet shopping final.doc
Size: 111 K
These activities will help to contextualise learning around the use of the Internet. Allowing teachers and students to explore consumer issues around the whole area of purchasing on the Internet and the impact on consumers. The activities link well with GCCNI's recent Buying Online report. (See resource section) (Key Stage 4)
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Sustainable Consumption 1. - …I’ll tell you what I want…
Sustainable Consumption1.doc
Size: 83 K
These activities will help pupils establish the distinction between needs and wants and how this is a relative concept. This series of activities can be used with the advertising activities (The Power of advertising) to explore how our attitudes towards needs and wants can be shifted by advertising. (Key Stage 3)
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Sustainable Consumption 2. - … It’s all in the presentation…
Sustainable Consumption2.doc
Size: 76 K
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
Size: 146 K
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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What is a Consumer?
What is a consumer.doc
Size: 90 K
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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This quiz together with the Money Matters Quiz that can be found on the Shoparound website are intended to reinforce learning in financial capability. (Key Stage 3/4)
This quiz can be used in conjunction with the Money Matters Quiz at Levels 1, 2 and 3 on www.shoparound.org.uk