Lesson Plan: Environmental Consequences of Fashion Choices
Learning Goals
(by the end of the session, students will be able to...)
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Teach about conscious consumption
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Connect fashion consumption choices to environmental consequences
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Encourage creativity by letting students decide and make consumption choices by playing the game
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Summary of Tasks
​Introduce the topic. Initiate a discussion with students. Use external resources if applicable.
Deepening into the topic using specific resources from the website
Focus on a specific topic and its extensions (e.g. fashion production, water usage, and CO2 production). Discuss how different choices can affect us personally and collectively.
Use resources from the website.
Introduce the RESPECT serious game to the students. Use the guide for the Implementation plan and open the game in the classroom so that students are getting used to the game environment.
Online interactive learning materials (for instance on circular fashion, fibre recycling or water footprint).
Online interactive learning materials
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RESPECT Serious Game
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RESPECT Serious Game Implementation Plan
Resources
Estimated Time
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RESPECT Serious Game Implementation Plan
Explain the goal and the gameplay.
Assignment
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Ask the students to play the game at home. The goal is to make fashion consumption choices that will collect as many environmental points as possible.
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After they finish the game, ask them to prepare a presentation about their results.
Things to include in the presentation:
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Which fashion consumption fact they discovered while playing the game surprised them the most?
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Do they apply some of their in-game choices in their real life? If not, are they willing to do so?
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Or ask them to undertake one of the water footprint or fibre recycling, take a stance or experiments and challenges tasks and report back on the outcomes.
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