Jori the Farmer

In 5DC, we are inquiring into the concept of Ethics and how it fits into trade and businesses.

Here is a situation. What do you think about it? Why do you believe what you believe?

 

Jori the farmer

Jori is a 34 year old farmer with a wife and four children.  He wakes up and works the land very hard all day, taking only a 15 minute break to eat his lunch at noon hour.  At the end of each month, a man driving a nice and expensive car turns up at his farm.  Jori gives the man all the crops that are ready to be eaten, while the man gives Jori some money for his crops.  Jori loves his family very much, but he has not earned enough money to feed his family 3 meals a day.

First Logos and Slogans

Business Field Trip

Here are some photos from the "Business Trip" that 5SB and 5DC went on, on Wednesday. From a teacher's perspective, the students have been making great progress in their learning of the way people trade goods and services. Students went out to the Holland Village wet market, the Holland Village independent shops above Cold Storage and experienced a Q&A session with Suriya, a very patient store manager at Jelita Cold Storgage.

How We Organize Ourselves

The amazing students in 5DC dove into a new unit this week.  In IB language, it's study of the trans disciplinary theme, How We Organize Ourselves.

Our Central Idea: 

Marketplaces depend on the ability to produce goods and supply services.

Accompanying lines of inquiry: 

1. Ethics of trade

2. Ways in which we depend upon people in other places

3. Global movement and communication affects the availability of goods and services

Students in 5DC put together their heads to come up with business plans to sell one of the items that I had assigned (video games, soda, bag of onions, tshirts, and old books).  They started off simply with asking questions, then they had to focus on asking questions that would help them with the business plans.  

5DC students are great with asking questions. They turned their focus from asking questions such as, "What's the best video game ever?" to "Where will we get the video games?"

 

Then students had the chance to read other groups' questions, and add questions that they thought would help the original group with their ideas.  Finally, students were asked to draw up some rough plans for their business ideas and create a 3 minutie