Students investigate buying purchases in bulk. In this buying in bulk lesson, students consider ways to cut costs and reduce waste in landfills by making bulk purchases.

Students describe how shoe design, manufacturing, retailing, consumer use, and disposal impact environments and societies. They discuss ways to reduce, reuse, or recycle resources in the life-cycle for a shoe product.

Students analyze the packaging process. In this consumer awareness instructional activity, students analyze the process of packaging a potato and identify positive and negative ways of packaging. Students study statistics on an overhead...