Lesson Plans and Activities
Lesson Plans - Topic: Sustainable Consumer/Development
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A Child's Desk Lamp
coke light.doc
Size: 801 K
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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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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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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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Water Efficiency - Is your home water-wise?
Water - Primary.doc
Size: 874 K
These activities were designed to introduce pupils to the topic of Water efficiency at home. This is an area of growing importance for all consumers in today's society. The importance of water in general and in our everyday activities was investigated. It raised pupils' awareness of the need to conserve water and the ways they could easily do this at home.
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In this Module, Year 9 pupils design and manufacture a child's desk light using a miniature soft drinks can. This module covers elements such as design, communication, manufacturing and energy and control.