Learning About Trade and Fair Trade
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Development Education Centre South Yorkshire Learning about trade and fair trade Key SOCIAL/TRADE JUSTICE RIGHTS ACTIONS OF CITIZENS concepts: I know that some of the foods I eat and I can tell the difference between needs and I can look at a food or clothing label to find out clothes I wear come from different countries wants. where it was made/grown. 2 far away. Learning First Steps to Rights, P. Hand, Unicef UK The world came to my place today, J. Readman and L. KS outcomes − The World Came to my Place Today, J. (available to order on their website) Honor Roberts, and book review, GA and Readman and L. Honor Roberts, and book opportunities Wants and needs cards, Unicef UK (available to Making a Meal of It (Lesson 5: Unpacking the KS1 review, GA order on their website) supermarket bag), Oxfam Find Your Way Through Trade, Oxfam I know how some of the foods or materials I understand that basic needs are also rights I understand that as global citizens, we are are grown, what happens to them, how they that every human being should have, and that connected to others locally and globally. Learning reach us, and who is involved. these rights have been agreed by nearly all the Embedding Fairtrade into the curriculum (Lesson plan outcomes countries in the world. and The Tale of the Orange Juice, NICCY 2: String connections), DEC Cumbria with Fairtrade KS2 UN Convention of the Rights of the Child, poster Wales opportunities Pa pa paaa, Comic Relief in child-friendly language, Unicef UK (available to Find Your Way Through Trade, Oxfam order on their website) I understand that the money we pay for food I understand that other people have a I understand that what I choose to buy can affect or clothing will be split to pay the different responsibility to make sure that I have my people across the world. people involved in growing and making it. rights and that I have a responsibility to help The Clothes Line, Oxfam make sure that other people have their rights. Banana Split Game, CAFOD Learning Go Bananas, Oxfam Rights and Responsibilities in the Classroom, Our KS3 outcomes Tea production in Kenya, DECSY – and World, Our Rights, Amnesty International How did trade get global?, RGS with IBG opportunities KS2 GLP © Crown Copyright Funded by the UK government Development Education Centre South Yorkshire I know that many farmers in countries in I can understand that the world is a global I know that the Fairtrade scheme is one way of Africa, Asia, Latin America and the community and that, as global citizens, all its paying farmers and producers a fairer wage. Caribbean are not paid enough to be able to people have rights and responsibilities. I can give some advantages and disadvantages of look after themselves or their families. I understand that consumers, employers and being a grower/maker or buyer of Fairtrade I can tell the difference between good and employees, locally and globally, have rights products. I can make my own decision whether or bad working conditions, and if workers’ and responsibilities. not to buy and tell others about Fairtrade goods. rights are respected. Right Here, Right Now, Amnesty International I know that by working together, our voices are The Chocolate Trade Game, Christian Aid stronger and we can be more effective. (continued) I know that, sometimes, children have to work instead of getting a right to an education. Global trade – investigating Fairtrade, RGS with IBG KS3 KS3 – I know that the price of foods and materials The Paper Bag Game, Christian Aid The Chocolate Trade Game, Christian Aid often does not cover the real cost of growing I understand that advertising can affect me but I KS2 and making them. can still make my own choice about what to buy − Understanding Cotton, Fairtrade Wales thinking about my needs and wants, the real cost Trading Trainers Game, CAFOD of growing/making the item, and the alternatives. Looking Behind the Logo, Oxfam Wake up and Smell the Coffee, CAFOD I know that sometimes foods or materials are I understand that rules, laws or standards can I am aware of some of the different standards that grown or made in ways that are damaging to help to protect people’s rights and the products can meet. I can identify their logos (e.g. Learning outcomes the environment. environment. the Fairtrade standard and mark) and understand and what they mean. KS3 Timber Deforestation role play, DECSY, ‘SEAL The Rule of Law, Bingham Centre for The Rule of opportunities and the Global Dimension’ (you will need to Law (you will need to create a free account in Why Bother… buying Fairtrade?, My Learning create a free account first) order to have access to the resources) I know that there are different ways we can act to call for the rules about trade to be changed. I know that the rules about trading across I understand that, as a global citizen, I have a Learning the world are not fair for everyone and often responsibility to call for, agree and follow a set Get Global, Oxfam outcomes work against countries in Africa, Asia, Latin of rules that are fair for everyone in my group, and America and the Caribbean. my classroom, my community and my world. opportunities KS3−KS4 The Trading Game, Christian Aid Right Here, Right Now, Amnesty International GLP © Crown Copyright Funded by the UK government .