Market and Equality

Learning Outcomes

1. Learn about the roles played by different people involved in the chain of market from the producer of cotton to the consumer of shirt .
2. Identifying that all are not benefiting equally from this buying and selling.
3. Concept of value addition and profit

 

Description Of Activity

Activity 1 Potato Race

Draw 5 rows of circleswith 20 meters difference

RUNNERS ARE POSITIONED IN EACH CIRCLE

1. Farmers/weavers/workers
2. Merchants
3. Garment making factory owner
4. Exporter
5. Business people

10 potatoes /stones are kept in each circle of first row

1. First runners  collects stones/potatoes from the first circles (where 10 stones/potatoes kept) and keep in the second row ofcircles. Second runners collects these stones /potatoes from second circle and keep in the third row of circles.then from there stones are collected by third runners to the fourth row of circles  and then fourth runners to the fifth row of circles  and then fifth runners to the final destination  one by one .Once all stones/potatoes are finished in the first circle the game is over.
2. 3.Counting the number of stones /potatoes transferred by each runners
3. 4.different points to different people
4. Farmers /weavers/workers get 1 point for each stone/potato
5. Merchant  gets 3 points for each stone/potato
6. Garment factory owners gets 5 points for each stone/potato
7. Exporter  gets 7 points for each stone/potato
8. Business people get 10 points for each stone/potato
9. Always the final runners gets more points  than others and the points decreases from final runners to the first runners.

Activity 2 Potato Bucket race

A number of lanes, one per runner, would be marked out. Potatoes would be placed at intervals along each lane, and a basket would be placed several feet behind the lane. Runners would race to retrieve potatoes one by one, returning each one to the basket before returning for the next. The winner was the first to collect all the potatoes in their lane.In one variation, two runners competed to be the first to return fifty potatoes to their own basket, racing simultaneously to take the closest potato from a single line of one hundred potatoes rather than separate lanes

Variations

1. Number of circles in the rows can be increasedin a descending order to include more students in the game. Rules also can be changed to show debtors by insisting first runners to move potatoes to a specified circle
2. We can play this game with increasing number of players in a descending order and proportionate increase in points to show that more people are benefiting less and become poor and a few rich  people are gaining more from the market .

 

Coaching Tips

This lesson can be made interesting by bringing in creativity and aligning it to the learning outcomes of ‘A SHIRT IN THE MARKET’ and this sport.

 

Equipment/Material Required

Circles making with chalk powder, score board to mark the points ,potatoes/stones