Social Studies

For Thursday, May 2nd, Social Studies

Find and research products produced through child labour, forced labour or slavery.  Identify products, countries and companies.  Follow the same steps for researching food items.  

Ethical Consumerism

Products of Slavery and Child Labour Map

https://www.antislavery.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/products_of_slavery_and_child_labour_2016.pdf

Sugar https://www.cnn.com/2012/05/01/world/asia/philippines-child-labor/index.html

Coffee http://bizbrain.org/coffee/

https://foodispower.org/our-food-choices/coffee/

Bananas http://www.fao.org/world-banana-forum/projects/good-practices/child-labour/en/

Tea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53wDnXB1yek

Citrus Fruits https://www.independent.co.uk/news/children-as-young-as-five-suffer-in-picking-fruit-for-our-orange-juice-1201133.html

Slavery

World Map Link

• Title: The Slave Trade Triangle
• Colour the countries involved in the slave trade. (each country can be a different colour of your choice)
• At the bottom of the map, make 2 lists.  One for the countries the slaves were from and the other for the countries accepting the slaves.  
• Show the arrows that make the triangle.  

Links for information on
The Komagata Maru

Links for archival photos for Chinese immigration unit:

Songhees population

Chinese population

White population

Chinese Immigration 1853-1923

Chinese Immigration 1947-1960