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Some school teach ecomomics as part of a commercial program rather than a social science.

Year 9

Eco 31

Entry Requirements: Nil

Cost: Nil

Purpose: To introduce students to the basic economic ideas and skills which will help them manage their personal limited means.

Learning Outcomes: By the end of this module students should be able to:

• Investigate money as a means of exchange.
• Explore some of the values leading to consumer choice.
• Identify the different ways that consumers obtain an income.
• Process and interpret income data.

Content: Exchange and money. Choice, scarcity and values. Sources of income. Limits and influences on income.

Year 10

Eco 41: The Clever Consumer

Entry Requirements: Nil

Cost: Nil

Purpose: lo become confident in their ability to make informed consumer decisions.

Learning Outcomes: By the end of this module students should be able to:

• Proccss and interpret influences that affect consumer demand.
• Understand that consumers have legal protection in the market place.
• Illustrate ways of avoiding personal financial loss
• Investigate the methods and consequences of spending ones imcome.
• Determine what is avaialble and necessary to make appropriate economic decissions

Content: Demand. Wise buying. Legal protection. Insurance.

Eco 42: Minding Yoyr Money

Entry Requirements: Eco 41

Cost: Nil

Puurpose: To become skilled in the planning and management of their personal finances.

Learning Outcomes: By the end of this module students should he able to:

• Investigate the consequences of spending, saving and borrowing one's own income.
• Apply the skills of decision making to explore individual choices of career and money nanangement.
• Identify and explain common methods of credit buying.

Content: Budgeting. Spending, saving, borrowing. Buying on credit. Flatting. Career choices.

Eco 43: Enterprise and Profit

Entry Requirements: Eco 42

Cost: Nil

Puurpose: To allow students to participate effectivel in their daily lives as consumers and workers by understanding and experiencing the production process.

Learning Outcomes: By the end of this module students should be able to:

• Understand how consumers and producers participate in production.
  
  
  

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