Education

NEW! Child’s Fair Trade Chocolate Power Point

Teach children where their chocolate comes from and how they can be part of creating a better world through Fair Trade! Power point includes a full script to make it easy to present, and can be geared towards older or younger children. Download .pptx file (25Mb)

Win Win Solutions: Interactive Classroom Activities

Download the FREE curriculum: Win Win Solutions: An Introduction to Fair Trade and Cooperative Economics in PDF format.

Equal Exchange's curriculum 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.

• Grades 4 – 9
• 124 Pages
• 16 Classes
• Special full-color insert

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. We hope you will find this to be a valuable educational resource.

Questions? For additional information about the Equal Exchange curriculum, Win Win Solutions, please contact Ruthie Oland at (774) 776-7371 or fundraising@equalexchange.coop

Download PDFs of Individual Units and Classes

• Introduction
• Unit 1: Our Choices Matter
  • Class 1: The Fruits of Fairness - See the distribution of wealth in numbers that kids can understand. (Math, Social Studies)
  • Class 2: The Power of One - Get inspired by what others are doing around the world and dream about how you'd like to make a difference. (Writing)
  • Class 3: Problems with our Food System - Learn about the underbelly of our food system. (Writing & Civics)
  • Class 4: What You Eat - Explore what goes into the foods you eat. (Science & Nutrition)
  • Class 5: Where Your Food Comes From - Look at your daily diet and track where your foods come from. (Geography & Online Research Skills)
• Unit 2: Understanding Fair Trade
  • Class 1: Hard Work - Follow the journey of what it takes to turn a plant into chocolate. (Science & Cultures)
  • Class 2: What's Fair Game - Role play what it’s like to trade cocoa. (Math & Science)
    For Spanish Teachers (Translated for intermediate Spanish classes by Gordon School Spanish Teacher, Suzanne Pezzuli)
  • Class 3: A Day in the Life - Compare your usual day to that of a child of a cocoa farmer. How are you different and the same? (Social Studies & Writing)
  • Class 4: Jigsaw - Make connections between Fair Trade products across the globe. (Critical Thinking & Group Work)
  • Class 5: Fair Trade Mural - Create art together to help tell the cocoa story. (Color, Space, Art)
  • Class 6: The Farmer's Ballad - Hear a farmer’s story from a local perspective. (Music & Language)
• Unit 3: Understanding Cooperatives
  • Class 1: Cooperatives Meet People's Needs - Learn about your local cooperative scene. (Science & Business)
  • Class 2: Democracy in Action - Find out about real life trade-offs from co-op membership. (Social Studies & English)
  • Class 3: Running a Student Cooperative - Create and become cooperative entrepreneurs. (Cooperative Business)
  • Class 4: Making Choices - Write your story and try to persuade your listeners. (English & Food Business)
• Unit 4: Make a Difference - Work together to help solve a local problem you all care about. (Civic Engagement)

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