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**INQUIRY LEARNING:**
**SOLO TAXONOMY**

__**Multi-structural thinking - Do some research to find out the following:**__ 1. What is Trade?

2. What kinds of things are traded?

3. How can trade involve more than one country?
 * __Relational__**
 * __Explain:__**

4. Why do people and /or countries trade with one another?

__**Extended Abstract**__ 5. How does international trade work?

6. How do tariffs work?

7. What are the benefits of selling raw materials? (i.e. seeds such as coffee, bananas, cocoa, cotton)

8. YOUR RESEARCH

Choose one product which is either a raw material or a manufactured product and research the following aspects of the product:


 * where it is grown and who are the producers of these goods around the world?;
 * what countries are producers of this product?
 * what are the problems associated with selling raw materials and manufactured goods made from the original product.
 * what are the problems associated with manufactured goods;


 * THINKING**
 * 1) Should Trade be 'free ' or 'fair'?
 * 2) Are some rules necessary? Labour rules? Environmental rules? What happens to these under 'free trade'?
 * 3) What happens to a countries right to make their own rules?
 * 4) Some countries force rules on other countries that they often do not adhere to themselves- i.e.: through the World Trade Organisation
 * 5) Why do you think this happens? Investigate the way the US trades compared to the beliefs they espouse.