Consumer Education

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Teenagers

Budgeting

Into: Teaching financial and money skills Lesson plans Secondary schools

This section is aimed at key stage three pupils (11-14). The session aims to explore and challenge pupils’ pre-conceptions about earnings, spending and lifestyle, and to develop pupils’ understanding of the difference between one’s needs and wants. Learners are able to budget in order to manage their own personal finances, and evaluate the consequences when making financial decisions. Critical thinking and enquiry Pupils should be able to: Research, plan and undertake enquiries into (...) Read more

Teenagers , Numeracy , PSHE , Business Studies

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Needs v wants

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

Resources Whiteboard Pens Flipchart paper to make a note of pupil suggestions during discussions Set of Bradley family character profile sheets - ’Needs & Wants’ activity Set of worksheets ‘Can You Afford It?’ one each Further Information Personal Finance Education Group Young Enterprise FSA Money Made Clear Learn about Money - An interactive website teaching about money management Money, money, money - An online guide to basic finance from the Citizenship (...) Read more

Teenagers , Numeracy , PSHE , Business Studies

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Spending and saving

Into: Teaching financial and money skills Lesson plans Secondary schools

This section is aimed at key stage three pupils (11-14). The sessions aim to explore different attitudes to spending and saving, to get pupils to think about the different responsibilities one has at different life stages and to know how and where to get advice if they experience financial difficulties. Learners are able to budget in order to manage their own personal finances, and evaluate the consequences when making financial decisions. Download the Spending and saving lesson plan. (...) Read more

Teenagers , Citizenship , Consumer Skills , Mathematics , Numeracy , Business Studies

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Budgeting

Into: Teaching financial and money 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 Set of worksheets ‘Can You Afford It?’ one each Set of Bradley family character profile sheets (Needs & Wants) Further Information Personal Finance Education Group Young Enterprise FSA Money Made Clear Learn about Money - An interactive website teaching about money management Money, money, money - An online guide to basic finance from the Citizenship (...) Read more

Teenagers , Consumer Skills , Numeracy , PSHE , Business Studies

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How can you pay?

Into: Teaching financial and money skills Lesson plans Secondary schools

Teenagers , Mathematics , Quiz , Numeracy

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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 , Literacy , Consumer Skills , PSHE , Food Design and Technology

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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 , Literacy , Consumer Skills , PSHE , Food Design and Technology

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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 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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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 , Sustainability , Citizenship , Literacy , Business Studies , Food Design and Technology , Science

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Impact of food on the environment

Into: Teaching consumer responsibility Teaching materials and resources Secondary schools

Resources Whiteboard Pens Flipchart paper to make a note of pupil suggestions during discussions ’Why are people hungry? worksheet, which includes: Food costs What are the main causes of the rising prices? Causes & consequences Why are corn, rice, soya and wheat so important? Further information World Food Programme Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations Millennium Development (...) Read more

Teenagers , Sustainability , Citizenship , Consumer Skills , PSHE , Science

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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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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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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 , Citizenship , Literacy , PSHE

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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 , Citizenship , Literacy , English , PSHE

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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 , Citizenship , Literacy , PSHE , ICT

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Issues in local community

Into: Teaching consumer rights Teaching materials and resources Secondary schools

Resources Whiteboard Pens Flipchart paper to make a note of pupil suggestions during discussions Local newspapers Community magazines Access to the internet Planning your investigation activity materials Further Information Directgov Local Government Group Department for Communities and Local Government Local Government Association UK Youth Parliament British Youth Council Parliament UK Headliners Participation (...) Read more

Teenagers , Citizenship , Consumer Skills , PSHE , ICT

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How much do you know about EU law?

Into: Teaching consumer rights Lesson Plans Secondary schools

Teenagers , Quiz , Consumer Rights

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