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Afternoon session: fair trade

Key focus: Continue to consider how we all share responsibility for making the world a better, fairer place through the issue of fair trade.

Activities
> Run a fair trade tasting stall
> Make fair trade posters/leaflets
> Enact the journey of a banana
> Fair trade cookery

Background information for teachers
These activities continue on the theme of fair trade. As there will not be time for all pupils to carry out all of the suggestions given, it will be necessary to choose one or two of the activities. Alternatively, different groups of children could choose from the list and later present their work to the class.

Activity 1: Plan to run a fair trade tasting stall

You will need:
> Fairtrade food and drink – you could ask your local Oxfam or supermarket to donate some samples.

Discuss with the class the purpose of having a tasting stall. Ask the pupils to discuss ways of attracting people to the stall and interesting them in Fairtrade products.

Set up a stall somewhere in the school. The pupils may like to decorate the stall with the posters they made in a previous activity.

Divide the pupils into small groups and assign a time for each group to staff the stall. The pupils may like to give out free cups of Fairtrade tea and coffee and let people try the chocolate. If pupils have made any Fairtrade biscuits, they may like to sell these on the stall.

Encourage the pupils to hand out the leaflets (made earlier) and talk to people about fair trade.

The pupils may also like to have other activities associated with their stall – maybe a raffle or a quiz.

Activity 2: Make fair trade posters/leaflets

You will need:
> Paper and equipment for making posters and leaflets.

Divide the pupils into small groups and assign each group a different product, for example, honey, tea, coffee, cocoa. In groups, ask them to brainstorm the features they should consider in preparing an advert in the UK for a fairly traded product. They should prepare a group list to share with the rest of the class.

They type of things they might consider would include factors specific to their product and factors common to all fairly traded foodstuffs. Suggestions might include: that the product tastes good; that the product is already popular with other consumers; that the producers benefit from the purchase of this product; that the producers have taken care of the environment.

The groups should then share their lists with the rest of the class so that a class list can be compiled. Points for discussion might include: will people be more willing to buy the product because it helps the producers?

The groups should then do on to design their own poster adverts for their products, concentrating on making adverts as different as possible from those of standard goods.

From Making a Meal of it, Oxfam 1998

Activity 3: Enact journey of a banana

Show the class the banana photostory and make sure they understand the stages of the journey of a banana. If there are enough computers, pupils could study the story for themselves. Divide the class into groups of five or six pupils. Ask each group to prepare a drama based on the photostory. The groups should then present their dramas to the class.

Activity 4: Fair trade cookery

You will need:
> The ingredients for the recipes you choose

Follow these recipes for chocolate cake, orange and chocolate biscuits, hot fruit salad or banana cake.

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