Grades:
11
12
To have students present checks and explain their assessment criteria for making a $500 donation to the organization of their choice.
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8
Individuals and nations who struggle with poverty and hunger do so as a result of many factors, including cost of living, environmental impact, societal pressures and social service support that are available.
Subjects
Language Arts
Philanthropy
Social Studies
Arts Education
Grades:
6
7
8
Students explore the causes and impacts of hunger, and how hunger differs depending on location.
What is a famine and what are its effects? Students read and write an "interior monologue" response.
Grades:
6
7
8
Students conduct and compile research about hunger.
Grades:
6
7
8
Students learn about food scarcity through a particular country's story.
Grades:
6
7
8
Students will learn about overpopulation and its connection to hunger.
Grades:
6
7
8
Students will learn about the similarities and differences of the hunger situation in the two different classifications of countries: industrialized nations and developing nations.
Grades:
6
7
8
Students will learn about federal social service programs over time and SNAP, the food assistance program.
Grades:
6
7
8
Students experience working and unemployment through a very simplified role play.