This 4-H Youth Development Curriculum is designed to teach basic consumer
education skills and concentrate on the life skills of decision making; managing
resources; and acquiring, analyzing, and using information. Consumer Savvy
will help youth become informed and responsible consumers in today’s
dynamic marketplace. This curriculum teaches about goods and services, needs
and wants, using goals in consumer decision-making, exchange or barter, time
value of money, gathering information, influences on decisions, writing a complaint
letter, evaluating information on the internet and understanding the global
economy. Youth can complete the activities in the three youth guides independently.
The Helper’s Guide contains group icebreakers, activities and meeting
suggestions. Interactive Web-based activities are available to reinforce the
concepts taught in the curriculum.
The 4-H Consumer
Savvy website has information that is available to download. Youth
can also play the 4HCCS Consumer Savvy e-learning game called “Cyber
Savvy Arcade.”
Consumer Savvy may be ordered online at http://www.n4hccs.org.
For more information, contact Rebecca J. Travnichek at TravnichekR@missouri.edu.
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Last update:
November 8, 2005