This guide to supermarket shopping begins with a study of the American food shopper. The major types of shoppers and their needs are identified. Chapter 2 discusses planning at home. Topics include preparation of a comprehensive list, using coupons, impulse buying, and comparison shopping. Chapter 3 focuses on the actual shopping experience. Unit…

This guide to supermarket shopping provides information in an outline format. It first covers preliminary activities such as determining family needs, shopping on a budget, and planning at home. A number of suggestions are then made for the actual shopping. Topics include shopper aids (unit pricing, nutritional labeling, freshness coding), store…

This guide is intended for use in a consumer education course designed to teach consumers to get the most out of their dollar when shopping for and preparing food. The kit is divided into a series of sections containing activities and fact sheets that are designed to guide the consumer through a successful shopping trip. The following topics are…

This booklet provides some practical guidelines for determining total insurance needs, examining options, and comparing costs. It discusses how to fit insurance costs into an overall financial plan, the necessity of adequate liability coverage, and the importance of keeping policies up to date. The next four sections highlight the basic types of…

This package consists of various bilingual instructional materials for use in helping Indochinese refugees learn basic food purchasing and food storage skills. Included in the package are a Vietnamese/English bilingual booklet explaining 12 secrets of wise food buying and translations of guidelines for keeping foods safe (English, Vietnamese, Lao)…

With this instructional guide, teachers of eighth-grade family and consumer sciences courses can help their students create a school-to-work career portfolio and accomplish the following behavioral objectives during the process: demonstrate skills/attitudes essential for job interviews; describe the importance of academic and occupational skills…

This guide is designed to give advanced or upper-level consumer and homemaking education students a chance to take a futuristic look at the roles they will have as consumers in the next years. Divided into 12 units, the first three cover the consumer, the family, and consumer responsibilities. The next eight units are on the goods and services…

This course outline contains materials for use in conducting a course designed to prepare high school students for a number of community service occupations. Addressed in the individual units of the course are the following topics: interpersonal relationships with those needing services (families; aged, poor, handicapped, ill, and pregnant…

This fifth edition of a review and synthesis of research in home economics education covers the period from 1979 through 1985. The review covers research found in the ERIC database, the Comprehensive Dissertation Index, and professional journals, as well as from solicitations to the field. Criteria for selection include validity and reliability of…

These student learning materials deal with various life skills vital to personal development. The following topics are covered in the individual units: human relations (personality traits, employer expectations, human relations situations, and job attitudes); techniques for securing a job (locating employment opportunities and developing job…

This guide contains both teacher and student materials for a one-semester course in consumer education to be presented as part of an 11th or 12th grade or an adult vocational home economics program. The book is organized into six sections containing 15 units of instruction. The sections cover the following topics: management (of time, money,…