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Global Community: T-Shirt Activity

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Examine fair trade and the impacts it has on the global community. Kids consider how t-shirts are made, where they come from, and how fair trade works. They design t-shirts that describe the affects of fair trade on various populations around the globe. After an economics website is explored, they investigate where common household items come from and how they are made.

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global citizenship, fair trade, globalization, the global economy

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fair trade, global economy, globalization, global community, outsourcing jobs, social studies
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6th - 9th
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Social Studies & History
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