"Fair Chocolate", School Journal, level 4, November 2014
18 November 2014
Ewan Cameron works for a fair-trade company. He’s part of a project team responsible for setting up the company’s new chocolate factory in Sydenham in Christchurch.
The company Ewan works for is not for profit. This means that instead of using any profit to reward owners or shareholders, the company has a very different purpose: using its money to improve the lives of the people it trades with, all of whom live in developing countries.
You can find a PDF version of this article, the teacher support materials, and the audio files on Literacy Online: "Fair chocolate".
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Discussion starters
- Characteristics of technology: Use this and other examples to describe how societal and/or environmental issues can influence what people decided to make, how they would undertake planning, the selection of resources, and how they would make and test an outcome. Explain why particular technological outcomes have changed over time. Describe examples of how technology has impacted on the social world over time. (level 3)
- Technological products: Use this and other examples to describe how the properties combine to ensure the materials allow the product to be technically feasible and socially acceptable. (level 3)