Bulk commercial products move at lowest cost by water. The following products all are major items in today's world trade: crude petroleum, cotton, coffee, corn, copper, cacao, cane sugar. These items, except some petroleum, are mostly produced in so-called "developing nations." How do these products reach world markets from where they originate? One method that we have found helps students sort the "fact" from the "fiction" is for them to ask the following questions whenever they are confronted with a new statement or so-called fact: Have students work in teams and research one of the seven. Those nations leading the world in the production of each should be placed on a world map, including their share (percentage) of the world's total. Bar or pie graphs might be used. Have the teams research the leading consumer nations of their product. Can they determine by what routes, and by what means their product reaches its major markets? How are these products processed into the final from in which they are used? Where does this processing that place? What share of the final cost to the consumer do those who grow or mine the product receive?