Consumer Education
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Curriculum subjects
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Legal validation: 15/03/2011
Literacy
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 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
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Literacy
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Mathematics
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Quiz
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
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
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Literacy
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Consumer Skills
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Food Design and Technology
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Science
Understanding food ingredients
Into: Teaching safety and health skills Lesson plans Secondary schools
This section is aimed at key stage three pupils (11-14). The sessions aim to explore how much knowledge and understanding the pupils have in regards to the food and drink they consume. Learners are encouraged to think about the ingredients contained in products and how manufacturers advertise / market so called ‘healthy products’. Download the full ’Understanding Food Ingredients lesson plan. What do you know about the food you eat? Activity. Download the ’What do you know about the food (...) Read more
Teenagers
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Literacy
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Consumer Skills
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PSHE
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Food Design and Technology
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
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
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Literacy
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Consumer Skills
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Food Design and Technology
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Science
Balanced diet and food labelling
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 Labels from fruit based products at least 15 one for each pair (class size 30) ’What do you know about the food you eat’ worksheet How much fruit do you eat? worksheet Food labelling information worksheet Further information Example of food label The facts about salt Food Standards (...) Read more
Teenagers
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Literacy
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Consumer Skills
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PSHE
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Food Design and Technology
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 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
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Citizenship
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Literacy
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Consumer Skills
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PSHE
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Home Economics
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Food Design and Technology
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Science
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
Food and the environment
Into: Teaching consumer responsibility Lesson plans Secondary schools
This section is aimed at key stage three students (11-14). The session aims to explore why certain cereal crops are important and begin to understand the causes and effects the rising cost of these crops is having on food prices around the world. Learners will reflect on how what they consume on a daily basis, and the ingredients involved. Download the Responsible Consumers lesson plan. "Is the world heading for a food crisis?" Activity. Download the ’Why are people hungry? worksheet’ (...) Read more
Teenagers
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Sustainability
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Citizenship
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Literacy
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Business Studies
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Food Design and Technology
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Science
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
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Citizenship
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Literacy
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Consumer Skills
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English
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Consumer Rights
Services offered by local councils
Into: Teaching consumer rights Lesson Plans Secondary schools
This session is aimed at key stage three pupils (11-14). The session aims to raise students’ awareness of the variety of services offered by local councils; to get students to understand how these services are funded and who makes the decisions. Learners are able to see themselves both as product consumers and service consumers. They should reflect on the consumer’s role in services provided and demonstrate consumer responsibility towards the use and development of different kinds of (...) Read more
Teenagers
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Citizenship
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Literacy
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PSHE
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
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
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Literacy
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Consumer Skills
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English
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PSHE
Background to local government
Into: Teaching consumer rights Teaching materials and resources Secondary schools
Local councils are run by democratically-elected councillors. They are responsible for making decisions on behalf of the local community about local services, such as land use, refuse collection, and leisure facilities. Resources Whiteboard Pens Flipchart paper to make a note of pupil suggestions during discussions Access to the internet ’Who provides local services?’ quiz ’How is local government financed and run?’ information and activity sheet Further Information Directgov (...) Read more
Teenagers
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Citizenship
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Literacy
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English
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PSHE
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
Understanding local democracy
Into: Teaching consumer rights Lesson Plans Secondary schools
This session is aimed at key stage three pupils (11-14). The session aims to increase students understanding and interest in local democracy, by thinking about issues that concern them in their local area and how they might raise their concerns with the local council. Learners are able to identify services, and to evaluate the quality of services in order to play an active part and to make critical choices. Download the understanding local democracy lesson plan "Plan your (...) Read more
Teenagers
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Citizenship
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Literacy
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PSHE
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ICT
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