Who Made My Trainers? How To Be A Responsible Consumer

TASK

You are a team of investigative reporters. Your newspaper has assigned you the task of uncovering any unethical or exploitative practices in the way that well known “high street” brand names are produced and marketed. Your job is to produce a list of “OK” and “not OK” brandnames, and a report to justify your list.

To complete the WebQuest assignment, you will need to produce the following pieces of work:

1. The results of a survey of your class’s shopping habits (individual)
   
   
2. A list of OK and not-OK brand names and a report explaining the reasons behind your list, plus recommendations to your classmates (group)
   
   
3. Presentation of report to class (group)
   
   
4. A self-evaluation (individual).