Buy Now, Pay Later: Smart Shopping Counts
This colorful, interesting, and easy-to-read book shows how being smart shopper and a wise consumer can promote good health and protect the environment. Suggestions include buying fruits and vegetables, avoiding junk food, buying fresh and locally grown products, minimizing waste, and recycling.
Economic Concepts
- Consumers/Consumption
- Choices
- Decision-Making
- Spending
Grade Levels
- Primary (K-3)
- Intermediate (4-6)
Related Subjects
- Personal Finance
- Environment
Did You Get the Message?
http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm?lesson=EM634&page=teacher
This lesson is a good contrast to the content of Buy Now, Pay Later. Students view commercials and analyze them with a television commercial log. In this lesson students
• Identify advertising techniques used in television commercials that target them.
• Learn how advertisers use incentives in their efforts to influence consumer behavior.
• Analyze the influence of advertising on themselves and their purchases.
• Identify the impact of advertising on changes in demand (taste and preferences).