Lesson Plans and Activities
Lesson Plans - Topic: Consumer behaviour
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Consumer Decision Clothing
Consumer Decision Clothing 1c.doc
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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 Decision Making : Making Choices
Consumer Decisions Making Choices 1a.doc
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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
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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
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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 Influence – The Local Leisure Centre
Consumer Influence.doc
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This series of suggested activities explores time as a resource and how we use this some of the time for leisure activities. At a basic level the activities use the need for local leisure facilities as the context for exploring how we can communicate as consumers and how we can influence the provision of services. (Key Stage 2)
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Consumer Power -Shop ‘til you drop?
Consumer Power.doc
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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 responsibility
Consumer Responsibility.doc
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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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Food Choices
Food Choices.doc
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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
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This resource highlights interdependence at a community level which could focus on examples of everyday services which young people recognise.
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Sustainable Consumption 1. - …I’ll tell you what I want…
Sustainable Consumption1.doc
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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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Wants and Needs
Consumer Wants and Necessities.doc
Size: 175 K
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 Efficiency - Is your home water-wise?
Water - Primary.doc
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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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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.