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We strongly recommend you use the Boomerang Box "Introduction to Trade" curriculum packet to help your students prepare for their Boomerang Box Jr. visit. The curriculum packet is available for grades K-3, 4-5, and 6-12 and can be obtained through the Boomerang Box web site. Each "Introduction to Trade" packet contains four single-class lesson plans on the following subjects:
- Why do we trade?
- How do we trade?
- Where do we trade?
- Using the Boomerang Box web site
If you have already gone through the "Introduction to Trade" materials with your students and want to do a little additional preparation before Boomerang Box Jr. arrives at your school, you might want to consider the following activities.
Have your students create postage stamp artwork representing their home, school, or town!
Have them bring their artwork to the Jr. Box for their visit. We will collect and post new student artwork on a corkboard on the inside of the container so that students at other schools can see it. The Boomerang Box web site provides a "gallery" of other students' artwork that may help inspire your students.
Once you are logged on to the Boomerang Box web site with your students, here are several other activities you and your students can do:
- Ask your students to determine where the Boomerang Box is and what it is carrying.
- Help them find the Boomerang Box's current location on a map.
- Help them use a world map to trace the Boomerang Box's journey since the beginning of the school year.
- Ask them to read (or read aloud to them) the current "Trade Topic" on the web site. Ask them to complete one of the exercises suggested at the end of the trade topic.
- For 4th and 5th grade students, have them read the current "People Profile" on the web site. Download the case study story problem that accompanies the people profile and lead students through it. (These story problems come with complete teaching notes.)
- Have students read (or read aloud to them) the information about Boomerang Box Jr. on the web site.
- Ask students to prepare one or two questions each about international trade or the Boomerang Box to ask the APL representative during their visit to Boomerang Box Jr.
Before your visit to Boomerang Box Jr., you might also want to review the "What to Expect" fact sheet that is included with this packet. It provides information about the Jr. Box itself as well as how students' visits to the Jr. Box will be structured. You may want to go over the logistics of the visit with students: that they will go inside Boomerang Box Jr., which will look like a classroom on the inside; that they will see a video; that they will have time to ask questions; and that they will be expected to complete a worksheet while in the Jr. Box.
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