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Weaver, Sue – 2001
This lesson plan helps students understand the role consumer demand plays in the market system, i.e., how interactions in the marketplace help determine pricing. Students will participate in an activity that demonstrates the concepts of demand, demand schedule, demand curve, and the law of demand. The lesson plan provides student objectives;…
Descriptors: Consumer Economics, Cost Indexes, Economics, Economics Education
Nappi, Andrew T. – Journal of Business Education, 1981
Reviews four broad clusters of concepts which are of fundamental importance for consumer economic understanding in the secondary school and gives suggestions that can be used to build a consumer economics program in the secondary school. (LRA)
Descriptors: Business Education, Consumer Economics, Consumer Education, Economic Factors

Hamilton, Taddie – Social Studies Texan, 1992
Describes a six-week economics project for high school students. Suggests teaching consumer economics by having students pretend they are broke and out on their own. Discusses activities, materials, and student essays demonstrating the use and understanding of basic consumer terminology, credit, insurance, budgeting, and housing. (DK)
Descriptors: Consumer Economics, Economics Education, Learning Activities, Secondary Education

Davis, Deborah; And Others – Social Science Record, 1979
Describes a learning activity intended to introduce students in fourth-grade social studies classes to basic business and consumer economics practices. The activity involves forming groups of business partners, deciding on a type of business to set up, deciding how to obtain land and set up a store, creating a money system, advertising, arranging…
Descriptors: Consumer Economics, Economics Education, Educational Objectives, Elementary Education
Moseley, Patricia A. – Southwestern Journal of Social Education, 1979
Proposes strategies and activities for use by elementary school social studies classroom teachers as they develop and implement consumer education programs. Guidelines include defining the problem, identifying goals, considering alternatives, analyzing consequences, and selecting a solution in terms of goals. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Consumer Economics, Decision Making Skills, Economics Education, Educational Objectives
Auyer, Stephen E. – Creative Computing, 1981
A computer program written in BASIC designed to simulate the activities of businesses in a marketplace where several car companies compete is provided. The educational uses of this program in an eighth-grade consumer economics class are highlighted. (MP)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Programs, Consumer Economics, Economics Education

Scoville, James G. – Journal of Economic Education, 1991
Presents a diagram for figuring the value of time into an individual's labor-supply decisions and the time intensiveness of the individual's consumption patterns. Seeks to make the integration of differing time values with leisure income choices more understandable for students. (DK)
Descriptors: Consumer Economics, Decision Making, Economics, Economics Education
Davis, James E. – 1987
This booklet presents a research-based rationale for teaching economics at the middle/junior high school level in the United States. Chapter 1, "Introduction," describes the project in which the rationale was developed and outlines the remainder of the document. Chapter 2, "Elements of a Rationale for Middle School Economic Education," presents…
Descriptors: Consumer Economics, Curriculum Development, Economic Factors, Economics Education

Fitzsimmons, Edward L. – Journal of Economic Education, 1989
Presents an example that illustrates the connection between taxation of private goods or services and provision of public goods or services. Demonstrates that the burdens of taxation in the private sector can in theory be offset by gains in consumer surplus in the public sector, providing a more balanced view than can be found in many introductory…
Descriptors: Business Cycles, Consumer Economics, Economic Factors, Economics Education
Heyne, Paul; Stevahn, Laurie – 1982
Consumer decision-making and its consequences for individual consumers and societal groups are examined in this economic unit for secondary school students. Seven lessons focus on developing an understanding of the concepts of scarcity, supply and demand, resources, choice, price, and interdependence and on fostering an economic way of thinking.…
Descriptors: Concept Teaching, Consumer Economics, Consumer Education, Decision Making
Jensen, Barbara J.; And Others – 1986
This instructional guide adds two new sections to the original guide published in May 1982. The guide was designed to assist educators in teaching the topics of consumer credit and consumer credit protection to secondary and postsecondary students in various economics and business courses, as well as in adult and community education courses. The…
Descriptors: Consumer Economics, Consumer Education, Consumer Protection, Credit Cards
Maxey, Phyllis F.; Meier, Stephen C. – 1983
One of a series of units on business issues for high school students, this packet uses the example of hamburger wars ("price wars" between hamburger stands) to introduce students to the ways in which businesses operate in a competitive environment. A teacher's guide and student materials are provided in two separate sections. Following…
Descriptors: Business, Business Communication, Case Studies, Competition
Lang, Melvin – 1987
Forty-seven elementary school teachers, librarians, curriculum specialists, and administrators participated in a research oriented education course that consisted of 15 television programs designed to help elementary school teachers and students analyze and understand economic concepts. Teachers also: (1) viewed programs with students; (2) used a…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Attitude Change, Consumer Economics, Economics

Frank, Bjorn – Journal of Economic Education, 1998
Recommends reviewing the 1958 debate between P. A. Samuelson and J. R. Minasian over the controversy involving tax-financed television versus pay-TV. This exercise is a lively way to introduce students to the issue of exclusionary devices for public goods. Includes graphical analysis and excerpts from the original debates. (MJP)
Descriptors: Consumer Economics, Debate, Decision Making, Economics
Schoenberg, Arthur; Stichter, Kenneth – 1984
A major assignment for twelfth grade social science students at a California high school deals with the basic components of survival on one's own. Students must simulate moving out of their parents' home, finding a job, making major household and transportation purchases, buying on credit, investing money, buying insurance, and getting involved in…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Consumer Economics, Daily Living Skills, Economics Education