Curated OER
How Do Our Attitudes Affect Waste?
Students conduct a survey of society's typical purchasing practices to determine the influence of packaging on consumer choices and to determine if consumers consider waste disposal and recycling when making purchasing decisions.
Curated OER
Wise Shoppers
Learners complete several activities to learn about currency and the functions of money. In this money functions lesson, students complete activities to learn what are the functions of money. Learners calculate item prices with...
Curated OER
Healthy Snacks. Healthy Packaging
Fourth graders research how to select the most cost-effective snacks. In this consumer practices lesson, 4th graders compare packaging labels and come to conclusions on how cost effective the product is. Students discuss their findings.
Curated OER
The World We Live In
Students are introduced to the many considerations of making advantageous consumer purchases. They know that making these good choices requires attention to not only the purchase price but the financing, warranties, energy usage and more.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Clipping Coupons
Explore this website to find out how and why consumers make choices on what products to buy. Learn how producers entice consumers into buying their products. This is a very informative lesson plan.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Community Helpers at Your Service
Show elementary students the correlation between goods and services and consumers. "You will draw a picture of a community helper, and perhaps write some sentences about him or her, to show or tell how that helper provides a Service."
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Incentives Influence Us
Find out more about the concept of incentives in our economy through this lesson plan. "You will identify incentives used at home and school."