Integrated Study of the 2nd Junior High School (IS) “Trade game”

～Used 1st year learning to deepen a recognition of the current world situation ～

The 2nd year students conducted “Trade game” by inviting lecturers to an integrated study class. “Trade Game” was intended to “show the mechanism of world trade and economy and to realize the problems and tasks (income gap between North and South, economic assistance, industrial waste and environmental destruction etc) that need to be solved”. Students were divided into groups of 5 in each class. The rules were only “No violence and no stealing”. Each group was delivered one bag. They went to sell the specified goods which they made from the contents in the bag at the market. Each group’s contents in the bag were different.

From the beginning, each group negotiated and dealt actively, words for dealing filled the classroom instantly. Some made the specified goods silently, some negotiated, and some spied on other groups. They shared their roles automatically, some groups acted just like a real nation.

Lecturers commented at the end of the class, “What is going on in this game is exactly what happens in the real world. It is important to use your imagination when you act toward it.”
Some students said after the class, “We want to continue this game more.”

How will Sendai Nika Junior High School students act in the real world? We are looking forward to their future growth.