Lesson Plans and Activities
Lesson Plans - Topic: Fair trade
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Consumer Decision Clothing
Consumer Decision Clothing 1c.doc
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Consumer Decision Making : Making Choices
Consumer Decisions Making Choices 1a.doc
Size: 126 K
This lesson starts by examining how we make choices and then looks broadly at how changes in the way we consume mean we have become global consumers, with goods arriving from across the world. The activities are designed to raise pupils' awareness of how even simple consumer decisions can impact on others, by providing an introduction to the concept of fair trade.
This lesson can lead into more detailed exploration of fair trade issues using the contexts of clothing or toys; efficient use of resources using the context of energy consumption and the true cost of transporting goods across the globe by looking at food and food miles. See lessons 1b, 1c, 1d and 1e.
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Consumer Decisions: Global Food
Consumer Decisions Global Food 1b.doc
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These activities will help pupils understand the consequences of their food choices in the context of the world food market. It looks at where foods come from, how food reaches our plates and the potential impact of our food choices on the individual consumer, people in other countries and the environment.
These activities link from 'Consumer Decisions – Making Choices' by offering more focussed extension activities
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Food Choices
Food Choices.doc
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This series of activities are designed to extend pupils thinking around food choices, opportunities are provided to follow two different routes - how the consequences of our choices might impact either on our own health, or how the consequences of our choices might impact on other people and the environment.
These activities can be linked in with 'Being a Healthy Consumer – Food Choice' and would offer further extension activities for 'Consumer Decisions – making choices' and 'Consumer Decisions – the global food market'
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Life in The Global Village and The Global Fashion Industry
Global fashion show.doc
Size: 89 K
This unit of activities is designed for Key Stage 3 pupils. It invites them to explore those aspects of globalisation that affect them and allow them to consider some of the contrasts in development, which exist globally.
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These activities will help pupils understand the wider consequences of the clothes they choose to buy. Where clothes come from, how they are produced and by whom, and what the potential impact of this is on the individual consumer, others in the world and their environment.