Lesson Plans and Activities
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Lesson Plans - Subject: Life Skills
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Budgeting and Financial Planning
Budgeting and financial planning.doc
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Budgeting Sheet
BUDGET gcc.xls
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This useful budgeting sheet helps you to calculate your income and expenditure weekly, monthly or yearly to aid the management of your personal finances.
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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
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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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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 - My financial future – what do I want to do and what do I need to do it?
Financial Capability.doc
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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
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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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Safe Internet Shopping
GCCNI - post pri 2 Internet shopping final.doc
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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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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)