Lyddie Unit 3 NYS Common Core Curriculum Module 2, Unit 3

1. DO NOW
Entry Task – Notice & wonder
• Look at two pictures
• What do you notice?
• What do you wonder?

5. Lyddie
Working Today
From the pictures:
• What questions do you have that would be
GOOD research questions?

6. Lyddie
Learning Objectives
I can identify and understand the parts of
the research process.
I can determine the difference between an
effective and ineffective research
questions.

7. Lyddie
Working Today
Researcher’s Roadmap Chart:
• Short research project
• Final project for the module!
• Focus: modern-day garment industry
• Read along as we read chart allowed…

8. Lyddie
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Performance Task: Brochure
• Let’s read it over
• Highlight important parts of this
assignment

9. Lyddie
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Performance Task: Brochure
• Model: “iCare about the iPhone”

10. Look in your pocket!
Do you have an iPhone?
Want to know how it is made?
Apple does NOT make iPhones
….but Foxconn, a huge company in China, does!

11. Foxconn workers stand for
long hours and work with
dangerous chemicals.
Foxconn workers sometimes
work 90 hours a week.
(2x the time you spend in
school)
Foxconn workers get $1.78 an
hour – less than 10% of the
money you pay goes to the
person who helped make it.
Some employee suicides
may be due to
repetitive, isolating
work.
Foxconn provides
apartments for workers, bu
they have to sleep with
many people in each room.
Things are improving…
• Recently Foxconn stopped workers from working overtime but
did not cut pay.
• Workers say they are thankful for the job and want more money.

12. The truth is, Apple isn’t the only company that uses Foxconn
products. Many major brands do!
If you stopped buying iPhones, the workers would not have
jobs, so don’t stop buying. DO start pressuring.
Find out more.
Write a letter to Apple
saying that you care
about how iPhones are made.
YOUR VOICE MATTERS.

13. Duhigg, Charles and David Barboza. “In China, Human Costs Are
Built into an iPad.” The New York Times. Web. 25 January 2012.
Independent Investigation of Apple Suppplier, Foxconn Report Highlights.
Rep.N.p.: Fair Labor Organization, March
2012. Web.
http://www.fairlabor.org/sites/default/files/coduments/reports/
foxconn_investigation_report.pdt
Smith, Catharine. “Foxconn Working Conditions 2012: Company Cuts
Hours, Employees Ask Why.” The Huffington Post.
TheHuffingtonPost.com, 30 Mar. 2012. Web. 06 May 2013.
“The Cost of Making an iPhone.” Investopedia, Web. 4 September 2012.
Weir, Bill. “Apple’s Chinese Factories: Exclusive.” ABC News. ABC News
Network, 21 Feb. 2012. Web. 06 May 2013.

14. Lyddie
Working Today
Performance Task: Brochure
• How is the “iPhone” model related to
working conditions?
• How does it relate to yesterday’s class?

15. Lyddie
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Researcher’s Roadmap Chart:
• START: with the overarching question:
What are the working conditions like in
the electronics industry?
Find the card & put it on the map!!
**Psst….it might be under YOUR chair!

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Working Today
Researcher’s Roadmap Chart:
• CONTINUE: Step 2:
I wanted to find the basic overview of the
process of making electronics before I began
thinking about working conditions.
Find the card & put it on the map!!

17. Lyddie
Working Today
Researcher’s Roadmap Chart:
• CONTINUE: Step 3:
The first website I went to was called Investopedia. I decided
that it was a credible site, and I skimmed it to find some
information. From there, I found out that many of our
electronic products were made by a company called Foxconn
in China and, in fact, they make the iPhones. So I now had a
more specific question: What is it like to work in a Foxconn
factory?

18. Lyddie
Working Today
Researcher’s Roadmap Chart:
• CONTINUE: Step 4:
I also decided that “electronic” was very broad, so I
narrowed it down to making iPhones because I was very
interested in that and I thought it would be a good case
study – a detailed example that has been studied a lot
and can help me infer about the larger subject of
electronics.

19. Lyddie
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Researcher’s Roadmap Chart:
• CONTINUE: Step 5:
Then I began to search some more. On the first
Website, the author talked about a report on a TV
show on ABC called Nightline. I decided a national
TV show would be a credible source, so I went
there first.

20. Lyddie
Working Today
Researcher’s Roadmap Chart:
• CONTINUE: Step 6:
I skimmed through the slide show based on the TV
report and found some of the information for
which I was looking. I didn’t watch the whole TV
show because I was just skimming.

21. Lyddie
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Researcher’s Roadmap Chart:
• FINISH?
Step 7:
Then I stopped and reassessed. I had lots of negative
information, but this gave me more questions:
• Was there anything positive about working in these
factories?
• Why are people working there?
• Has Foxconn changed anything since these reports
came out?

22. Lyddie
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Sorting Questions:
• AT THE CLOSED WINDOW partners
• Practice with MY research on iPhones
• Read & sort each question
• Effective question?
• Ineffective question?

23. Lyddie
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Check your answers – EFFECTIVE:
•
Who makes the iPhone in China?
•
Does more than one company make the iPhone?
•
How many hours does the average factory employee
work each week?
•
What is a “living wage” in China? Does the iPhone
factory pay a living wage?
•
Who monitors the working conditions in the iPhone
factories?

24. Lyddie
Working Today
Check your answers – EFFECTIVE:
•
Has Apple does anything recently to improve the working
conditions in the iPhone factories?
•
Do children work in any iPhone factories?
•
Can iPhone factory workers form unions?
•
How much does it cost to make an iPhone? How much of
that cost is labor?

25. Lyddie
Working Today
Researcher’s Notebook
• Pick ONE of the Effective questions we
just listed
• Write it in Part II of the notebook (model)

26. Lyddie
Homework
Homework!
• Independent Reading Book (15-20 min)