Financial Literacy
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Spending
This section on spending contains 6 activity-based lesson plans and resources developed for use within the Irish Curriculum at Primary and Post-primary levels.
The topics include budgeting and shopping; the influence of advertising on our lives and how to make a complaint about advertising. Students are introduced to the issue of scams and their prevalence in society today. For younger students a lesson on the history of money is included.
Lesson 1: All About Money (Senior Primary Level)
- Lessons → Lesson Plan: All About Money
- Tools → Tool 1 : Worksheet - The Earliest Currency in Ireland
- Tools → Tool 2 : Irish Money Timeline – PowerPoint
- Tools → Tool 3 : Money Wordsearch
- Tools → Tool 4: Worksheet: Irish Coins
- Tools → Tool 5 : Euro Coins Addition
- Tools → Tool 6 : Euro Maths Problems
- Quiz → The History of Money in Ireland Quiz
Lesson 2: Shopping (Junior Certificate Level)
- Lessons → Lesson Plan: Shopping
- Tools → Tool 1: PowerPoint Presentation
- Tools → Tool 2: Worksheet - Shopping Outlets
- Tools → Tool 2a: Answers to Shopping Outlets worksheet (for teachers use!)
- Tools → Tool 3: How shops encourage you to buy buy buy!
- Tools → Tool 4: Worksheet - Shopping List
- Tools → Tool 5: Worksheet - Shopping Technology
- Tools → Tool 6: Worksheet - Receipts
- Tools → Tool 7: Crossword - Shopping
- Tools → Tool 7a: Shopping Crossword Answers
- Quiz → Quiz: Shopping
Lesson 3: Budgeting for Teens (Junior Certificate Level)
- Lessons → Lesson plan: Budgeting for Teens
- Tools → Tool 1: Worksheet - Budgeting
- Tools → Tool 2: Worksheet - My Budget
- Tools → Tool 3: Worksheet - Budgeting for a Family
- Tools → Tool 4: Budgeting for a Family - answer sheet
- Quiz → Quiz: Budgeting Terminology
Lesson 4: Advertising (Transition Year Level)
- Lessons → Lesson plan: Advertising
- Tools → Tool 1: PowerPoint Presentation
- Tools → Tool 2: Advertising all around us (for teachers use)
- Tools → Tool 3: Advertising all around us (student sheet)
- Tools → Tool 4: Vocabulary (for teachers use)
- Tools → Tool 5: Vocabulary (Student worksheet)
- Tools → Tool 6: Techniques Used in Advertising
- Tools → Tool 7: Extracts from the Children’s Advertising Code
- Tools → Tool 8: Questions on the extracts from the Children’s Advertising Code
- Tools → Tool 9: Student Debate: TV Advertising for Children
- Tools → Tool 10: Worksheet on Advertisements
- Quiz → Quiz: Advertising
Lesson 5: Recognising Scams (Junior Certificate/Leaving Certificate Levels)
- Lessons → Lesson plan: Recognising Scams
- Tools → Tool 1: Scam or Not?
- Tools → Tool 2: Top Ten Scams in Ireland
- Tools → Tool 3: Teenager Targeted Scams
- Tools → Tool 4: How to Protect Yourself?
- Quiz → Quiz: Recognising Scams
Lesson 6 : Making a Complaint about Advertising (Leaving Certificate Level)
- Lessons → Lesson plan: Making a Complaint About Advertising
- Tools → Tool 1: How to make a complaint about advertising
- Tools → Tool 2: Case Studies
- Tools → Tool 3: Questions on case studies
- Tools → Tool 4: On-line Complaints Form
- Quiz → Quiz - Making a Complaint about Advertising
Ceachta 7: Taispeán dom an t-airgead!
- Tools → Daoine and a n-ioncam
- Quiz → Ceisteanna agus Freagraí
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