Consumer Education

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Children

Shopping and pocket money

Into: Teaching financial and money skills Lesson plans Primary schools

This series of activities are designed for 6-11 year olds. The activities focus on thinking about financial choices and a range of opportunities are provided to explore these concepts with children - how the consequences of our choices might impact either on our own lifestyle, or how the consequences of our choices might impact on other people and the environment. - Content: SHOPPING AND POCKET MONEY Concepts: Managing resources, consequences of consumer choice, advertising and (...) Read more

Children , Citizenship , Consumer Skills , Numeracy , PSHE

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Shopping and money

Into: Teaching financial and money skills Teaching materials and resources Primary schools

Resources Flipchart /whiteboard. Visual chart of coins. Plastic /real coins. Class shop containing a range of ‘real’ products from the local shops/supermarkets marked with large price labels and pictures of the coins that will be needed to pay for it. Additional Materials What did you buy today? Download the ‘What did you buy today’ Activity Sheet. My feelings about my purchases. Download the ‘My feelings about my purchases’ Activity Sheet. Further Information The Pfeg (...) Read more

Children , Citizenship , Consumer Skills , Mathematics , Numeracy , PSHE

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Wants v needs

Into: Teaching financial and money skills Lesson plans Primary schools

This series of activities are designed for KS2 pupils. The activities focus on thinking about needs and wants and how we budget to meet our needs. It explores the consequences of making choices and decisions around what we spend our money on. - Content: WANTS and NEEDS. Concepts: Using goods and services, consumer responsibility, managing resources. Skills: Seeking information and advice, decision making, communicating, thinking critically Attitudes: Responsibility, critical awareness, (...) Read more

Children , Consumer Skills , PSHE , Home Economics , Food Design and Technology

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Wants and needs

Into: Teaching financial and money skills Teaching materials and resources Primary schools

Resources: Bag of various products from shops which present a choice of wants and needs (food, water, toy car or clip art which could represent real car, book, sweet, etc). Flipchart / Whiteboard. Sugar paper for Pie Charts Additional Materials: Download the Needs v Wants’ Activity Sheet. Download the Household expenses - ideas sheet. Further information: The Pfeg website is very good to access case studies for Key Stage 1 & 2 and access available resources in one place. In (...) Read more

Children , Citizenship , Consumer Skills , PSHE , Home Economics

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What do you spend your pocket money on?

Into: Teaching financial and money skills Lesson plans Primary schools

Pocket money wordsearch The PDF document below contains a wordsearch for use with primary school children. There are 10 words hidden in the wordsearch and they are all items that children spend their pocket money on. If you double click on the PDF, you can download and print it out. The attached document also contains the solution to the wordsearch. Pocket money (...) Read more

Children , Literacy , Mathematics , Quiz

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Food labelling and advertising

Into: Teaching safety and health skills Lesson plans Primary schools

This series of activities are primarily designed for KS2, but could be adapted for KS1. The content focuses on consumers in the market place and food labelling and advertising. Content: FOOD (Labels and advertising) Concepts: Consumers in the market place, advertising and packaging, consequences of consumer action. Skills: Seeking information, thinking critically, decision making. Attitudes: Critical awareness, responsibility This series of activities focuses on consumers in the (...) Read more

Children , Literacy , Consumer Skills , Food Design and Technology , Science

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Food packaging and labelling

Into: Teaching safety and health skills Teaching materials and resources Primary schools

Resources: Collection of food with variety of packaging and labels Selection of advertisements from television, magazines and newspapers, particularly those aimed at children (food, sweets and crisps etc.). Flipchart /whiteboard. Additional Materials: Download the Packaging information record sheet Further information: Teachernet - this is a useful site for general teaching and learning ideas but also contains a link to ‘Wired for Health’ and ‘Healthy Schools’ websites which have (...) Read more

Children , Literacy , Consumer Skills , Food Design and Technology , Science

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Planning a healthy picnic

Into: Teaching safety and health skills Teaching materials and resources Primary schools

Resources: Visual material that shows different food groups (example provided), Child friendly supermarket websites, Spreadsheet with running total column (example provided) Additional Materials: Download the Planning for a healthy picnic spreadsheet Download the Financial planning spreadsheet Download the Success criteria score sheet Further information: Teachernet - this is a useful site for general teaching and learning ideas but also contains a link to ‘Wired for Health’ and (...) Read more

Children , Consumer Skills , Mathematics , PSHE , Home Economics

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Planning a picnic

Into: Teaching safety and health skills Lesson plans Primary schools

This series of activities are aimed at KS2 pupils. The activity focuses on planning a picnic. Content: PLANNING A CLASS PICNIC. Concepts: Consumer values and behaviour, consumer influence, advertising and packaging. Skills: Seeking information and advice, decision making, communicating, evaluating Attitudes: Critical awareness, self reliance, empathy. These activities could be used with adaptations across the whole of KS2. The theme links with PSHE. .For this activity to fully (...) Read more

Children , Consumer Skills , English , PSHE

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How much do you know about food labels?

Into: Teaching safety and health skills Lesson plans Primary schools

Children , Quiz , PSHE , Home Economics , Food Design and Technology

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Understanding packaging and recycling

Into: Teaching consumer responsibility Lesson plans Primary schools

This series of activities are designed for KS1&2. The activities focus on types of packaging and our responsibility as consumers to reduce reuse and recycle. - Content: PACKAGING and RECYCLING Concepts: Consumers in the market place, advertising and packaging, consumer responsibility, consumer influence, consequences of consumer action, consumer values and behaviour. Skills: Seeking information and advice, decision making, problem solving. Attitudes: Responsibility, Critical (...) Read more

Children , Sustainability , Citizenship , Consumer Skills , PSHE , Science

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Recycling

Into: Teaching consumer responsibility Teaching materials and resources Primary schools

Resources: Collection of a range of food packaging. Digital camera Garden implements Garden labels Marker pens (indelible) Additional Materials: Download the 3R’s activity sheet Download the What happens to packaging materials record sheet Further information: Recycle zone - The Recycle zone website contains a range of information and activities for students. Read more

Children , Sustainability , Citizenship , Consumer Skills , PSHE , Science

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Going on holiday

Into: Teaching consumer responsibility Lesson plans Primary schools

This series of activities provide a ‘team challenge’ approach, focusing on planning a holiday. The theme could be extended to provide lessons over several weeks and engage the children in a wider range of activity. - Content: PLANNING A HOLIDAY Concepts: Consumer values and behaviour, using goods and services, equality of access, consumer rights, customer charters, advertising and packaging, organizations which help us. Skills: Seeking information and advice, communicating, evaluating, (...) Read more

Children , Sustainability , Consumer Skills , PSHE , Geography , ICT

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Going on holiday

Into: Teaching consumer responsibility Teaching materials and resources Primary schools

Resources: Wide selection of holiday brochures for different destinations. List of websites. Whiteboard. Note paper Large sugar paper Pens and markers. Additional Materials: Download the ’Ideas for holiday destinations’ activity sheet Download the ’Team prompt and recording’ sheet Further lesson plans for extending the activity into a 5 week module. Download further holiday teaching plans Further Information: Environment Agency - This website provides good background information (...) Read more

Children , Consumer Skills , Geography , ICT

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Do you know how to deal with rubbish?

Into: Teaching consumer responsibility Lesson plans Primary schools

Children , Citizenship , Quiz

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Using postal services

Into: Teaching consumer rights Lesson Plans Primary schools

This series of activities are designed for KS1 pupils, but could easily be extended both for more able children and Year 2 children. The activities focus on using the postal service. - Content: POST OFFICE Concepts: Using goods and services, communicating satisfaction or dissatisfaction, consumer rights. Skills: communicating, resolving conflict, assertiveness. Attitudes: critical awareness, self reliance Learners are able to to see themselves both as product consumers and (...) Read more

Children , Citizenship , Literacy , Consumer Skills , English , Consumer Rights

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The Post Office

Into: Teaching consumer rights Teaching materials and resources Primary schools

Resources Used envelopes and parcels of various sizes and shapes 6 pieces of large card for addresses. Envelopes for the children to address Class Post box (could be made from cardboard box and painted red). 20p coin for each child. ‘Stamps’ for each child (these could be real or made up by sticky coloured dots). Stimulus pictures/photos - cut photos from magazines and download pictures from the internet. Example addresses Example stamps Further information: The Post Office - A user (...) Read more

Children , Literacy , Consumer Skills , English , PSHE

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Buying a mobile phone

Into: Teaching consumer rights Lesson Plans Primary schools

This series of activities are designed for KS2 pupils and focuses on choosing, using and paying for a mobile phone. - Content: MOBILE PHONES Concepts: Consumer values and behaviour, using goods and services, consumer responsibility, communicating satisfaction or dissatisfaction, consumer rights, advertising and packaging. Skills: Seeking information and advice, communicating, problem solving, resolving conflict, assertiveness. Attitudes: Self reliance, responsibility, critical (...) Read more

Children , Consumer Skills , Mathematics , Numeracy , ICT

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Mobile phones

Into: Teaching consumer rights Teaching materials and resources Primary schools

Resources: Selection of a variety of Mobile phone literature and tariffs (and /or - website addresses) Whiteboard Computer access for the evaluator of presentations: PowerPoint software (or similar) NB: It is important for the teacher not to promote, or to be seen to be promoting, one particular brand of phone or network Ensuring that a wide range of brands are represented should counter any potential bias. Additional Materials: Download the question framework and success criteria (...) Read more

Children , Consumer Skills , PSHE , ICT

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How much do you know about consumer rights?

Into: Teaching consumer rights Lesson Plans Primary schools

Consumer rights wordsearch The PDF document below contains a wordsearch for use with primary school children. There are 10 words hidden in the wordsearch and they are linked to consumer rights. If you double click on the PDF, you can download and print it out. The attached document also contains the solution to the wordsearch. Consumer rights wordsearch Read more

Children , Quiz , Consumer Rights , PSHE

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