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| Grade 8
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| Family and Consumer Sciences, Approved 2005
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| Links (click to open) | Description |
| Health and Safety |
This two- to three-day lesson from the Consumer's Union helps students in grades 6-12 become aware of lifestyle and purchasing decisions that impact health and safety. Students will learn that health and safety information is constantly changing, that it is important to stay up-to-date, and where they can go for up-to-date and reliable information. The lesson also enables students to evaluate sources of health and nutrition information, shop for products and services that impact health and safety, explore how health care and fitness services are marketed and sold, plan meals and purchase food products to meet the body's nutritional requirements, and build skill at using food label information. (SDFSCA Approved Activity A.ii - Activities that promote a sense of individual responsibility.)
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Batch 3
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| Purchasing Products |
This two- to three-day lesson from the Consumer's Union helps students in grades 6-12 learn how to compare and evaluate products based on ratings and other established criteria, understand consumer rights and responsibilities, develop a healthy skepticism toward product and advertising claims, and explore social, health, safety, and environmental consequences of product choices. (SDFSCA Approved Activity A.ii - Activities that promote a sense of individual responsibility.)
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Batch 3
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| Rating Food Products |
This two- to three-day lesson from the Consumer's Union helps students in grades 6-12 learn how to identify criteria for judging food products, compare and evaluate food products through sensory means and by reading label information and claims, calculate and use unit price and price per serving, and explore the government's responsibility in regulating food advertising, labeling, safety, and quality. (SDFSCA Approved Activity A.ii - Activities that promote a sense of individual responsibility.)
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Batch 3
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| Shopping for Services |
This two- to three-day lesson from the Consumer's Union helps students in grades 6-12 learn how to identify different kinds of services, determine advantages and disadvantages of using different services, learn how to find and interpret information about services, analyze advertisements for services, evaluate the importance of comparative shopping for services, and explore the economics of services, rights and responsibilities of consumers in seeking services, and ways of seeking redress for unsatisfactory services. (SDFSCA Approved Activity A.ii - Activities that promote a sense of individual responsibility.)
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Batch 3
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Resources
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6 available
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