Lesson Packet
Grades 9-12
Personal Consumption unit
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Thematic unit for the high school classroom covers issues around personal consumption and consumerism.
Includes teaching materials on ecological footprints, needs and wants, the impacts of consumer decisions, and making sustainable choices.
Features of This Resource
- Unit includes 2 lesson plans, 1 case study reading, and 1 background reading.
- Online ecological footprint quiz.
- Structure for creating and testing strategies to reducing ecological footprints.
Unit Lesson Plans & Readings
The following are included with the purchase of the unit:
Lesson Plans
Needs vs. Wants in a Finite World
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Students discuss the varying levels of human needs and then evaluate their own needs and wants and the resources required...
Watch Your Step!
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Students take an online ecological footprint quiz to determine their resource use and test how changes to their daily actions...
Readings
An All-Consuming Challenge
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What is an ecological footprint and what are the impacts of using so much stuff? How do personal consumption decisions
Cheap Threads, Costly Impacts: The Price of Fast Fashion
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Personal consumption case study reading: Examine how fast fashion (like H&M, Zara, Shein, etc.) impacts the environment and economy.
Lesson Plans
Needs vs. Wants in a Finite World
- Students discuss the varying levels of human needs and then evaluate their own needs and wants and the resources required...Watch Your Step!
- Students take an online ecological footprint quiz to determine their resource use and test how changes to their daily actions...Readings
An All-Consuming Challenge
- What is an ecological footprint and what are the impacts of using so much stuff? How do personal consumption decisionsCheap Threads, Costly Impacts: The Price of Fast Fashion
- Personal consumption case study reading: Examine how fast fashion (like H&M, Zara, Shein, etc.) impacts the environment and economy.How Do I Get This Lesson Packet?
This lesson packet can be purchased as an individual packet or as part of a full curriculum. Click the button below to purchase the individual lesson packet or see Additional Purchase Options for full curriculum options. Purchase Individual Lesson Packet
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