Teach Fair Trade. Ideas and activities for parents, teachers and schools.

Teach fair trade in the classroom.

Fair Trade and its principles is a complex and involved set of interaction and the new way of looking at a more sustainable world. We are at a crucial point in our history with environmental destruction, worldwide recession, starvation, poverty and waste.

We can teach our children a better way and get them involved with creating a brighter, better world for themselves while making it fun and interesting. There are many resources out there to help you teach fair trade. Here are some ideas for you from leaders in the fair trade movement who offer great ideas and lesson plans.





Go to the BeadforLife Curriculum for youth and get step by step instruction with handouts, video, music and more for middle and highschool students.

Papapaa has excellent resources for teaching about fairtrade and cocoa.

Oxfam Education has a game called the ((Coffee Chain Game)) which teaches kids how coffee money is distributed. They also offer numerous lesson plans for every age group on many different subjects like "Change the World in Eight Steps" and "Children's Rights".

Global Exchange Fair Trade Classroom pages have many creative ideas and lesson plans for all ages which satisfy state teaching standards, help kids to have a global impact and they make it fun!

Teach Fair Trade Sports offers full, downloadable guides with fair trade lesson plans, teacher's notes and student activities for both public and private school and for all grade levels. The curriculum uses a fair trade soccer ball as a teaching tool, and includes all aspects of fair trade in areas like social justice, technology and art.