Consumer Economics
Competency Areas 1.1, 1.2
1.1     Use weights, measures, measurements scales, and money
1.1.1  Interpret recipes
         
GCFLearnFree.org
          click on "Measure, Mix, and Bake Ingredients"
         
Let's Talk
          "What Are We Cooking?"
1.1.3  Interpret maps and graphs
         
GCFLearnFree.org
          click on "Map Navigation", or  "Subway Map"
         
Lesson Plans for Directions
          Click on "Getting Simple Directions"
         
Family Literacy Lesson Plans
          click on Lesson 3 "Health Care - A Well Child Visit"
         
Multi-Cultural Educational Services
          click on "Reading a Map"
         
North Carolina Curriculum Guide
          "Directions"
         
North Carolina Curriculum Guide
          "Signs and Landmarks"
         
Winona ABE
          Map Skills
1.1.4  Select, compute, or interpret appropriate standard measurement for length, width, perimeter, area, volume, height or weight
         
Family Literacy Lesson Plans
          click on Lesson 3 "Health Care - A Well Child Visit"
         
Teacher's.net
          "Perimeter"
1.1.6  Count, convert, and use coins and currency, and recognize symbols
         
California Literacy's PEACE Curriculum
          Click on 5 - Consumer Education.pdf
         
CLESE - Bright Ideas Curriculum
          click on "Numbers"
         
GCFLearnFree.org
          click on "Cash Back"
         
Financial Resources and Economic Education
          click on free_unit_1.pdf
         
North Carolina Curriculum Guide
          "Currency"
         
Reading For Life
          click on "Counting Change"
         
Reading For Life
          click on "Making Change"
         
Reading For Life
          click on "Identifying Money"
         
Tennessee Adult ESOL Curriculum Resource Book
          go to page 55 "Money"
1.1.9  Interpret clothing and pattern sizes and use height and weight tables
         
North Carolina Curriculum Guide
          "The Department Store"

1.2     Apply principles of comparison-shopping in the selection of goods and services
1.2.1  Interpret advertisements, labels, charts, and price tags in selecting goods and services
         
Reading For Life
          click on "Identifying Price"
         
The Internet TESL Journal
          click on Unit 2
1.2.2  Apply principles of comparison-shopping in the selection of goods and services
         
Financial Resources and Economic Education
          click on free_unit_5.pdf
         
Reading For Life
          click on "Comparison Shopping"

1.2.3  Compute discount
s
         
California Literacy's PEACE Curriculum
          Click on 5 - Consumer Information.pdf
1.2.4  Compute unit pricing
         
North Carolina Curriculum Guide
          "The Grocery Store"
1.2.5  Interpret letters, articles and information about consumer-related topics
         
North Carolina Curriculum Guide
          "Reading Critically: Ads and Unsolicited Mail