Lesson Plans and other Free Teaching Materials
Bring your students up-to-speed with fair trade issues
Jean Kiekopf and Alex Savage, two Norfolk-based ASTs at Framlingham Earl High School and Notre Dame High School respectively, have prepared lessons to help bring Year 8 and Year 10 students up-to-speed with fair trade issues. At the same time as teaching students about fair trade, you can also meet objectives laid out in the KS3 Year 8 framework and give students in Year 10 the opportunity to enter into productive group discussions, prepare individual oral presentations and complete a piece of writing in which they analyse, review and comment upon fair trade.
If you have developed other resources exploring issues around trade, fair trade and trade justice, and wish to share them at this website, please contact us.
Secondary School English Teachers
- Fairtrade Lesson
- Author: Jean Kiekopf, AST, Framlingham Earl High School
- Objective: To learn how to analyse and annotate a leaflet containing information about Fairtrade. To plan and make a similar leaflet, for people their own age, using informative and persuasive writing skills.
- Class: Year 8, English
- Download: Fairtrade Lesson (45 KB, DOC)
- Download: Make Fairtrade Your Habit leaflet (379 KB, PDF)
- Fairtrade Lessons
- Author: Jean Kiekopf, AST, Framlingham Earl High School
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- Objective 1: To assess a piece of group work discussion where ideas on Fairtrade are explored and where leaflets and posters are evaluated for factual content and persuasive language style. Students will complete peer assessment during the lesson. Homework is to research the subject of Fairtrade further and present an individual oral piece, which can be used for assessment.
- Objective 2: To assess individual oral presentations exploring Fairtrade issues. To listen and make guided notes. To set up a written task where moral issues relating to Fairtrade are explored in writing for next lesson.
- Objective 3: Students write a formal essay to analyse, review and comment on the topic: It is our moral duty to buy Fairtrade goods wherever possible.
- Class: Year 10, English
- Download: Fairtrade Lessons (141 KB, DOC)
- Download: Make Fairtrade Your Habit leaflet (379 KB, PDF)
Secondary School ICT Teachers
- Analysing a Fair Trade leaflet
- Author: Alex Savage, AST, Notre Dame High School
- Objective: These activities are ammended versions of several Key Stage 3 sample activities for unit 7.3 Creating a Leaflet. They enable the students to study a real, professionally-designed leaflet to understand the purpose of corporate image, design layout and logos. The activities show students what questions to ask when evaluating a piece of work and what criteria to use when assessing their own work.
- Curriculum Links: KS3
- Download: Evaluating the Fairtrade Logo (? KB, PPT Powerpoint file)
- Download: Using Call Outs (? KB, PPT Powerpoint file)
- Download: Evaluating a Fairtrade Leaflet worksheet (1.14 MB, DOC)
- Download: Make Fairtrade Your Habit leaflet (379 KB, PDF)
