Consumer Rights & Responsibilities
- Teenagers are a large part of the economy
- Teenagers should think of themselves as consumers
- Employers can look at credit scores
- Understand the process of comparison-shopping
- Learn about your landlord-tenant rights & responsibilities
- Read a contract before entering into an agreement
- Know how to find and/or ask for help
- Learn to avoid being “ripped off”
- Understand your voter rights & responsibilities
- Understand how local and state governments work
- Explain labor & wage laws
- Choose the appropriate agency when seeking consumer information
- Be a “savvy” online shopper
- Know how to resolve consumer complaints
- Understand privacy laws
- Define PII (Personally Identifiable Information) and relate to technology and social media
Health & Safety
- Acquiring and using health insurance
- Establish healthful dietary practices
- Understand how media enhances images to create an alternate reality
- Identify health dangers (ex. tanning)
- Summarize the My Plate program
- Identify concerns and safety issue with OTC medications
- First Aid
- Safe Driving
- Sexual health and contraception
- Household chemicals as personal health and environmental concerns
- Child safety issues
- Water safety
- Safety equipment for biking and sports
- Symptoms of food borne illnesses
- Nutrition basics
- Personal hygiene
- Suicide prevention, depressions and bullying response
- How to research personal health issues on the Internet
- Reading the food nutrition label
- Preparing for a visit with a health care professional
- Binge drinking/smoking dangers
Environment
- Social responsibility for the collective environment
- Using and promoting the use of renewable resources
- Recycling basics-where, what and when
- Preventing the “throw-away” culture
- Climate change
- Conservation of water
- Understanding/reducing your personal carbon footprint
- How to dispose of hazardous materials properly
- Green shopping
- Advantages of hybrid vehicles
- Impact of global economics on the environment
Technology
- Privacy and online social media
- Cell phone costs
- Netiquette
- Cyber bullying
- Evaluate bundled electronic services
- Phishing and friends
- Identify theft through technology
- Communicating through technology
- Buyer’s rights online
- Creating, changing and storing passwords
Personal Finance
- Evaluating the need for and buying insurance
- Payday lending costs
- Federal student loan issues
- Filing income tax return
- Budgeting
- Cost of wants
- Paying for college
- Renting the first apartment
- Buying and insuring a car
- Online (paperless) banking