1. Growing Chocolate Simulation

2. Simulation:Growing Cocoa Beans You are going to experience what happens to cocoa farmers when they are paid for their cocoa beans. You will do the activity twice. During the first round you will be independent farmers. During the second round you will be Fair Trade cooperative farmers.

3. Mastery Objectives: (Write these down on a sheet of paper) 1. Compare the lives of independent farmers with farmers in the Fair Trade cooperative. 2. Explain how fair trade farmers get a Social Benefit. 3. Explain how the Social Premium helps farmers.

4. Record your earnings On your paper write: Independent farmers earnings $ Fair Trade Cooperative earnings $ Social Premium earnings $

5. MATERIALS NEEDED Your sheet of paper Brown construction paper Pencils Cocoa bean templates Scissors Paper clips Play money (teacher)

6. Growing Beans: Independent Farmers You will “grow” your cocoa beans by making them out of paper. Use the templates on your tables to help you make quality beans that won’t be rejected by the Chocolate company. You will have 10 minutes to make the beans and you should try to make at least 25 beans.

7. Preparing your Beans for Sale Spread out your beans for inspection, putting them in groups of five.

8. Selling your Beans A representative of an International Chocolate Company will come to your table to buy your beans. You will receive $1.00 for each “sack” of five that the company buys.

9. Farms Go to your farms and way for the signal to begin. You are competing with others farmers. You want to make more beans and more money than they make.

10. Grow your cocoa beans

11. Reporting your income Write down the amount of money you earned.

12. Second Simulation Now you are Fair Trade Cooperative Farmers.

13. Move to your Cooperatives Sit three or four to a table.

14. Growing Beans: Fair Trade Farmer You will “grow” your cocoa beans again as Fair Trade Farmers. Cooperate with the other farmers. Use the templates to help you make quality beans that won’t be rejected by the Fair Trade Chocolate Company. You will have 10 minutes to make the beans and you should try to make at least 25 beans.

15. Preparing your Beans for Sale You should spread out your beans for inspection, putting them in groups of four.

16. Selling your Beans A representative of the “Fair Trade Chocolate’ Company will come to your table to buy your beans. You will receive $1.00 for each sack that the company buys.

17. Record your earnings Select someone from your group to keep a record of your earnings and tell you what your group earned.

18. Grow your cocoa beans

19. Social Premium Your cooperative will also receive a Social Premium of $ 100.00 for each bushel of beans (a bushel consists of 5 sacks) from the Fair Trade Chocolate Company because your cooperative is part owner of the Fair Trade Chocolate Company.

20. Reporting your income Record the amount of money your cooperative earned from the sale of your cocoa beans. Record the amount of money you earned as Social Premium.

21. Spending your Social Premium Your Fair Trade farming cooperative will decide how to spend the Social Premium of that your cooperative received. Decide how your cooperative will spend the Social Premium using the following list as a guide.

22. Social Premium Choices New school for the community New well Solar cookers for all families Soap business Computer Camp in Kumasi for the children Your ideas Be prepared to share and explain your choices.

23. Compare & Contrast Compare the lives of independent farmers with farmers in the Fair Trade cooperative. Why do the fair trade farmers get a Social Benefit? How does this help them?

24. Chocolate Consumers What can chocolate consumers do to help Ghanaian farmers get fair price for their cocoa and support their families and communities? What can you do?

25. The End

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