Smart Consumer: Contracts Explained | NSW St5

What actually makes an agreement binding? Students learn offer, acceptance and consideration, cooling-off periods, and unfair contract terms, applied to a real gym membership and buy-now-pay-later scenario. Includes retrieval practice, a graphic organiser, key terms, a scaffolded I do/we do/you do task, an exam-style extended response, a plenary, and a full teacher guide with answers.

Written to the NSW Commerce 7–10 Syllabus (2024), Stage 5, The consumer and financial environment (core). Outcome codes and content points are not printed in the resource itself; check these against your own syllabus download before use in formal programming.

This lesson is part of the 10-lesson Smart Consumer unit: L1 What rights do you actually have as a consumer? (free) · L2 How do we make a smart purchasing decision? · L3 What is a contract, and when does it bind you? · L4 How does credit actually work? · L5 How do we build a budget that works? · L6 Why does superannuation matter at 16? · L7 How do we spot and avoid a scam? · L8 What insurance do we actually need? · L9 How does buying online change your rights? · L10 How do we judge whether a big financial decision was a good one?

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