TITLE:
Create a Sweat-free
School at Gregorio Luperόn High School!
V.Hepner
Gregorio
Luperon H.S.
INTRODUCTION:
Watch this video about how students at Gregorio Luperόn
High School wear uniforms each day that were manufactured in sweatshops where
workers are severely exploited and think about how you can help to resolve this
issue in our school.
TASK:
the companies whose factories are considered sweatshops.
Articles:
PROCESS/RESOURCES:
Complete Worksheets #1-6.
Use the resources to help you. Each worksheet will be graded.
· Define the problem worksheet 1
Resources:
· Gathering the evidence of the problem worksheet
2
Resources:
· Identifying the causes of the problem worksheet
3
Resources:
· Evaluating the existing policy worksheet
4
Resources:
· Develop solutions worksheet
5
Resources:
· Select the best solution worksheet
6
EVALUATION:
CONCLUSION:
Thank you for working so
hard to research the exploitation of the workers who make Luperonian
students’ uniforms and for finding viable solutions to this problem. You
have gained valuable technology skills that have enabled you to present your
research that you have used to educate the GLHS Parents’ Association, students,
teachers, and other faculty at Gregorio Luperόn
High School.
STANDARDS:
Social Studies
Standard 4: Economics
Students will use a
variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of how the
United States and other societies develop economic systems and associated
institutions to allocate scarce resources, how major decision-making units
function in the United States and other national economies, and how an economy
solves the scarcity problem through market and nonmarket mechanisms.