The Olympics is one of the world's biggest marketing platforms and, as such, presents the private sector with a vast range of advertising opportunities. One new area of opportunity is school-based Olympic education. While previous studies have revealed some of the marketing strategies used by Olympic sponsors in Olympic education, there is still a…

The media and the contemporary consumer culture are central categories in modern childhood. They have opened new kinds of experiences and learning situations for children. In this article we are interested in the role of the media and consumption in schoolchildren's daily life. The data consist of writings and drawings of 7-12-year-old…

This curriculum guide for nutrition education grade 1, was designed to incorporate knowledge of thirteen concepts into the child's decision-making processes as a food consumer. These concepts, as covered by the guide, are: affecting bodily well-being through nutrition; affecting dental health through nutrition; models for diet selection;…

Objectives of the fourth unit of the first grade section of the Focus on Inner City Social Studies (FICSS) series (see SO 008 271) are to help the student develop an understanding of his needs and his economic environment. The many learning activities, focus on the economic system -- consumers, money, exchange of goods, use of resources,…

This unit of study provides teaching guidelines and student material for use in kindergarten and first grade language arts or consumer education programs. Time allotment is six hours of classroom time over a period of two weeks. The objective of the capsule is to help students discriminate between advertisements and pictures in a magazine and to…

The guide, one in a series of elementary level economics and consumer education teaching resources, is designed for kindergarten and first grade levels. The guide identifies objectives for economics and consumer education, offers a glossary of relevant terms, lists general audiovisual and print resources, and outlines specific learning activities…

This unit, which contains a teacher's guide and student materials, is designed for students with limited acquaintance with money (Grades K-1). Activities reinforce the basic concept of recognizing a penny, counting pennies, and associating monetary value with pennies from one to ten cents. These activities include listening to a taped read-along…

The teacher's guide is the third in a series of three developed for primary or early intermediate levels. It consists of learning experiences designed to build student familiarity with basic economic terms and concepts: consumer, producer, needs, wants, goods, services, short-range and long-range planning, fixed and variable expenses, and budgets.…

The teacher's guide is the first in a series of three developed for primary and early intermediate levels. The learning experiences focus on helping students to develop an understanding of the family as an economic unit, to acquire elementary classification skills, to appreciate the priority families must place on satisfying basic economic needs,…

Presenting a set of guidelines for grades K-1, this teacher's manual is one in a set of three competency rating scales which provide guidelines for the infusion of career guidance concepts into the elementary school curriculum. These rating scales were developed by the Georgia Comprehensive Career Guidance Project (Final Report, CE 018 130) which…

The teacher's guide is the second of three developed for primary and early intermediate levels. The learning experiences focus on helping the student to develop an understanding of the family as an economic unit and of money as a medium of exchange that facilitates trade; to identify ways of earning, saving, and spending money; to recognize the…

The curriculum guide presents a working draft of the first grade component of a K-6 social studies program using the expanding environments approach which was developed by the Allegany County Board of Education in Maryland. The overall objective is to help teachers assist their students in gaining the understanding needed to deal with the problems…

This publication contains Arizona public schools' academic standards for Grade 1. The contents of this document include the following: (1) The Arts Standard 2006--Grade 1; (2) Comprehensive Health Education/Physical Activity Standards 1997--Foundations (Grades 1-3); (3) Foreign and Native Language Standards 1997--Foundations (Grades 1-3); (4)…

This publication contains Arizona public schools' academic standards for grade 2. The contents of this document include the following: (1) The Arts Standard 2006--Grade 2; (2) Comprehensive Health Education/Physical Activity Standards 1997--Foundations (Grades 1-3); (3) Foreign and Native Language Standards 1997--Foundations (Grades 1-3); (4)…

This publication contains Arizona public schools' academic standards for grade 3. The contents of this document include the following: (1) The Arts Standard 2006--Grade 3; (2) Comprehensive Health Education/Physical Activity Standards 1997--Foundations (Grades 1-3); (3) Foreign and Native Language Standards 1997--Foundations (Grades 1-3); (4)…