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Adult - Managing Your Income

Into: Finance Management -Competence 1 : managing finances -Teaching and learning approaches

Title: Managing Your Income Time: 3 sessions of 45 minutes Target audience: Adults returning to education Curriculum Context: Course / Programme / Awarding Body: Further Education and Training Awards Council (FETAC) Level 3 Subject / Module: Mathematics Personal Effectiveness Personal and Interpersonal Skills Communications Learning Outcomes: Learners will: Skills: Recognise their own spending patterns, Identify priorities, Plan effective use of weekly income, Plan effective (...) Read more

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Adult - Getting Yourself Out of a Financial Fix

Into: Finance Management -Competence 1 : managing finances -Teaching and learning approaches

Title: Getting Yourself Out of a Financial Fix Time: 3 sessions of 45 - 60 minutes Target audience: Adult Learners: Formal and non formal learning environments in the community Could be adapted for Post Primary Level: Junior Certificate, Transition Year, Leaving Certificate & Leaving Certificate Applied: Curriculum Context: Adult Learners: Because of the nature of this topic, the lesson plan/sessions could be used with informal learning groups where no certification is awarded (...) Read more

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Post Primary - Budgeting

Into: Finance Management -Competence 1 : managing finances -Teaching and learning approaches

Title: Budgeting Time: 3/4 sessions of 45 minutes Target audience: Teenagers (12 - 18 years) Curriculum Context: Junior Certificate Business Studies: The Business of Living Transition Year Business Leaving Certificate Business: Unit 4.1 ICT Home Economics: Budgeting Adult learners Learning outcomes: Skills: Identify personal and/or household income & items of expenditure, Understand the layout of a budget, Prepare a budget (manually and using computer software). Attitudes: (...) Read more

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Post Primary - Shopping Online

Into: Finance Management -Competence 2 : undertake financial risk assessement -Teaching and learning approaches

Title of Lesson: Shooping Online Time: 3 sessions of 45 minutes Target audience: Post Primary - Senior Cycle (15 -18 yrs) Curriculum Context: Post Primary Leaving Certificate: Economics Leaving Certificate: Home Economics Leaving Certificate Applied: Social Education Transition Year: Business, Maths and Personal effectiveness related Learning Outcomes: Skills: Respond appropriately to different scenarios relating to shopping online Attitudes: Appreciate the importance of (...) Read more

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Adult - You and your money! Bad Times

Into: Finance Management -Competence 1 : managing finances -Teaching and learning approaches

Target group: Adult Learners: Formal and non formal learning environments in the community Time: 3 classes of 40-60 minutes each Curriculum links Post Primary: Junior Certificate: Business Studies & Home Economics; Leaving Certificate: Economics; Transition Year: Business, maths and personal effectiveness related modules / transition units Session content can be adapted to meet learner needs and learning styles Adult Learners: Because of the nature of this topic, the lesson (...) Read more

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Post Primary - Toy Safety

Into: Safe and Healthy Consumers -Competence 1 : use and evaluate information -Teaching and learning approaches

Title: Toy Safety Time: 3 sessions of 45 - 60 minutes Target audience: Post Primary Learners Junior Certificate, Transition Year, Leaving Certificate, Leaving Certificate Applied Adult / FE Learners: Formal and non formal learning environments in the community. Curriculum Context: Post Primary Junior Certificate: Home Economics, Childcare Option Leaving Certificate Applied: Vocational Specialism -Childcare/Community Care Transition Year: Childcare Modules Further Education FETAC (...) Read more

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Post Primary - Do you CARE what’s on the LABEL?

Into: Safe and Healthy Consumers -Competence 1 : use and evaluate information -Teaching and learning approaches

Title: Do you CARE what’s on the LABEL? Time: 1 session of 40 minutes Target audience: Junior Certificate (12-15 years) Curriculum Context: Junior Certificate Home Economics Leaving Certificate Applied – Childcare/Social Care FETAC Childcare Level 5 Adults – General Education Learning Outcomes: Skills: Handling information, Interpreting information, Make informed decisions Attitudes: Consumer awareness, Consumer responsibility Knowledge: Identify product information Lesson Plan (...) Read more

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Adults - Organic and GM Foods

Into: Safe and Healthy Consumers -Competence 2 : apply consumer knowledge to health management -Teaching and learning approaches

Title: Organic and GM Foods: using product information to make healthy and safe consumer choices Time: 2 sessions of 45 minutes Target audience: Adult Learners & Post Primary students Curriculum Context: FETAC levels 3, 4 and 5 including Youth Work, Childcare, Catering or Health Care courses. Adult learners in community education and personal development courses Transition Year students Leaving Certificate Home Economics, Leaving Certificate Biology. Learning Outcomes: Enable (...) Read more

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Adult - What Are We Eating? - understanding food labels

Into: Safe and Healthy Consumers -Competence 1 : use and evaluate information -Teaching and learning approaches

Title: What are we eating? - understanding food labelling Time: 2 sessions of 45 minutes Target audience: Adult learners: Level 4-5. Returning to education, or on vocational courses Teenagers Curriculum Context: Childcare or health care courses, at FETAC levels 3, 4 and 5. Including the modules; Caring for Children 0-6 (level 5), Caring for Children (level 4). Adult learners in community education and personal development courses. Learning Outcomes: Enable learners to: Skills: Make (...) Read more

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Post Primary - Responsible Consumption: Footprints and Handprints

Into: Responsible Consumers -Competence 2 : analyse product quality and promote sustainability -Teaching and learning approaches

Title: Responsible Consumption: Footprints and Handprints Time: 3 sessions of 40 minutes Target audience: Teenagers (12 -15 years) Curriculum Context: Junior Certificate: Civic, Social and Political Education (CSPE) Learning Outcomes: Skills: Recognise that consumer can influence the way goods are offered in the market place, Recognise that consumers can share goods, Develop communication skills Attitudes: Acknowledge the need for responsible product choice, Show concern for the (...) Read more

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Post Primary - Responsible consumption: Thinking globally, acting locally

Into: Responsible Consumers -Competence 1 : reflect on and evaluate consumption patterns -Teaching and learning approaches

Title: Responsible consumption: Thinking globally, acting locally Time: 3 sessions of 40 minutes Target audience: Teenagers (12 - 15 years) Curriculum Context: Junior Certificate: Civic, Social and Political Education (CSPE) Home Economics Geography Learning Outcomes: Skills: Recognise that consumers can have influence on the way goods are offered in the market place (Green Bingo Reflection Questions; Ideas Bank), Use information critically (Green Bingo Reflection Questions; Ideas (...) Read more

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Adult - The True Cost of Clothing

Into: Responsible Consumers -Competence 1 : reflect on and evaluate consumption patterns -Teaching and learning approaches

Title: The True Cost of Clothing Time: 3 sessions of 60 minutes Target audience: Adult Learners Curriculum Context: FETAC modules This lesson plan could be use with a variety of groups in a range of settings, for example: Consumer studies, Social studies, Environmental studies, Communications/debating Learning Outcomes: Skills: Recognise that consumers have influence on the way goods are offered in the market place, Communicate likes and dislikes, Use information, Evaluation skills (...) Read more

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Adult - Human rights based approach to consumption

Into: Responsible Consumers -Competence 2 : analyse product quality and promote sustainability -Teaching and learning approaches

Title: Human Rights based approach to consumption Time: 2 sessions of 60 minutes Target audience: Adults - FETAC Level 5 and 6, Upper Post-Primary Curriculum Context: FETAC, Level 5 and 6, Leaving Certificate, Transition Year Social Studies Environmental Studies Political Studies Communications (Debating) Home Economics, Social and Scientific Civic, Social and Political Education English Learning Outcomes: Skills: Planning and organising Attitudes:Responsibility for choosing (...) Read more

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Post Primary - Service with a smile…or maybe not!

Into: Services -Competence 2 : recognize consumers influence on service quality -Teaching and learning approaches

Title: Service with a smile…or maybe not! Time: 7 sessions of 45 - 60 minutes Target audience: Post Primary Level Leaving Certificate: Home Economics (Scientific and Social) Leaving Certificate Applied: Office Administration and Customer Care Transition Year: Business, maths and personal effectiveness related modules / transition units Junior Certificate: Business Studies Adult Learners: Formal and non formal learning environments in the community Curriculum Context: Post Primary (...) Read more

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Post Primary - Are you a litter ‘gum bug’?

Into: Services -Competence 1 : demonstrate consumer responsibility towards the use of services -Teaching and learning approaches

Title: Are you a litter ‘gum bug’? Time: 2 sessions of 90 minutes Target audience: Teenagers (12-15 years) Curriculum Context: Junior Certificate Level: SPHE, CSPE, Home Economics, Geography Senior Primary Curriculum Learning Outcomes: Learners will: Skills: Practice responsible disposal of litter and in particular disposal of GUM Attitudes: Appreciate the effect that litter has on the environment and the community when not disposed of responsibly, Appreciate the role that each (...) Read more

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