Bottled water or tap water - your choice

Students investigate the properties of a product, its price and waste product.  The environmental consequences of the product packaging and transport are considered and related to the impact on the environment. Students learn to evaluate consumer information, consider their rights and responsibilities as consumers, and justify purchase choices.

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Resources key

Year Level

  • 7 - 8

Theme

Understanding money

  • Income and expenditure
  • Goods and services
  • Needs and wants

Consumer education

  • Consumer behaviour
  • Ethical and sustainable consumption
  • Advertising

Personal finance

  • Budgeting
  • Loans and interest rates
  • Debt management

Money management

  • Record keeping

 

Learning area

  • Science
  • Geography
  • Business / Economics

Learning dimension

  • Knowledge and understanding
  • Competence
  • Responsibility and enterprise

Cross-curriculum perspective

  • Sustainability
  • Ethical behaviour

Genre

Teacher resource

  • Unit / module

Student resource

  • Group work

General capability

  • Literacy
  • Numeracy
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Last updated: 01 Nov 2011