Five topic areas in consumer education are provided in this manual developed for use by financial counselors in conducting ten one-hour educational sessions for adult groups. The session titles are the following: (1) The Internal Money World--The Individual, The Family, and Money; (2) Effective Money Management; (3) Effective Credit Management;…

The instructional unit was developed to help grade 2 students become aware of money as a medium of exchange. Learning activities are based on the theme of the economic needs of a family. The major topics covered in the unit are: counting money, earning money, spending money, money substitutes, and financial institutions. Objectives which encourage…

This unit provides methods, materials, and activities for teaching about money in grades 4-6. It is divided into three sections: money and barter; disciplines and responsibilities; and organization and recordkeeping. Each section includes notes to aid the teacher in preparing and presenting the material, pre/post tests, and a series of one-page…

Volume 3 of the six-volume articulated elementary education career guide deals with the economic awareness level of career awareness and aims at developing student economic understanding. The lessons in the volume are divided and color-coded by grade level (primary levels 2 and 3 and intermediate levels 1, 2, and 3 corresponding respectively with…

This document suggests learning activities, teaching methods, objectives, and evaluation measures for a second grade consumer education unit on quarters. The unit, which requires approximately six hours of class time, reinforces basic social studies and mathematics skills including following sequences of numbers, distinguishing left from right,…