Fairtrade By Mollie Smyth

Introduction

In my WebQuest, you will become fairtrade know it all's!! In class, you have been learning all about fairtrade. In this WebQuest, you will learn all about what fairtrade is and what it does.

You will see why fairtrade is so important to our lives and others around us.























Task

Your task,

You work as a reporter on TV news and your editor wants you to do a report on 10th May (World Fair Trade day) WFT.

You have been given a brief to cover the following information in your report.

  • What is fair trade day about?
  • What is fair trade and where did it all begin?
  • What are the principles of fair trade?
  • What orginisations are included in fair trade and what is fair trade councelling?
  • What events will take place on 2014 world fair trade day?
  • What can we do to support fair trade?

Research and compose a script for a 5 minuate news report that covers the important information above.







Process

Step 1.   Research using some of these websites. In the first one there is a video about fairtrade.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAnc2zQ8evk

http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/

http://www.fairtrade.net/

http://www.wfto.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=242&Itemid=109

Step 2. Do some more reasearch on websites that you find on your own.

Step 3. Take notes on the information you have got trying to link it to all the questions in the previous page.

Step 4. Once you have done all this, place you notes in order of which your going to say in your script.

Step 5. Once you are happy with your order of the report, start to make a rough copy of your script. Here is a video of a fairtrade video of making bananas fair.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CGLAZrWpDw

Step 6. Once you have shown your teacher and you have made it the best you can including all the information from your research and the questions, you can start making the final product on an A4 piece of paper. You can also include on A4 some posters to show the logo of fairtrade or one of the events that will be happeneing.















Evaluation



Beginning

1

Developing

2

Accomplished

3

Exemplary

4

Score

 

Fair trade day

 Gives vague details of world fair trade day and no example of events Gives vague details of fair trade day and some examples of events. Gives over view of fair trade day and more events. Gives detailed account of purpose of fair trade day supported with numerous examples of world fair trade day events.

About fair trade

Gives a vague overview of fair trade and no examples of principles. Gives a little information of fair trade and one or two examples of principles. Gives more information about fair trade and three or four examples of principles Gives a very detailed overview of fair trade and lots of examples of principles.

Fair trade orginisations

 Gives a vauge understanding of the orginisations of fair trade but gives no examples. Gives a vague understanding and one or two examples of orginisatioins. Gives more information on fair trade and three of four examples of orginisations. Gives a very detailed overview of orginisations and lots of examples.

Supporting fair trade

 Gives a little bit of information about supporting fair trade but no examples of what they do to support it. Gives a little bit of information and a few examples of supporting it. Gives a little bit more information and some examples of suppors. Gives a very detailed knowledge about supporting fair trade and gives a lot of examples of what they do to support it.






Conclusion



Now you are all fair trade geniuses! I hope you understand the importance of fair trade now. And most of all, I hope you have enjoyed my web quest on fair trade!!!



Credits
Teacher Page

If you would like to see that your pupil has reached the standard that you would like them to, go to the evaluation and compare that to your pupils piece of writing. If you want to find out any information, go to the websites highlighted on the process.