Year 10 are studying how globalisation links places through supply chains. Before the lesson, students at the UK school and at a partner school in Accra, Ghana, each log five items of their own clothing in one Google Sheet that the two teachers share between school accounts: the country on the label and whether the brand is a UK or European one, with no names, prices or anything about where they live. In the lesson, students chart the combined data to see where both classes' clothes were made and how often UK and European brands appear in each school's data. On a class-to-class Teams call hosted by both teachers, each class describes its own end of the second-hand chain, the UK class what happens to clothes given to charity shops and clothing banks, the Accra class how bales of used clothes from abroad are sold in markets such as Kantamanto, and both classes question each other about the data while keeping the talk on the trade rather than anyone's family. Students finish by using the joint evidence to answer the unit question, who gains and who loses from fast fashion.
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