RW+8.2

=Resources and Wealth= ====**Outcome RW 8.2 -** //**Assess the implications of personal consumer choices.** // ==== ====The Big Idea: What happens when I buy and use products? How does what I buy affect others? Why does it matter //where// and //what// I buy? ====


What is local? 100 mile diet Amy Jo Ehman - [] []
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Sobey’s and the Sovereign Colony

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b. Create a catalogue of locally-produced products and of fair-trade products available in local businesses.
Fair Trade
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c. Assess the advantages and disadvantages of buying locally, buying fair-trade products, and buying mass-produced products.
eBay shopping – global Walmart Supercentre – impact on communities, employment
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Social Services

Stats Canada

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d. Illustrate the effects of excessive consumption in personal, community, and national contexts.
The Story of Stuff []
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Advantages of buying locally <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">What is local? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">How do we define cheaper?

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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Action Plan – <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Health Link – Nutrition Action plan – Health
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">What is Green? Water bottles? Recycled paper? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Links to Science?? Containers then have to be washed with detergents, etc. but paper is recyclable

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Some Ideas: for your classroom: //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">1. Use a Frayer Model for terms, definitions and recording information. // //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">2. RAN Charts (reading and analyzing non-fiction) as an alterative organizer to the KWLS. // //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">3. Venn Diagrams are very useful for comparing and contrasting information. //