Every year, over two billion T-shirts are bought and sold around the world. But how are they made and what happens when we’re done with them? What is the environmental impact of all these T-shirts? What could we do differently? This activity can be paired with T-Shirt Map and Upcycle a T-Shirt.
Watch the video below about the life cycle of a T-shirt.
Discuss what surprised you and what you already knew about how clothes are made.
Divide students into groups. Each group will get an envelope with scrambled pictures showing how cotton becomes a t-shirt. Students glue the pictures down in order and share their findings with another group to compare their thinking.