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View full descriptionStrand: Teaching and Learning
Suggestions for use: Reference for teachers
A 2 page printable covering the keywords on resources, income and expenditure, the personal financial lifecycle and household budgets
View full descriptionStrand: 1. Personal Finance
Strand unit: 01. Resources, needs and wants
Suggestions for use: Revision tool
Key Skills: Managing Information and Thinking Literacy
Strand: 1. Personal Finance
Strand unit: 02. Income,Expenditure,managing fin resources
Suggestions for use: Revision and Assessment Tool
Key Skills: Managing Information and Thinking Literacy
Strand: 1. Personal Finance
Strand unit: 03. Personal Financial Lifecycle
Suggestions for use: Revision and Assessment Tool
Key Skills: Managing Information and Thinking Literacy
Strand: 1. Personal Finance
Strand unit: 12. Budgets
Suggestions for use: Revision and Assessment Tool
Key Skills: Managing Information and Thinking Literacy
This is a Simpsons themed question and is good for introducing the household budget. Students work through income and then separately work through expenditure in this question. No Net Cash, Opening or Closing Cash to calculate.
View full descriptionStrand: 1. Personal Finance
Strand unit: 02. Income,Expenditure,managing fin resources
Suggestions for use: This is a great question to introduce the household budget with. It looks at income and expenditure separately and doesn't require students to complete net cash, opening and closing cash..
Key Skills: Managing Information and Thinking Literacy Numeracy
Strand: 2. Responsible Family Living
Strand unit: 13. A Budget for Independent Living
PPt presention for Learning Outcome 3.4
View full descriptionStrand: 3. Our Economy
Strand unit: 04. Government Revenue & Expenditure
Flanders Family Themed Household Budget Question. This worksheet contains a household budget question with several follow up questions afterwards.
View full descriptionStrand: 1. Personal Finance
Strand unit: 02. Income,Expenditure,managing fin resources
Suggestions for use: This is a good worksheet for assessing student understanding about how to prepare a household budget and also to analyse a household budget.
Key Skills: Managing Information and Thinking Literacy Numeracy Managing Myself
One-page worksheet covering insurance that will enable students to reflect or research the principles of insurance, contrast insurance with assurance, examine types of motor and house insurance. Space is provided for students to record their understanding of the key terms.
View full descriptionStrand: 1. Personal Finance
Strand unit: 06. Insurance
Suggestions for use: Used by students when the topic of insurance has been covered. Used as a revision/study aid.
Strand: 4. Managing 2
Strand unit: 1. Household & Business Manager
Suggestions for use: One-page worksheet covering insurance that will enable students to reflect on the topic of insurance and examine the key terms. Space is provided for students to record their understanding.
Resource pack to support the teaching of Business Studies through a global justice or development education (DE) lens. It connects DE into the main strands of the subject and specifies activities for various learning outcomes. For each of the main learning outcomes there is 'Thinking about Global Goals' section, referencing the UN Global Goals for Sustainable Development.
View full descriptionStrand: 1. Personal Finance
Strand unit: 01. Resources, needs and wants
Suggestions for use: Very specific guidelines on pages 8-9. Connects too with UN Global Goal 12
Key Skills: Managing Information and Thinking Literacy
Strand: 1. Personal Finance
Strand unit: 09. Impact of Consumer Behaviour
Suggestions for use: Specific guidelines on pages 10-11. Connects with UN Global Goal 12.
Key Skills: Managing Information and Thinking Literacy
Strand: 1. Personal Finance
Strand unit: 13. Income & Expenditure Data - Household A/C
Suggestions for use: Specific guidelines on pages 12-13. Connects with UN Global Goal 17.
Strand: 2. Enterprise
Strand unit: 02. Entrepreneurs:Skills/Characteristics/Role
Suggestions for use: Specific Guidelines on pages 14-15. Connects with Global Goal 4.
Key Skills: Managing Information and Thinking Literacy
Strand: 2. Enterprise
Strand unit: 05. Impacts of an Organisation on a Community
Suggestions for use: Specific guidelines on pages 16-17. Connects with UN Global Goal 8.
Key Skills: Managing Information and Thinking Literacy
Strand: 2. Enterprise
Strand unit: 09. Business Plan
Suggestions for use: Specific guidelines on pages 18-19. Connects with UN Global Goal 9.
Strand: 3. Our Economy
Strand unit: 01. Scarcity of Economic Resources & Choices
Suggestions for use: Specific guidelines on pages 20-21. Connects with UN Global Goals 6,7,8.
Key Skills: Managing Information and Thinking Literacy
Strand: 3. Our Economy
Strand unit: 06. Economic Growth & Sustainable Development
Suggestions for use: Specific guidelines on pages 22-23. Connects with UN Global Goal 13.
Key Skills: Managing Information and Thinking Literacy
Strand: 3. Our Economy
Strand unit: 11. Benefits &Costs of a Gvt. Economic Policy
Suggestions for use: Specific guidelines on pages 24-25. Connects with UN Global Goal 17.
Superb website created by MABS and the St. John of God Carmona Services. This website contains lots of resources, videos, lesson plans and activities in the area of money.
View full descriptionStrand: 1. Personal Finance
Strand unit: 02. Income,Expenditure,managing fin resources
Suggestions for use: This is a great website tool which can be used to drive lessons, download resources and play videos. This can be used in class or as a homework task/project.
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