Consumer Power: Lesson 1

Starter

Students should be provided with a selection of the Year 8 articles. Give them about 5 minutes to find evidence of bias in the articles. This could be done using a highlighter or by underlining key points. At the end of the 5 minutes share 2 or 3 examples to check they have the right idea.

Main activity

Students then need to be presented with evidence from both sides of the sweatshop debate. This could be extracts from textbooks and websites (as described above) or as a series of Geog Consumer Power Statement Cards (11 KB). Students should use the evidence to edit out and correct the bias in the original articles.

Plenary

Draw together the issues related to the use of sweatshops by businesses that supply multinationals.

Identify the way the presentation of the issue can be biased.

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Geog Consumer Power Lessons (, 46 KB)
Geog Consumer Power Article 1 (, 22 KB)
Geog Consumer Power Article 2 (, 51 KB)
Geog Consumer Power Article 3 (, 77 KB)
Geog Consumer Power Article 4 (, 86 KB)
Geog Consumer Power Statement Cards (, 11 KB)
Geog Consumer Power Article 5 (, 25 KB)