Year 7 Business & Economics – Guidance

I am a consumer

We all make choices as consumers every day, and those choices affect our lives and the economy.

Learning intention

Understand what a consumer is and recognise consumer choices in everyday life.

Success criteria

• Define ‘consumer’.
• Identify consumer choices I make daily.
• Explain why people make different choices.

Lesson flow (80 minutes)

1. Starter (5): List 5 things you used/bought today.
2. Teach (10): Consumer = person who buys/uses goods and services.
3. Activity (20): Sort examples (school/home/sport/online consumption).
4. Discussion (10): Why do people choose different options?
5. Workbook (25): Complete prompts.
6. Exit Ticket (5).
7. Optional reflection (5).

Resources

• Teacher will provide links. — PPT/worksheet will be linked here (Compass/OneDrive).

Workbook prompts

1. Write your own definition of consumer (1 sentence).
2. List 3 goods and 3 services you used in the last 24 hours.
3. Circle your top 3 reasons: price / convenience / quality / friends / advertising / habit.
4. Explain one choice you made in 2–3 sentences (what you chose and why).

Exit Ticket

1. Define consumer.
2. Give one example of a consumer choice and one reason for it.