Winners and losers at the Olympics, Practical Action

The Practical Action education team produce regular sustainability updates for Design and Technology at Key Stage 4. This set of teaching activities focuses on workers' rights and the Olympics. Whilst not written with fashion tutors at further and higher education in mind it may provide some useful starting points for discussion.

Activities and content includes:

- background information on workers' rights and the Olympics

- comparing 2 sets of factory workers lives

- further reading around Fairtrade certified cotton

- homework questions

- design ideas using waste

Practical Action, (2008), Winners and losers at the Olympics, 2 pages.

This teaching activity has been taken from Parker, L. and Dickson, M.A. (2009) Sustainable Fashion: A Handbook for Educators, Bristol: Labour Behind the Label. Download the whole publication here.

1. Level	Pre-16
2. Pre-requisite knowledge required by educators	C. Some knowledge of discipline required.
3. Pre-requisite knowledge required by students	A. No background knowledge required.
4. Number of students	Any number
5. Length of time required	Adjustable
6. Type of activity	Individual work, Group work, Student presentations, Interactive activities, Ideas for projects, assignments and briefs, Discussion and debate,
7. Discipline	Cross-curricular, Design, Interactive
8. Topics covered	Campaigns, Companies, Corporate social responsibility, Environment, Fair trade, Working conditions

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