Saturday is World Fair Trade Day. To celebrate, Equal Exchange is offering their full Fair Trade Curriculum,Win Win Solutions: An Introduction to Fair Trade and Cooperative Economics,(downloadable online) for free.
There is an introductory section and four units:
Unit 2: Understanding Fair Trade
Unit 3: Understanding Cooperatives
Equal Exchange writes that the program,
offers 124 pages of interactive classroom activities. Composed of four units, the curriculum raises students’ awareness of the core issues surrounding food production and trade. It provides a link between personal actions and community efforts that create a more just and sustainable world. An interdisciplinary educational resource, the Equal Exchange curriculum addresses U.S. curriculum standards from a wide variety of subjects while providing a Fair Trade education. The flexible structure allows teachers to easily incorporate one or two classes into current lesson plans, or use all four units.
In collaboration with educators, Equal Exchange seeks to extend the concepts of fairness and sustainability into the classroom and engage students in the Fair Trade movement.
If you work with children, this is an excellent resource for educating them about Fair Trade. This is also an excellent resource for educating yourself if you’d like to know about how Fair Trade and Co-ops work.
