Mini Companies

Planning for the Future Quiz

Into: Lessons Saving/Investing Lesson 6: Rainy Days are never far away! (Transition Year/Leaving Cert Applied)

Test your knowledge of terminology related to savings and investments with this true or false quiz. Read more

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Lesson plan: The Game of Risk!

Into: Lessons Protecting/Insuring Lesson 6 : The Game of Risk! (Transition Year/ Leaving Certificate)

Target Group: Post-primary senior cycle (15-18 year olds) Time: One session @ 80 minutes Curriculum Context: Post Primary Senior Cycle: Economics; Business Studies Transition Units: Local and Global Citizenship; Enterprise; Mini Companies Learning Outcomes Skills: Create summaries of information in their own words Be able to group ideas according to attributes and explain the basis for their classification Draw generalisations while being aware of their limitations Work (...) Read more

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Risky Questions Quiz!

Into: Lessons Protecting/Insuring Lesson 5 : Risk Assessment (Transition Year/Leaving Certificate)

Test your knowledge of risk with this true or false on-line quiz. Read more

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Understanding Risk Quiz

Into: Lessons Protecting/Insuring Lesson 6 : The Game of Risk! (Transition Year/ Leaving Certificate)

Test your knowledge of RISK with this on-line true or false quiz. Read more

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Tool 1: PowerPoint Presentation

Into: Lessons Spending Lesson 4: Advertising (Transition Year Level)

The PowerPoint Presentation introduces the topic and provides material for discussion on advertising. There are some questions posed in the final slide that students could think about. Click here to go to Powerpoint Presentation Read more

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Tool 1: Student Worksheet - The Game of Risk!

Into: Lessons Protecting/Insuring Lesson 6 : The Game of Risk! (Transition Year/ Leaving Certificate)

Click on the link to access the worksheet. Read more

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Tool 2: Advertising all around us (for teachers use)

Into: Lessons Spending 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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Tool 3: Advertising all around us (student sheet)

Into: Lessons Spending 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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Tool 4: Vocabulary (for teachers use)

Into: Lessons Spending 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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Tool 5: Vocabulary (Student worksheet)

Into: Lessons Spending 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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