Lesson Plan: Social Consequences of Fashion Choices
Learning Goals
(by the end of the session, students will be able to...)
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Discuss about fashion consumption and social status
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Connect fashion consumption choices to social consequences
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Talk about why clothes matter
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Summary of Tasks
Talk with the students about their fashion choices and how clothes impact their social life. How do you choose your fashion preferences?
Deepening into fashion choices and social effect using specific resources from the website
Focus on a specific topic and its extensions (i.e. fashion and fitting in). Discuss how different choices can affect on personal and collective levels. Use resources from the website
​Ask the students if they think fashion is important for our social life? How would they describe the connection between fashion and social life?
Online interactive learning materials (resources from materialism and corporate social responsibility may be helpful)
Online interactive learning materials
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RESPECT Serious Game
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RESPECT Serious Game Implementation Plan
Resources
Estimated Time
Task
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Share ideas with students
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 then to collect as many social points as possible.
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 consuming 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?
Or ask them to undertake corporate social responsibility experiments and challenges task 1 and report back on the outcomes.
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