Fair trade chocolate - the bitter side.

This next one is 45 mins long but very relevant. This short film tells us about Kuapa Koko and how it works

Biscuit Game

Chocolate - not any more. All due to Global Warming.

We all know Scots love their chocolate and most don't care how expensive it is. You might have to pay a lot more for it in future though as a study has revealed places growing cocoa beans will have different weather because of global warming. Other crops will be affected too - grapes ans wheat. That's bad news for wine and pasta prices! The original article is here if you want to read more

Interdisciplinary Work - HE / Geography

Some Fairtrade interdisciplinary work for Fairtrade fortnight. And a good time was had by all.......
Fair trade muffin making - S4 on PhotoPeach

Active Learning and a bit of theft

A great lesson from S4 this afternoon using the biscuit trading game. We had theft from Antarctica and some really hard trading from Hannah as Africa only had a crispbread to trade with but ended up with a few better things. A few only traded with their friends and then the mistrust factor wouldn't let them eat the biccies provided in case the teacher went crazy at them! When they realised there was no catch then they all disappeared apart from the one in Connor's pocket that was kept for the way home. A good introduction to the trade and aid unit I think. Apparently -the best ever Geography lesson.

Made in China

Lovely song here about where things are made highlighted in SLN by Stephen Schwab and Tony Cassidy. Ideal reminder for our S2 looking at the Geography of "stuff".

Chocolate week

It's Chocolate Week, in case you needed an excuse for more chocolate. Here’s some information about different types we have mentioned in class.
• Traidcraft has been fighting poverty through trade, with all its profits going back to the producers. It has made a commitment to convert to sustainable palm oil for all of its products. Good news for the orang utangs.
• Divine Chocolate Kuapa Kokoo, the farmers' co-operative that produces the cocoa for Divine.
Outside of these ethical leaders, the chocolate trade is anything but sweet. More than a third of cocoa traded globally comes from Ivory Coast recently 54 children were rescued from slave labour, from its plantations. Violence in the country since 2002 has also been called the "chocolate war, with hundreds dying in conflicts over the cocoa trade.
In February, the Gates Foundation pledged £14.4m to examine conditions in the west African trade. Hershey, Kraft Foods and Mars have pledged a further £26.3m to the project. And since Cadbury's Dairy Milk brand went Fairtrade – things are perhaps looking up for these children and adults.
Chocolate is a good example of how ethical consumption can change things in the world. Even before Dairy Milk's decision sales of Fairtrade chocolate in the UK grew from £1m in 1998 to £26.8m in 2008. Cadbury's will be supplied by Kuapa Kokoo, the co-op that co-owns Divine. If it hadn’t been for Divine spending years working with farmers and educating people like us about this issue, there's no way Cadbury's could have changed to Fairtrade.

Fairtrade chocolate

Swap your choc to Fairtrade choc

Fair Trade chocolate

Bit of fun here for S2

Fairtrade bananas

Short animation explaining how Fairtrade works and helping to dispel some common misconceptions. Bernadette and Carlos – 2 bananas discuss this issue.

Message from a BBC newsreader - George Alagiah on Fair trade

Food miles video

Find more videos like this on Key Stage 3 Geography Ning

Fairtrade water project in Argentina. Water from wine!!!

A lot of subtitles here but this is a good video to watch. It is short folks! Don’t think I am encouraging you to go and drink wine. NO. Adults only please. This does show the power of cooparative work and fair-trade.

Fairtrade from mktlr on Vimeo.

Christmas and Fairtrade

Bananas and Fair trade
Great video here to back up what S2 have been studying in class

Think about their impact on YOU.

Globalisation: Global Brands

From: geographyalltheway,

geographyalltheway.com: Globalization: Global Brands

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: geography geographyalltheway)

Great images here from Richard Allaway. S2 should link this in to our studies of globalisation after we have completed the chocolate surveys.

Globalisation and travel

Completely "stolen" from Richard Allaway. Here is an outline of S2 tasks for next week -assuming classroom in a box is working!
Road transport

Water


Rail



Air



Choose one of the modes of transport from above (Road, Water, Rail, Air) and produce a timeline (either using this site or on paper) to show major achievements in that area. For example: first flight, first passenger flight, first Transatlantic flight etc. Is it still used today?

Describe the impact that advances in an area of transport (Road, Water, Rail or Air) has had upon globalization. [10 Marks]

Travel across the channel

McGeography

If you want an example of globalisation in action, play the McDonald game from Richard Alloway's website. Go on you know you want to..........

Click the photo below.

The Box

The Box is an ambitious and unique year-long project for BBC News to tell the story of international trade and globalisation by tracking a standard shipping container around the world.As we discussed in class we will be looking at where this container is going and the effect of this on trade patterns in the world. How does this affect us? See over the next few weeks. The journey started in September leaving Greenock with a load of whisky going to China! If you click on the picture below you can see a video of this.

Link here

The BBC has a series of pages on this topic but I think they are a little complex for S2 at the moment. The link is here if anyone wants a look. Fee free! Link here

Marks and Spencer has just opened its largest store in Asia, and the first in mainland China.
Although most of the country cannot afford to shop at the store, there is no shortage of customers. The manager of Marks and Spencer in Shanghai said
"Digestive biscuits are an exotic draw - at 30% off, Shanghainese shoppers have been grabbing them by the armful. "

The journey is almost read to continue its route from China to the USA with a ship load of clothes. Keep watching this site to track its progress.

Banana Wars - Caribbean

Another link to Fair Trade and trade patterns. This Youtube video can't be embedded, so here is the link. Th farmers choos to grow illegal drugs rather than bananas - why? Who is to blame for this? What do you think can be done about it?

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=lKLXpm9nrT0

I thought I'd play about with wordle for the new S2 course. What do you think? For those who don't know this great tool try it here.