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Creating a Consumer-Awareness Information Campaign
Students work across grade levels to research and design a community awareness campaign on the benefits of purchasing fair trade chocolate. They develop print advertisements, conduct research, write letters, make posters and prepare oral...
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Fair Trade: Chocolate Can Be Good For You
Students discover the process of chocolate production. They read stories from boys in Ghana and Brazil who work on cocoa plantations. They illustrate the principles of fair trade.
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How Do You Interest Others in Fair Trade Chocolate?
Students design a presentation intended to interest others in Fair Trade certified chocolate. They research Comic Relief's similar competition and perform their presentation for the class.
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Class: What's Fair Game
Fifth graders study fair trade by role-playing a cocoa bean farming situation. In this fair trade lesson, 5th graders role-play as cocoa bean farmers and buyers to learn about fair trade. Students complete a worksheet to assess their...
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A Day in the Life
Students write an essay. In this comparison lesson plan, students read about a child's typical day on a fair trade cocoa farm in the Dominican Republic. Students write about a typical morning of a child in the US and make comparisons.
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What Does Your School Think of Fair Trade?
Students design and conduct a survey in order to assess the local opinion and knowledge regarding Fair Trade chocolate. They use the results to design a Fair Trade promotion at school.
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How Much Does It Cost to Live in Ghana? What Difference Does Fair Trade Really Make?
Third graders analyze the cost of living in Ghana. They discover the importance of fair trade in the country. They solve problems related to the cocoa farmers in the region as well.
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Pa Pa Paa Quiz - Chocolate and Fair Trade
Students complete an individual quiz as a culmination of study about cocoa farmers, chocolate production and Fair Trade. They compete in teams for prizes in a quiz board game.
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Understanding Fair Trade: Fair Trade Mural
Students discuss murals painted by Diego Rivera and other political muralists and work in a small group to create a mural showing the benefit of Fair Trade relationships to chocolate farmers. Students decide what they want to...
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Trace the Chocolate Journey
Students trace the journey of chocolate from bean to bar. They examine photos and match captions with activities to sequence the production of chocolate. Based on the photos, students discuss life on a Ghanian cocoa farm and compare it...
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Fair Chocolate?
Students discover how chocolate is traded fairly. They examine ethical shopping and their power as a consumer to buy goods from the countries we want to. They discover where to buy fair trade products.
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The Dark Side of Chocolate
Students learn just what goes into a chocolate bar. In this chocolate lesson, students research cacao beans and the nations that produce them. Students also examine chocolate recipes.
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Fair-trade Maze
In this fair-trade worksheet, students connect Lola to her favorite fair-trade treat, a chocolate bar. The maze is in the shape of a circle.
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Make A Rap
Fifth graders create their own rap promoting chocolate and free trade. They use poetry and music to create their advertisement. They should show their understanding of fair trade.
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The Trading Game
Pupils participate in a game in which they trade chocoloate. In groups, they discover the difficulties in trading fairly in the chocoloate business. They highlight the benefits of fair trade.
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How Much Does It Cost to Live in Ghana?
Students explore the effects that Fair Trade can have on the poverty among cocoa farmers. They identify the benefits of joining cooperatives for the farmers and complete a worksheet with their findings.
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I Grow, You Buy
Fourth graders write letters to Ghanaian students comparing their lives to their own. They discover the chocolate farmers role in the chocolate chain and discover how their choices affect others around the world.
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What's It Like to Live in Mim?
Students use photos and accounts of daily life in Mim to explore what life is like for adults and students involved with cocoa farming. They compare Mim with their own home towns or villages.
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Fourth graders research and write an author report on Roald Dahl, including books written by him, birthplace, family life, and other information on his writing. Students read aloud chapters in the book. Students create a newspaper...
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Compare the Lives of Ordinary Farmers and Members of Kuapa Kokoo
Third graders examine the lives of farmers and members of the Kuapa Kokoo tribe. They analyze the importance of chocolate in their society and discover the importance of fair trade and co-operatives.
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What's In Your Grocery Bag?
Learners explore the global implications of consumer decisions when purchasing groceries. They examine labels of food products and discuss the wording on the labels. They calculate food miles of how far each ingredient in foods has...
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How to Say “I Ruff You”
Who says you need a human to be your valentine on Valentine's Day? Give your dog-loving readers an inspiring perspective on how a sister givdes her brother a valentine from the family dog. They then answer 10 questions thatd involve...
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Feudalism
Students have tournaments in teams after learning information about The Middle Ages. In this Middle Ages lesson plan, students learn that tournaments are mock battles, but that they will have these battles by answering questions in teams...