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Lesson 2: Shopping (Junior Certificate Level)
Learner Group: Junior Certificate Age group: 12-15 years No of classes: 2 classes @ 40 minutes each Curriculum Context: Junior Certificate (Home Economics, Business Studies) Learning Outcomes Skills: To develop communication, investigation and identification skills Attitudes: To adopt good shopping practices Knowledge: To know the techniques used by companies to encourage buying. Teaching and Learning Materials Tool 1: Power Point presentation (optional) Tool 2: Worksheet: (...) Read more
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Lesson 3: Budgeting for Teens (Junior Certificate Level)
Learner Group: Junior Certificate Age Group: 12 - 15 years No. of classes: 1 session of 40 minutes Curriculum context: Junior Certificate (Home Economics and Business Studies) Learning Outcomes Skills: Students will be able to plan a budget for themselves or for a family Students will demonstrate their understanding of the concept of balancing a budget Attitudes: Students will appreciate the benefits of budgeting Knowledge: Students will be able to explain the key terms related to (...) Read more
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Lesson 5: Recognising Scams (Junior Certificate/Leaving Certificate Levels)
Target Group: Junior and Senior Cycle Age: 13 -16 years Time: 2 sessions @ 40 minutes each Curriculum Context: Junior Certificate: Social Personal and Health Education (SPHE); Civics Social and Political Education (CSPE); Business Studies Transition Year Programme: Social Studies; Media Studies; Communications. Learning Outcomes Skills: *Distinguish between a scam e-mail/letter/phone call/website and a real one *Know what steps to take if the event of being the victim of a (...) Read more
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Borrowing
Lesson 2: I want it now! (Junior Certificate Level)
Learner Group: Post-Primary Students - Junior Certificate Age group: 12-16 years of age No of Classes: 2/3 classes @ 40 minutes per session Curriculum Context: Junior Certificate: Business Studies (The Business of Living); Home Economics (Consumer Studies) Transition Year Business Learning Outcomes Skills: Identify different sources of finance Understand the pros and cons of borrowing Calculate the cost of different types of borrowing Be able to apply for a loan (...) Read more
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Lesson 3: Borrowing Money to Buy My First Car (Junior Certificate/Leaving Certificate Levels)
Target Group: Teenagers and young adults Learner Group: Second Level Senior Cycle Students including Transition Year Age group: 16 - 19 years Time: 1 x double class or 2 x single classes Curriculum Context: Home Economics, Business Studies, Information Technology, Lifeskills Learning Outcomes Skills: Ability to plan and calculate costs, income, expenditure and budgeting Attitudes: Responsible decision making and understanding of rights and obligations in (...) Read more
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Lesson 4 : Credit Uncovered (Junior Certificate Level)
Target Group: Junior Certificate, 12-15 years Time: 1 session @ 40 minutes Curriculum Context: Junior Certificate (Home Economics, Business Studies) Learning Outcomes Skills: Communicating Investigating Identifying Brainstorming Attitudes: To adopt good credit practices Knowledge: Awareness of the terminology involved in credit buying. Teaching and Learning Materials Required Tool 1: Worksheet - Credit Uncovered Tool 2: Information Sheet - Credit Cards Group (...) Read more
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Lesson 5 : Getting a loan from the Credit Union (Junior Certificate/Leaving Certificate Levels)
Target Group: Post-Primary - Junior Certificate Students, 12-16 years NFQ Level 3 Time: 2 or 3 sessions @ 40 minutes Curriculum Context: Junior Certificate : Business Studies (The Business of Living) ; Home Economics (Consumer Studies) Transition Year Business Learning Outcomes Skills: Distinguish between Credit Unions and other Banking Institutions Identify different services offered by Credit Unions Understand the advantages and disadvantages of borrowing money Be able to (...) Read more
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Lesson 2 : Comparing Savings Accounts (Junior Certificate Level)
Learner Group: Junior Certificate/Transition Year/Leaving Certificate Age group:14yrs – 18yrs Time: 1 or 2 x 40 minute classes Curriculum Context: Junior Certificate: Business Studies, Home Economics, CSPE Transition Year modules/courses; Lifeskills, Business Studies Leaving Certificate: Home Economics Further Education modules: General studies Learning Outcomes Skills: List the benefits of savings Recognise the types of savings accounts/methods that are low/medium/high risk (...) Read more
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Lesson 3 : Saving for a Rainy Day! (Junior Certificate Level)
Target group: Junior Certificate Age group: 12-15 years Time: 1 @ 40min lesson Curriculum Context: Junior Certificate (Home Economics, Business Studies) Learning Outcomes Skills: Communicating Investigating Identifying Filling in application from for a bank account. Attitudes: To adopt good saving practices. Knowledge: Awareness of the terminology involved in saving How to go about setting up an account. Teaching and Learning Materials Tool 1: Worksheet - (...) Read more
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Lesson 2 : How to Complain! (Junior Certificate)
Target Group: Junior Certificate (12-15 years) Time: 1 class @ 40mins Curriculum Context: Junior Certificate (Home Economics, Business Studies) Learning Outcomes Skills: Problem Solving Investigating Identifying Brainstorming Attitudes: To be aware of consumer rights Knowledge: To know of the procedure involved in making a complaint To understand the terminology involved in the Small Claims Court Teaching and Learning Materials Required Tool 1: (...) Read more
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Lesson 3 : Worth the risk? Be sure - insure! (Junior Certificate)
Target Group: Post-Primary Students - Junior Certificate (12-16 years of age) Time: 3 or 4 classes @ 40 minutes each Curriculum Context: Junior Certificate - Business Studies (The Business of Living – Insurance) Transition Year – Business Learning Outcomes Skills: Students will be able to explain the different types of Insurance Students will be able to complete a proposal form Students will be able to calculate premiums and compensation Students will be able to apply the (...) Read more
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Lesson 3: Budgeting for Teens (Junior Certificate Level)
Test your knowledge of budgeting terminology by filling in the missing words. Read more
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Lesson 5: Recognising Scams (Junior Certificate/Leaving Certificate Levels)
Answer True or False to each of the questions in the interactive quiz and then check your score. Read more
Credit and Credit Cards QuizInto: Lessons
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Lesson 4 : Credit Uncovered (Junior Certificate Level)
Students can test their knowledge of credit and credit cards with this online multiple choice quiz. Read more
Credit Unions QuizInto: Lessons
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Lesson 5 : Getting a loan from the Credit Union (Junior Certificate/Leaving Certificate Levels)
Students can test their knowledge of credit unions using this online quiz. Read more
Savings QuizInto: Lessons
Saving/Investing
Lesson 3 : Saving for a Rainy Day! (Junior Certificate Level)
Test your knowledge with the multiple-choice on-line quiz. Read more
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Lesson 2 : How to Complain! (Junior Certificate)
Test your knowledge of the Small Claims Court. Click on the link to access the quiz. Read more
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Lesson 3 : Worth the risk? Be sure - insure! (Junior Certificate)
Test your knowledge of insurance with this on-line quiz. Read more
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Lesson 2: Shopping (Junior Certificate Level)
Students are asked to match shopping outlets with the correct description of the outlet type. Click on the link to access the Student Worksheet. Read more
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Lesson 3: Budgeting for Teens (Junior Certificate Level)
The Budgeting worksheet asks students to consider the importance of budgeting. Click on the link to access the student worksheet. Read more
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Lesson 5: Recognising Scams (Junior Certificate/Leaving Certificate Levels)
Students are asked to identify if they think that the scenarios presented in the worksheet are scams or not. Click on the link to access the worksheet. Read more
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Lesson 2: I want it now! (Junior Certificate Level)
Case Study Read more
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Lesson 4 : Credit Uncovered (Junior Certificate Level)
Students are asked to complete a worksheet on the topic, ’credit’. Worksheet Read more
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Lesson 5 : Getting a loan from the Credit Union (Junior Certificate/Leaving Certificate Levels)
Click here to go to Powerpoint Presentation. Read more
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Saving/Investing
Lesson 2 : Comparing Savings Accounts (Junior Certificate Level)
This worksheet allows the user to budget for savings from their weekly/monthly income Worksheet - Budget Planner Read more
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Lesson 2 : How to Complain! (Junior Certificate)
Worksheet Read more
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Lesson 3 : Worth the risk? Be sure - insure! (Junior Certificate)
Case Study Read more
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Lesson 2: Shopping (Junior Certificate Level)
Click on the link to access the answers to the Shopping Outlets worksheet. Read more
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Lesson 2: Shopping (Junior Certificate Level)
This resource examines some of the techniques that shops use to encourage shoppers to buy. Click on the link to access the information sheet. Read more
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Lesson 2: Shopping (Junior Certificate Level)
This worksheet looks at the family food shopping list. Click here to access the student worksheet. Read more
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Lesson 2: Shopping (Junior Certificate Level)
This worksheet looks at the use of technology when shopping today. Click on the link to access the student worksheet. Read more
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Lesson 2: Shopping (Junior Certificate Level)
This worksheet explores the value and purpose of receipts when shopping. Click here to access the student worksheet. Read more
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Lesson 2: Shopping (Junior Certificate Level)
Students can test themselves on shopping terminology with this crossword. Answers to the crossword are provided in Tool 7a. Click on the link to access the shopping crossword. Read more
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Lesson 2: Shopping (Junior Certificate Level)
This tool provides answers to the crossword (for teachers use!) Click on the link to access the Shopping crossword answers. Read more
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Lesson 3: Budgeting for Teens (Junior Certificate Level)
Students are required to plan a weekly budget for a teenager in this worksheet. Click on the link to access the worksheet. Read more
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Lesson 3: Budgeting for Teens (Junior Certificate Level)
Students are asked to work out a family budget for the Jones Family (case study). Click on the link to access the Budgeting for a Family worksheet. Read more
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Lesson 3: Budgeting for Teens (Junior Certificate Level)
Tool 4 provides the answers to the Budgeting for a Family case study (Tool 3). For teachers use! Click on the link to access the answer sheet. Read more
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Lesson 4: Advertising (Transition Year Level)
This activity aims to make students aware of the fact that advertising in some format or other is part of their everyday lives and surrounds them in everything they do. Click on the link to access the teachers resource sheet on advertising. Read more
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Lesson 4: Advertising (Transition Year Level)
Students try to fill in the grid identifying all the sources of advertising they have experienced. Click on the link to access the student worksheet. Read more
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Lesson 4: Advertising (Transition Year Level)
The correct answers to the student worksheet (Tool 5) are provided here. Click on the link to access the completed answer sheet. Read more
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Lesson 4: Advertising (Transition Year Level)
In this worksheet the students match the ’advertising’ words in the first column with the appropriate explanation in the second column. Click here to access the Student Vocabulary Worksheet Read more
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Lesson 4: Advertising (Transition Year Level)
Many advertisements try not just sell a product but also a way of life. Various techniques are used to achieve this end. In this worksheet students are asked to identify advertising campaigns that use a range of these selling techniques. Click on the link to access the worksheet. Read more
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Lesson 4: Advertising (Transition Year Level)
These extracts from the Children’s Advertising Code should be copied for students. They will be used with the questions on the code in Tool 8. Click here to access the Extracts. Read more
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Lesson 2: Shopping (Junior Certificate Level)
The Powerpoint presentation introduces the topic shopping to the students. Click here to open Shopping Powerpoint Presentation Read more
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Lesson 5: Recognising Scams (Junior Certificate/Leaving Certificate Levels)
This sheet details the top ten scams in Ireland. Source: National Consumer Agency (NCA) Source: National Consumer Agency http://www.nca.ie Click on the link to access the the Top Ten Scams in Ireland. Read more
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Lesson 5: Recognising Scams (Junior Certificate/Leaving Certificate Levels)
Were you ever the target of one of these scams? Click on the link to access the worksheet. Read more
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Lesson 5: Recognising Scams (Junior Certificate/Leaving Certificate Levels)
Handout with guidelines on ways protect oneself from scams. Click on the link to access the handout. Read more
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Lesson 6 : Making a Complaint about Advertising (Leaving Certificate Level)
Five case studies are provided for discussion and follow up activities. Click here to access the case studies Read more
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Lesson 2: Shopping (Junior Certificate Level)
Test your knowledge of shopping terminology Read more
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Saving/Investing
Lesson 2 : Comparing Savings Accounts (Junior Certificate Level)
This information sheet contains information on the range of savings products available. Handout - Savings Accounts Read more
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Lesson 2: I want it now! (Junior Certificate Level)
Worksheet - Sources of Finance Read more
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Lesson 2: I want it now! (Junior Certificate Level)
Pros & Cons of Borrowing Read more
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Lesson 2: I want it now! (Junior Certificate Level)
Worksheet - Calculating Costs Read more
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Lesson 2: I want it now! (Junior Certificate Level)
Loan Application Worksheet Read more
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Lesson 2: I want it now! (Junior Certificate Level)
Crossword Read more
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Lesson 3 : Saving for a Rainy Day! (Junior Certificate Level)
This information sheet looks at the various reqirements of the bank when a person is opening a new account. Information Sheet Read more
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Lesson 3 : Saving for a Rainy Day! (Junior Certificate Level)
Personal Current Account Application Form Read more
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Lesson 5 : Getting a loan from the Credit Union (Junior Certificate/Leaving Certificate Levels)
Students complete a mock application form which will be used in the role play exercise later in the lesson. Students should use ficticious details, names etc. Loan Application Form Read more
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Lesson 5 : Getting a loan from the Credit Union (Junior Certificate/Leaving Certificate Levels)
This worksheet looks at the steps to making a loan application at the credit union. The student is asked to number the steps in the correct order. Worksheet Read more
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Lesson 5 : Getting a loan from the Credit Union (Junior Certificate/Leaving Certificate Levels)
Students can use this wordsearch to revise new terminology acquired in this lesson. Wordsearch Read more
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Lesson 4 : Credit Uncovered (Junior Certificate Level)
Use this tool to illustrate how credit cards work. Information sheet Read more
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Lesson 2 : How to Complain! (Junior Certificate)
Worksheet Read more
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Lesson 2 : How to Complain! (Junior Certificate)
The teacher will need to print out the sheet below for each group and cut along the dotted lines in advance of playing the game. Click on the link to access the game cards. Read more
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Lesson 2 : How to Complain! (Junior Certificate)
Form Read more
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Lesson 3 : Worth the risk? Be sure - insure! (Junior Certificate)
Worksheet Read more
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Worksheet Read more
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Lesson 3 : Worth the risk? Be sure - insure! (Junior Certificate)
Click here to go to the fact sheet. Read more
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Lesson 3 : Worth the risk? Be sure - insure! (Junior Certificate)
Worksheet Read more
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Lesson 3 : Worth the risk? Be sure - insure! (Junior Certificate)
Crossword Read more
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Lesson 3 : Worth the risk? Be sure - insure! (Junior Certificate)
Claim Form Read more
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Worksheet Read more
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Ceachta 7: Taispeán dom an t-airgead!
Meaitseáil na doaine thíos leis an cur síos a bhaineann leo. Billeog Oibre Read more
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Ceachta 7: Taispeán dom an t-airgead!