Christian Aid: Trading Game

Trading Game is one of the popular and highly interactive games for classroom use created by Christian Aid. The Trading Game helps to show how trade affects the prosperity of a country – both positively and negatively. Pupils are able to experience first-hand how current world trading systems are helping to maintain the gap between rich areas of the world (e.g. USA and the EU states) and poor nations.

It is a fun and exciting introduction to the issues of trade, providing a simple outline of some very complex relationships.

The Trading Game is designed to be flexible and adaptable. It may be used as part of a topic in Social Studies/Geography/Modern Studies or RME or some forms of Social Education. Equally, it is suitable for as part of an interdisciplinary learning experience.

There are no specific links to CfE Experiences and Outcomes, but the game is an ideal activity within a lesson/programme of study, and links to Curriculum for Excellence can be readily made.

Downloadable teachers’ notes include full instructions on how the games may be used in the classroom.