Lesson Plan: Financial 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 financial 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.
Discuss with the students their fashion choices and how they affect them financially. Do they do market research before buying clothes to find the best offer?
Deepening into fashion choices and financial effect using specific resources from the website
Focus on a specific topic and its extensions – the cost of clothing and how that relates to wages for those producing the goods. Discuss how different choices can affect us at a personal and collective level. Use resources from the website
Deepen the discussion with the students. Which fashion purchases are considered unnecessary? Have they recently bought pieces of clothing that haven't used? This offers opportunities to connect to the other sub-topics detailed within fashion.
​Online interactive learning materials (resources from circular fashion and corporate social responsibility may be helpful)
Online interactive learning materials (especially around corporate social responsibility)
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RESPECT Serious Game
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RESPECT Serious Game Implementation Plan
Resources
Estimated Time
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Wrap up summary
Assignment
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Ask the students to play the game at home. The goal is to make fashion consumption choices that will enable them to collect as many financial points as possible.
After they finish the game, ask them to prepare a presentation about their results.
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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 circular economy experiments and challenges task 1 (this could be done in class) and report back on the outcomes.