Consumer Education
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Curriculum subjects
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Legal validation: 15/03/2011
Adults
Personal finance
Into: Teaching financial and money skills 
Lesson plans Adult education
Competences: Learners are able to explore information around personal finances and how they maybe able to use this to either improve or adapt their own budgeting skills. Time: 60mins -2 hrs (depending on ability and discussion work). Curriculum Context: | Life Skills/ Lifelong Learning, numeracy. Group: Adults – out of education for some time, immigrants, basic skills. Teaching and Learning Tools Introductory discussion work Check your “consumer profile” activity My priorities (...) Read more
Adults
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Literacy
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Consumer Skills
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Numeracy
Paying for goods and services
Into: Teaching financial and money skills Teaching materials and resources Adult education
Finance Discussion (Tutor Led) The tutor will introduce the session and ask students to list what they might spend wages/ allowances on. The tutor will list and display these so that students see them. The tutor should then recap with students and may have to prompt if key. Brief discussion and tutor notes on: What we go shopping for? Budget? Want v safety? My Consumer Profile This may not be appropriate for some learners, the tutor should gauge students impression of (...) Read more
Adults
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Literacy
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Consumer Skills
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Numeracy
Understanding financial terms
Into: Teaching financial and money skills Lesson plans Adult education
Competences : Learners are able to recognise and understand key financial and consumer words/terms and to consider how they may impact on their own finances. Time: 2 units 60mins each Group: 16+ Course for adults with learning difficulties Curriculum Context: Life Skills/ Lifelong Learning/Citizenship Assertiveness/ confidence building and self-advocacy Teaching and Learning Tools Fair/ Unfair statements worksheet What do these words or symbols mean? Activity Consumer word (...) Read more
Adults
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Literacy
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Consumer Skills
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Numeracy
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Home Economics
Understanding finance and consumer issues
Into: Teaching financial and money skills Teaching materials and resources Adult education
What do the Consumer Phrases means? Activity A list of key phrases are displayed with a list of meaning, students should match the symbol/word to the meaning. Discussion as a class should be used to work out the meanings of the words. Use worksheet Consumer Words – this can either be done as cut out cards to match or electronically. (The tutor should have a sufficient amount of information to present, in case the group find the task easy and are able to work through it quickly). Consumer (...) Read more
Adults
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Literacy
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Consumer Skills
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Consumer Rights
What is your budget?
Into: Teaching financial and money skills Lesson plans Adult education
Dolceta have created a Budget tool to help you work out your budget. You can use this tool to calculate your income and expenditure. Download the Dolceta Budget tool Read more
Adults
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Literacy
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Mathematics
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Quiz
Personal health and lifestyle
Into: Teaching safety and health skills Lesson plans Adult education
Competences: Learners are able to explore information around personal health and how they maybe able to use this to either improve or adapt their own lifestyles. Time: 60mins -2 hrs (depending on ability, resources and discussion work) Group: adults out of education for some time, immigrants, basic skills, family learning Curriculum Context: Life Skills/ Lifelong Learning, numeracy, independent living skills, citizenship, (business studies) Teaching and Learning Tools (see tool 3) (...) Read more
Adults
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Literacy
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Consumer Skills
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Business Studies
Consumer choice and advertising
Into: Teaching safety and health skills Teaching materials and resources Adult education
What influences you choices? Questionnaire The tutor should present the list of questions to the group; however these can be adapted to focus on one advertisement. Learners should consider and select their answers, learners are invited to offer alternative answers relevant to the question. Each learner’s answers should be recorded on flip chart/ board so that the group can then discuss why they have given those answers. Sharing of opinions among peers may add influence to learner’s (...) Read more
Adults
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Literacy
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Consumer Skills
Food packaging and healthy lifestyles
Into: Teaching safety and health skills Teaching materials and resources Adult education
Tutor Led activity: Food packaging exercise The tutor should collect a variety of food packets including, healthy options, fast food, microwave, frozen, good quality, value/ economy, fresh and long life. These will be used by the learners to compare and contrast ingredients, fat, salt and sugar content and other labelling information. The tutor should try to establish what the learner’s can already identify. This will help the tutor to evaluate how to pitch the rest of the session i.e. (...) Read more
Adults
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Citizenship
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Literacy
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Home Economics
Food and health
Into: Teaching safety and health skills Lesson plans Adult education
Competences: Learners are able to recognise the volume of consumer choice available and within that choice consider what might be the healthiest and manageable option for themselves. |Time: 60mins -2 hrs (1hr per each topic food/ health activities)| Groups: Adults - 16+, young parents groups, learning difficulties, learning disabilities Curriculum Context: Life Skills/ Lifelong Learning, independent living skills, literacy Teaching Approach: It is important to stress that (...) Read more
Adults
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Literacy
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Consumer Skills
Effects of consumption on the environment
Into: Teaching consumer responsibility Lesson plans Adult education
- Competences: Learners are able to explore different environmental and ethical information and recognise/ understand the importance and impact that it should have on consumption. Time: 60mins – 2hrs Group: Adult Learners Curriculum contex: Life Skills/ Lifelong Learning, healthy eating, local and global citizenship/Independent living skills. Teaching approach - Interactive and visual activities A small project can be set as a follow up session whereby learners investigate where they (...) Read more
Adults
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Sustainability
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Consumer Skills
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Home Economics
Environmental and ethical labels
Into: Teaching consumer responsibility Teaching materials and resources Adult education
Logo/Symbol Cards or Powerpoint presentation Learners are presented with a selection of environmental or ethical labels/ logos and asked to identify them. The tutor then feeds back to the group about the meaning and brief history behind the logo. Download the ‘Are you a responsible shopper?’ powerpoint 5 session ethical consumption program The scheme of work is developed for adult learners who have learning difficulties and/ or learning disabilities. It aims to introduce learners (...) Read more
Adults
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Sustainability
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Citizenship
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Consumer Skills
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Home Economics
Labelling of products
Into: Teaching consumer responsibility Lesson plans Adult education
Competences: Learners should be able to recognise and familiarise themselves with important safety/quality and ethical information on products. Time: 2 units 60mins each Group: 16+ Adult learners Curriculum Context: Life Skills/ independent living skills, family learning, Citizenship Teaching and Learning Tools Teaching Approach Interactive and visual group work activities, using own experiences or if not appropriate case studies or examples provided by the tutor. Using examples (...) Read more
Adults
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Citizenship
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Consumer Skills
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Consumer Rights
Product labelling
Into: Teaching consumer responsibility Teaching materials and resources Adult education
Safety Labels card (Tutor Led activity) The tutor holds up cards with different safety symbols for the group to identify. It is not necessary to keep score but this will help the tutor to evaluate how to pitch the rest of the session i.e. if the learner knowledge is very little then the session might focus solely on the purpose of the labels. However if the knowledge is good then time can be allocated to the budget work. Brief discussion and tutor notes on: What we go shopping for? (...) Read more
Adults
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Consumer Skills
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Home Economics
Contracts for buying goods and services
Into: Teaching consumer rights Lesson Plans Adult education
Learners are able to explore language around consumer education and recognise/ understand important meanings with regard to contracts for buying goods and services. To understand the role of consumer rights when buying goods or services To know who to seek advise and redress from Competences: Learners are able to understand what are classed as ‘goods’ and what ‘services’ mean for consumers. Also to gain and understanding of what their consumer rights with services and goods. Time: 2hrs (...) Read more
Adults
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Literacy
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Consumer Rights
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Home Economics
Buying goods and services
Into: Teaching consumer rights Teaching materials and resources Adult education
What do we buy? Learners are asked to list the things they buy, the tutor records this. The next stage is for the tutor to present a 2 column table dividing goods and services. Learners should decide which items from the first list should go in which column. Students should be able to justify their answers. Use activity sheet ‘What do we buy?’. Download the How do we buy goods and services activity sheet. How do we buy goods and services? Activity The aim of this activity is for (...) Read more
Adults
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Citizenship
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Literacy
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Consumer Skills
Rights when buying goods and services
Into: Teaching consumer rights Lesson Plans Adult education
Competences: Learners are able to understand what might influence their choices with regards to buying/ using services, recognise key service providers and to gain an understanding of what their consumer rights with services and goods. Learners are asked to identify service providers and explore how they might resolve problems in this area as a consumer. - To recognise the role of the consumer accessing and using services- To understand the role of consumer rights when buying goods or (...) Read more
Adults
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Citizenship
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Consumer Rights
How much do you know about contracts?
Into: Teaching consumer rights Lesson Plans Adult education
Adults
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Quiz
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Consumer Rights
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