Consumer Education

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Home Economics

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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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 , Literacy , Consumer Skills , Numeracy , Home Economics

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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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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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Making healthy choices

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

Resources Whiteboard Pens Flipchart paper to make a note of pupil suggestions during discussions Access to the internet Access to computers if you want pupils to do PowerPoint presentations Selection of labels which show both the traffic light label and GDA schemes ’Making healthy choices’ worksheet Food labelling information worksheet Further Information Example of a food label The facts about salt Food Standards (...) Read more

Teenagers , Consumer Skills , English , PSHE , Home Economics

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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 , Citizenship , Literacy , Home Economics

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Food labelling

Into: Teaching safety and health skills Lesson plans Secondary schools

This section is aimed at key stage three students (11-14). The session aims to explore how food manufactures and retailers label their food. To get pupils to understand and be aware that consumers have a right to know what they are eating and to know how healthy the products are. Learners will look at food products which might be unhealthy if eaten too often and whether such products should be clearly labelled. Download the full Food labelling lesson plan. "Making healthy choices" (...) Read more

Teenagers , Citizenship , Literacy , Consumer Skills , PSHE , Home Economics , Food Design and Technology , Science

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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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How much do you know about healthy eating?

Into: Teaching safety and health skills Lesson plans Adult education

Quiz , Home Economics , Food Design and Technology

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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 , Sustainability , Consumer Skills , Home Economics

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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 , Sustainability , Citizenship , Consumer Skills , Home Economics

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Dealing with food waste

Into: Teaching consumer responsibility Lesson plans Secondary schools

This section is aimed at key stage three pupils (11-14). The sessions aim to explore why so much food is wasted and the impact the rising food price is having around the world. Learners will be encouraged to think about how these changes effect themselves and others and to start think abut what they can do. Download the full ’Dealing with food waste’ teaching plan. "Can we afford to thow food away? Activity This session starts with a de-brief from the homework (from the lesson relating (...) Read more

Teenagers , Sustainability , Consumer Skills , PSHE , Home Economics , Food Design and Technology

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Dealing with food waste

Into: Teaching consumer responsibility Teaching materials and resources Secondary schools

Resources Whiteboard Pens Flipchart paper to make a note of pupil suggestions during discussions Food Mountain- discussion and activity sheet Global Impact of Food Price rises - discussion and activity sheet Help the Planet - discussion sheet Further Information World Food Programme Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals Read more

Teenagers , Sustainability , Citizenship , PSHE , Home Economics , Food Design and Technology

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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 , Consumer Skills , Home Economics

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Do you know where your food comes from?

Into: Teaching consumer responsibility Lesson plans Secondary schools

Teenagers , Quiz , Home Economics , Food Design and Technology

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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 , Literacy , Consumer Rights , Home Economics

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