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Carr, Patricia – Learning, 1985
Information and resources are provided for teachers in developing a unit to help students become smarter consumers and understand the purposes of merchandise packaging. (DF)
Descriptors: Consumer Education, Consumer Protection, Elementary Education, Learning Activities
Peer reviewedLytle, Dennis – Business Education Forum, 1973
Descriptors: Business Education, Consumer Education, Educational Needs, Junior High Schools
Wax, Carolyn J. – Illinois Teacher For Contemporary Roles, 1972
Provides six examples of ways to individualize instruction in the areas of nutrition and consumer education. (SB)
Descriptors: Autoinstructional Aids, Consumer Education, Home Economics Education, Individualized Instruction
Peer reviewedBoduch, Ted J. – Business Education Forum, 1971
Descriptors: Business Education, Class Activities, Consumer Education, Economics
Peer reviewedPeterson, Warren – Business Education Forum, 1971
Descriptors: Business Education, Consumer Education, Economics, General Education
Zjawin, Dorothy; And Others – Instructor, 1981
Tips for helping children develop skills in reading directories, timetables, maps, signs, newspapers, credit forms, and consumer information. (SJL)
Descriptors: Consumer Education, Elementary Education, Functional Reading, Newspapers
Hisgen, Jon W. – Health Education (Washington D.C.), 1979
This junior high school health teacher pulls a hoax on his students in order to illustrate the importance of independent thinking in the consumer world. (LH)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Consumer Education, Decision Making, Health Education
McKitrick, Max O. – Business Education World, 1975
Descriptors: Business Education, Case Studies, Class Activities, Consumer Education
Download full textAnderson, C. Raymond – 1970
A social simulation game, Consumer, was used to study the effectiveness of simulation in teaching facts about: (1) installment buying; (2) how to compare available sources of credit; and (3) how to recognize the best credit contract. The entire twelfth grade at one high school participated in the study. Ten class sections were assigned to…
Descriptors: Behavior, Behavior Change, Consumer Education, High School Students
Peer reviewedLazes, Peter M.; Snyder, David – Journal of Biocommunication, 1977
Discusses the four-year-old Health Education Project (HEP) established at the College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark. Notes the use of bilingual, community-oriented videotapes as teaching tools to inform consumers about critical health care information and explores the use of these tapes with health education discussion groups.…
Descriptors: Community Health Services, Consumer Education, Educational Media, Health Education
Peer reviewedBower, Hayden M. – Social Studies Review, 1974
The teaching procedures and class activities used in a consumer economics and law course at Taft High School, Los Angeles, California, are briefly discussed. The relevance of consumer education is commented on. A bibliography of resource materials is provided. (RM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Consumer Economics, Consumer Education, Legal Education
Schurr, Sandra – Teacher, 1974
Author suggests several student-centered activities using toys to introduce children to consumerism. (GB)
Descriptors: Consumer Economics, Consumer Education, Consumer Science, Elementary School Teachers
Hopkins, Charles R.; Kim, Paul Y. – Indiana Social Studies Quarterly, 1972
Selected methods are discussed (simulation, games, role playing, discussion) which are aimed at stimulating student participation in economics classes. (JB)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Consumer Education, Economics Education, Educational Strategies
Kohl, Herb – Teacher, 1980
Presented is a chart which helps to explain inflation to intermediate grade students. It dramatizes the cumulative effect of inflation over six years, and helps to introduce the topic of self-sufficiency, which can help alleviate the problem of inflation. (KC)
Descriptors: Consumer Economics, Consumer Education, Inflation (Economics), Intermediate Grades
Flowers, Toni – Teacher, 1979
In an effort to teach children the value of money, tokens are made out of bottle caps and are painted different colors which denote different dollar values. Children can earn and spend "money" in a variety of ways and soon learn to budget their supply. (KC)
Descriptors: Budgeting, Consumer Education, Learning Activities, Money Management
