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Download full textEmily Hall Tremaine Foundation, Inc., Hartford, CT. – 1994
This competency-based secondary learning guide on making consumer choices is part of a series that are adaptations of guides developed for adult consumer and homemaking education programs. The guides provide students with experiences that help them learn to do the following: make decisions; use creative approaches to solve problems; establish…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Consumer Education, Consumer Science, Course Content
Racino, Julie Ann – 1995
This annotated bibliography provides approximately 100 summaries and evaluations of documents, published from 1979 to 1995, on personal assistance services (PAS) for individuals with disabilities. Studies and articles were selected for inclusion based upon their capacity to inform the development of PAS models, including conceptual, policy, and…
Descriptors: Adults, Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Attendants, Caregivers
Kluckman, Delores – 1996
This document describes a project conducted in South Dakota to develop and validate competency task lists in the area of consumer resource management. During the project, the following activities took place: literature on validation was reviewed; an outline was structured for content based on current references by a panel of two teachers and two…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives, Clothing Instruction, Competence
Federal/Provincial Consumer Education and Plain Language Task Force (Canada). – 1991
Project Real World, a self-contained, activity-based Canadian consumer science program, provides students with systematic instruction in economic living skills. It gives students in grades 10-12 an orientation to the economic realities and opportunities in society. The program helps students understand the marketplace; manage resources; apply…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Citizenship Responsibility, Consumer Economics, Consumer Education
Brower, Lynne – 1990
An instructional guide for English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers is presented in this volume. The 18-week program contains the following modules, each of which includes sections on civics and structure: human relations; general information; housing; consumer education (money, banking, and shopping modules); occupations; health (two modules…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Citizenship Education, Civics, Community Colleges
Maxey, Phyllis F.; And Others – 1983
One of a series of units on business issues designed for secondary school students, this packet examines the responsibilities of the lender and consumer in the credit business. Teacher and student materials are provided in separate sections. The teacher's guide presents five detailed lesson plans, each focusing on a credit case study; discussion…
Descriptors: Business, Business Responsibility, Case Studies, Consumer Education
Greystone Psychiatric Hospital, NJ. – 1983
A joint collaborative effort between Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital and the Parsippany Adult School had as its objective the facilitation of the deinstitutionalization and the assumption of the normal societal role of workers for emotionally disabled citizens. This was to be accomplished through the development, delivery, and refinement of a…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Consumer Education, Daily Living Skills, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled)
Horwich, George; And Others – 1983
In this six part handbook, secondary school teachers and students are provided with information and concepts needed to analyze the energy situation from an economic perspective. Part 1 begins with an economic analysis of the U.S. energy situation. It includes charts, graphs, and readings on energy use before 1970, consequences of oil supply…
Descriptors: Conservation Education, Consumer Education, Content Area Reading, Costs
Goebel, Karen P., Ed. – 1983
These proceedings contain the texts of the papers presented at a conference on consumer interests. Addressed in the first series of concurrent sessions are the following topics: consumers' new economic positions, consumers' choices with respect to price and quality trade-offs, time value in consumption decisions, and consumer information issues.…
Descriptors: Advertising, Basic Business Education, Consumer Economics, Consumer Education
Morris, Vivian Gunn; Walton, Jocelyn C. – 1987
This guide is intended to assist home economics teachers in designing lessons and activities that will reinforce mathematics skills in consumer and homemaking education programs. Included in the guide are a total of 55 mini-lessons on the following areas of home economics: child development; family relationships; foods and nutrition; consumer…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives, Child Development, Clothing Instruction
Morris, Vivian Gunn; DiObilda, Nicholas – 1987
This guide is intended to assist home economics teachers in designing lessons and activities that will reinforce reading skills in consumer and homemaking education programs. Included in the guide are a total of 60 mini-lessons on the following areas of home economics: child development; family relationships; foods and nutrition; consumer…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives, Child Development, Clothing Instruction
Morris, Vivian Gunn; Conroy, Kathleen – 1987
This guide is intended to assist home economics teachers in designing lessons and activities that will reinforce writing skills in consumer and homemaking education programs. Included in the guide are a total of 59 mini-lessons on the following areas of home economics: child development; family relationships; foods and nutrition; consumer…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives, Child Development, Clothing Instruction
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Div. of Curriculum and Instruction. – 1986
This document describes one of the second-year courses meeting the two-year mathematics high school requirement satisfying the New York Regents Action Plan. This handbook is designed to meet the needs of teachers who will be teaching the Consumer Mathematics course. The handbook, for use with staff development programs, has five main sections: (1)…
Descriptors: Calculators, Classroom Techniques, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education
Cincinnati Public Schools, OH. – 1980
This publication was developed by the Cincinnati (Ohio) Public Schools for use as a resource in adult basic education classes. It presents, in simple format, the basic legal rights of citizens of the United States and points out legal problem areas that average adults may encounter in daily life. The book is organized into nine parts containing 2…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Consumer Economics, Consumer Education, Consumer Protection
Maley, Donald, Ed.; Starkweather, Kendall N., Ed. – 1982
This yearbook consists of 14 articles dealing with the contributions of industrial arts to selected areas of education. Included among the articles presented are the following: "Industrial Arts and Its Contribution to the Education of the Elementary School Child," by Michael J. Williams; "Industrial Arts and Its Contribution in Assisting the…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Career Education, Consumer Education, Decision Making
