How well do you know your geography when it comes to Africa? Unfortunately, many of us need to study up.
This online tool could be a great addition to learning activities on fast fashion supply chains – specifically on second-hand trade.
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The Playfair 2012 Campaign has launched with new cross-curriculum teaching resources for learners aged 9-14.
“Lesson ideas and activities make links between different subjects including art and design, citizenship, English, geography and maths. By using this pack, pupils can develop their understanding of why decent working conditions are part of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals to end poverty, and take practical actions to help make the world a fairer place.” (Playfair 2012 Campaign)
We’ve reported on the campaign in the past, recommending teachers utilize this interactive online game in the classroom.
New resource materials include:
Educators can order material directly from the campaign, or download the education packages, activity cards and pamphlets.
The campaign coalition is made up of Labour Behind the Label, the Trades Union Congress, the International Textile, Garment & Leather Workers Federation, the International Trade Union Federation, the Clean Clothes Campaign, Maquila Solidarity Network and Clearing the Hurdles.
Source: @playfair2012
The Creative Commons is embedded into our responsible education ethos; we have researched and aggregated content to create educational resources because we believe that accessibility leads to accountability. Of course knowledge is power, but without access to knowledge we will not move forward.
In 2009 we brought you “[Lesson 1] Sifting through the ‘Ecofashion’ Lexicon” and our “Fibre Analysis”. In 2010 we worked further to bringing you lessons on the social, cultural, economic and environmental interdisciplinary challenges facing the value system that is the global apparel supply chain.
Social Alterations 2010 //
[Lesson 4] Corporate Social Responsibility
[Lesson 3] Global Governance and the Corporation
[Lesson 2] Connect // Key Players
[Fashion High] Understanding the Impact of your Clothing (pre-16 learners)
Social Alterations 2009 //
[Lesson 1] Sifting through the ‘Ecofashion’ Lexicon
Check out this how to on navigating our site:
Social Alterations 2010 // Program Guide from Social Alterations on Vimeo.
Fashion High @ Balmoral Jr. Secondary School from Social Alterations on Vimeo.
On Earth Day, SA stepped back into the classroom to introduce Grade 8 students to the social and environmental impacts of fashion.
We have collated our favorite activities from Teaching Sustainable Fashion: A Handbook for Educators as well as developed our own exercises to create two workshops for pre-16 learners.
These workshops hope to engage, educate, encourage and empower both educator and learner to get involved with the issues. Each workshop provides resources and tools to help lessen the impact of the fashion industry on both people and planet.
We’ve put together this video of the 1 Hour workshop in action, so that you may get a better picture on how this might work in your classroom.
Introduction
This workshop was designed to introduce pre-16 students/participants the value of a responsible fashion industry, by understanding the impact our clothing has on both people and planet.
Objectives
For more information on these activities, please visit the ‘Works Cited’ page at the end of each workshop.
* If you are planning to use this lesson, please let us know so that we may keep track of our programming.*
** Please ask your students to complete the online feedback forms**
[Fashion High] Understanding the Impact of your Clothing: An Introduction by Social Alterations is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Canada License.
Click on the links below to download the workshops:
Download here: Fashion High – 1HourWorkshop
Download here: Fashion High – 2HourWorkshop