This teacher resource manual and student activities economics education unit provides students with the opportunity to use economic content and related skills as they learn about the U.S. economic system and its relationship to the world economy. The lessons link to economic content and other subject areas traditionally taught in grades 5, 6, and…

This book highlights and examines basic economic concepts as they relate to consumer, business, social, and personal choices. Students are shown connections between their classroom learning and their real-world experiences in budgeting, career planning, credit management, and housing. The set of 15 lessons include: (1) "Decision Making: Scarcity,…

Consumer protection should be a major objective in high school business law classes. Suggested units are the nature of law, sources of legal assistance, sales contracts, use of commercial paper, and rental or ownership of real property. (MS)

Articulate consumer concern for the quality and price of health care is predicted to be a permanent feature of the working environment of health professionals. The American Hospital Association Patient's Bill of Rights is identified and analyzed as an important factor in the consumer revolution. (Author/EA)

Gives some examples of schemes for defrauding consumers and discusses the principles of consumer protection. (GB)

The need for including consumer education couses for grades K-12 in the California social studies curriculum framework is presented in this proposal. Three specific recommendations are listed. (RM)

Emphasis is on the need to improve the forms and methods of instruction continuously, to incorporate persistently scientific principles, to raise the intellectual level of the ideas presented in the classes, and to achieve a maximum of popularity and emotional motivation. (JB)

Consumer education claims center stage in the high school curriculum today as a means of arming ourselves with the only effective weapon against exploitation--information. (Editor)

Describes the role of a supermarket home economist. (SB)

On October 16, 1968, the 90th Congress passed Public Law 90-576 to amend the Vocational Education Act of 1963. The authors of this article, in their positions in the U.S. Office of Education, have been actively involved in planning the implementation of Part F of Title I, entitled "Consumer and Homemaking Education." They present here…

It seems that the U.S. is going to adopt the metric system of measurement. Although certain difficulties are anticipated, Britain has shown that major upheavals are unnecessary. (MF)

The author suggests that educators are not the consumers of educational materials and "raises the case for the learner as consumer through developmental as well as summative evaluation of materials." (Editor/AK)

Provides six examples of ways to individualize instruction in the areas of nutrition and consumer education. (SB)