This section contains ready-to-deliver, student-participation workshops, mostly 60-70 minutes in duration. Many are self-contained; most outside material that is referred to within these workshops can be found in the Workshop Resource Materials section. As an alternative to workshops, we also have presentations (PowerPoint or lecture format).
This Word document outlines a 70-minute workshop for high school students through adults, 15-50 people. It teaches issues of food security, globalization, and trade agreements in a participatory (popular education) format. Activities are a World in Jeopardy game and a PowerPoint presentation.
This Word document outlines a 70-minute workshop for high school students through adults, 15-30 people. It teaches issues of trade and globalization in a participatory (popular education) format. This is done by playing either the World Vision 'Trade Game' or an Oxfam-modified version, the Manufacturing Foods game. Both games are available separately.
This Word document outlines a 70-minute workshop for high school students through adults, 15-50 people. It teaches issues of trade and globalization in a participatory (popular education) format. This is done by playing The Bead Game.
This Word document outlines a 70-minute workshop for high school students through adults, 15-30 people. It teaches sweatshop issues in a participatory (popular education) format. The activity is a stakeholder meeting role-play.
This Word document outlines a 70-minute workshop for high school students through adults, 15-50 people. It teaches sustainable development in a participatory (popular education) format. Activities include role playing (cash crops vs. sustainable farming) and a bingo game.
This Word document outlines a 60-minute workshop for high school students through adults, 15-50 people. It teaches sustainable development in a participatory (popular education) format. Activities include group discussions (buying local/organic vs. imported) and a matching messages game.
Relating to sweatshop issues and Oxfam's Women Working in Global Supply Chains campaign, this Negotiations game is to engage participants to think critically about the new business/trade model and to present the harsh conditions faced by workers at the bottom of global supply chains.
This Word document outlines a 70-minute workshop for high school students through adults, 15-50 people. It teaches issues of food security and globalization in a participatory (popular education) format. Activities are a World in Jeopardy game and a flowchart exercise.
(Also known as Food for Thought.) This toolkit contains a workshop with several introductory activities for teaching food security and fair trade issues. It also contains introductory information on how to set up high school workshops.
This PDF contains a 70-120 minute workshop based on a video, quiz, and discussion. You can borrow the video, Global Villages: Grains of Truth, from any Oxfam Canada office.
