Provides examples of age-appropriate saving and spending activities that teachers can encourage in students to help them develop wise consumer behaviors. Suggests that younger children can save money in piggy banks or savings accounts, and older students can utilize checking accounts and mutual funds. All students can donate unneeded possessions…

Lesson plans are provided for use with different populations of pre-K through senior high school students in four different areas of consumer education. Eight units in advertising are included: A First Look at Ads (pre-K-Grade 3), Don't Judge a Book by Its Cover (Grades 1-3), Fatal Distraction (Junior High), Package Labeling (Junior High), Product…

This consumer's (or student's) guide for a home-study money management curriculum is divided into five units of study: (1) financial planning; (2) coping with credit; (3) protection through life insurance; (4) financial aspects of housing; and (5) making your money grow. Each unit contains fact sheets, charts, and quizzes. The fact sheets in unit…

Several intermediate performance objectives and corresponding criterion measures are listed for each of six terminal objectives for an 18-week consumer education-home economics course for 10th, 11th, and 12th grade students. Purposes listed for the course are to develop an understanding of the American market system, and how the individual affects…

The textbook is intended for use in college methods classes in business education and is a practical how-to-do-it guide containing many examples, illustrations, and techniques adapted from actual classroom observations and experience providing variety, socialization, discussion, and problem solving in the classroom. The text is based on the…

Consumer education may be included in the curriculum in four ways: (1) as a separate course; (2) taught jointly by a home economics teacher and a business education teacher; (3) taught by teams of teachers in home economics, business education, and social studies; and (4) by including consumer education subject matter in a course in business, home…

This curriculum guide on Consumer Education, designed for high school seniors, was developed to help students become aware of and knowledgeable about their role as consumers in today's society. The following key concepts for study are emphasized: general principles of consumer purchasing; consumer credit; general principles of fraud, quackery,…

The booklet explores various roles which money has played throughout history and examines the relationship between money and the Federal Reserve System. The major objective is to increase understanding of the performance of various functions such as making money work as a medium of exchange and as a measure of value and of storing value for future…

This guide is intended to assist those interested in developing and/or assessing consumer skills. It is an accompanyment to a separate collection of survey items (mostly in a multiple choice format) designed to assess seventeen-year-olds' consumer skills. It is suggested that the items can be used as part of an item pool, as an instructional tool,…

The guide presents units of instruction for secondary consumer education and home management education which were developed at a workshop. The subject areas covered by the units, their teaching time, and suggested grade level areas are as follows: (1) organizing resources (one to two weeks, grade 7), (2) making personal and consumer decisions (two…

This textbook, designed for use in the secondary grades, colleges, and for adult education, is intended for use in both consumer education and consumer economics courses. Its objective is to develop an awareness of the importance of making wise consumer decisions. A rationale for the textbook precedes 16 topical chapters, a glossary, a selected…

The fourth in a series of modules--Expanded Programs of Consumer Education--this material is designed to help the poor make better use of their income and to stimulate those of high income to a greater understanding of the problems of their fellow-citizens. The modules are prepared for high school students as separate publications to provide…

Concepts in consumer education can be arranged into a taxonomy of three primary categories: decision making, resource management, and citizen participation. Consumer programs have these goals: (1) producing competent buyers and users of goods and services; (2) producing competent financial managers; (3) producing an understanding of the economy;…

This guide is intended to assist curriculum planners and classroom teachers in designing and implementing personal finance instruction to meet a variety of student needs, interests, and abilities. It is organized under five concept areas: employment and income, money management, credit, purchase of goods and services, and rights and…

This annotated bibliography was developed to provide high school and college teachers in consumer economics a reference to teaching materials and aids on personal finance. The content is presented in five sections, as follow: (1) reference materials for teachers (includes eighteen entries of general reference materials; thirteen college and high…