Fairtrade Schools
Added: 12 Nov 2016
Contributor:
Clare Quigley
Resource type:
Project
Make your school a Fairtrade certified school in five easy steps. Details and application form from Fairtrade Ireland can be found here.
How it maps to the curriculum
Strand: Myself & the Wider World
Strand unit: Developing citizenship
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- suggest ways of helping other people at home, in school and in the local community
Suggestions for use: Teach Fairtrade lessons as part of Fairtrade fortnight which runs in late February/early March each year.
Strand: Myself & the Wider World
Strand unit: Developing citizenship
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- begin to appreciate how people depend on each other in many aspects of life
- develop an awareness of people in other places
Suggestions for use: Teach Fairtrade lessons as part of Fairtrade fortnight which runs in late February/early March each year.
Strand: Myself & the Wider World
Strand unit: Developing citizenship
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- examine how justice, fairness and equality may or may not be exemplified in a community
- explore some of the issues and concerns in the local or national community
- recognise how each person has both an individual and a communal responsibility to the community
Suggestions for use: Teach Fairtrade lessons as part of Fairtrade fortnight which runs in late February/early March each year.
Strand: Myself & the Wider World
Strand unit: Developing citizenship
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- identify some local issues of concern and explore possible action that could be taken to address these issues
- realise and begin to understand the unequal distribution of the world’s resources
- recognise and understand the role of the individual and various groups in the community
Suggestions for use: Teach Fairtrade lessons as part of Fairtrade fortnight which runs in late February/early March each year.
- 5-6
- SESE Geography
Strand: Human Environments
Strand unit: Trade & Development
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- come to appreciate the inequalities between the developed and the developing world
- explore, through the study of some major world commodities, trade issues
