WAB Learns: PYP: How we organise ourselves: G4

CENTRAL IDEA

Economic decisions have consequences for others and the environment.

Lines of Inquiry

Effects of Economic Globalization
The garment industry in Bangladesh makes clothes that are then shipped out across the world. It employs as many as four million people, but the average worker earns less in a month than a U.S. worker earns in a day.
Smart consumers can set a new course for people and planet.
Consumers in markets big and small are increasingly motivated to be more environmentally conscious and are exercising their power and voice through the products they buy.