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Classroom Activities
Welcome to the Classroom Activities section of the site. The materials you find here have been developed by educators, with sponsorship by the Alabama 4-H Program in conjuction with Universities Fighting World Hunger at Auburn University, The Cape Breton University Children's Rights Centre, and the Canadian International Development Agency. Please take the time to check out their sites and materials.
Try out the lessons with your students, and remember to let us know what you think, and also your students' opinions. If you like what you see, make sure to tell us - and if you have suggestions for improvements, your comments would be very welcome.
All the best from the Youth Outreach Team.
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Molly’s World Lesson Plan - World Food Day 2012
Subjects: Social Studies
Critical Thinking, Collaborative Learning
Critical Thinking, Collaborative Learning
This lesson tells the story of Molly – a girl who receives a daily WFP meal at school –to spark a conversation on hunger in your classroom this World Food Day.
Molly’s World Lesson Plan - World Food Day 2012 - for CANADA -
Subjects: Social Studies
Critical Thinking, Collaborative Learning
Critical Thinking, Collaborative Learning
This lesson tells the story of Molly – a girl who receives a daily WFP meal at school –to spark a conversation on hunger in your classroom this World Food Day.
Bring Molly’s World Lesson Plan into the Classroom
Subjects: Social Studies
Critical Thinking, Collaborative Learning
In 2011, WFP gave Molly a small camera to film her life. This lesson plan weaves together her videos to spark a conversation in your classroom about the challenges and opportunities connecting girls across the globe.
Where in the World - Horn of Africa
Age Range: Grades 5-7
Subject: Social Studies
Map Skills, Coordinates, Relative and Absolute Location, Critical Thinking, Research, Writing to Inform
This research activity is part of a geography-themed series: "Where in the World." The activities are designed to be covered over a series of lessons. The end result will be an understanding of hunger issues in a particular country, as well as an understanding that hunger is a global issue which affects countries in all areas of the planet.
In addition, students will gain an understanding of the current situation in the Horn of Africa and learn how WFP is working in that region of the world.
Through research and the application of mapping skills, students will gain an understanding of the problems of hunger and poverty around the world, the strategies being employed to combat the effects of these problems, and the efforts being made to create sustainable solutions.
The Hunger Obstacle Course
Age Range: Grades 7-9
Subject: Social Studies & Language Arts
Collaborative Learning and Problem-solving
Hunger affects populations both globally and domestically. Students should be aware of the obstacles to food security and good levels of nutrition that many people face every day. Encouraging students to find solutions to these problems heightens their awareness of the issues, and enables them to realize that members of a community can help each other in concrete ways. This activity engages participants in creative problem solving though a time-limited process of generating solutions to different hunger-related problems. Small groups of students circulate around the room and write down solutions to each of the hunger obstacles.
Playing with Decimals
Age Range: Grades 4-6
Subject: Math
Addition & Subtraction of Decimals, Critical Thinking
Students will practice addition and subtraction of decimals while considering the small domestic budgets of people in developing countries.
The Hunger Tree
Age Range: Grades 4-6
Subjects: Social Studies, Language Arts/English
Critical Thinking, Making Connections, Visualisation of Problems, Collaborative Learning
This activity uses the image of a tree to help students understand the problem of “hunger” that may seem overwhelming and impossible to change at first. This activity helps young people think through the problem and why it occurs. They also think together about actions that can be taken to help reduce the problem of hunger.
The Millennium Development Goals
Age Range: Grades 7-9
Subjects: Social Studies
Critical Thinking, Collaborative Learning
Eradicating hunger, part of the MDG No.1, is the key to development. While people are hungry, all other development activities are thwarted. The hungry can concentrate little other than their next meal. Hungry mothers give birth to hungry children, who, if they live long enough, grow into hungry adults.
Web of Connections
Age Range: Grades 7-9
Subjects: Social Studies
Critical Thinking, Collaborative Learning, and Problem-solving
This activity will help foster an understanding of hunger in the context of other social issues. After participating in this activity, group members should be able to more effectively speak about the ways in which hunger is connected to other issues in the world which also impact the plight of those in poverty. Using a ball of string and cards that represent these various issues, group members will construct a “web” of connections between the given topics.
Where in the World - Africa
Age Range: Grades 5-7
Subject: Social Studies
Map Skills, Coordinates, Relative and Absolute Location, Critical Thinking, Research, Writing to Inform
This research activity is part of a geography-themed series: "Where in the World." The activities are designed to be covered over a series of lessons. The end result will be an understanding of hunger issues in a particular country, as well as an understanding that hunger is a global issue which affects countries in all areas of the planet.
Through research and the application of mapping skills, students will gain an understanding of the problems of hunger and poverty around the world, the strategies being employed to combat the effects of these problems, and the efforts being made to create sustainable solutions.
Where in the World - South America
Age Range: Grades 5-7
Subject: Social Studies
Map Skills, Coordinates, Relative and Absolute Location, Critical Thinking, Research, Writing to Inform
This research activity is part of a geography-themed series: "Where in the World." The activities are designed to be covered over a series of lessons. The end result will be an understanding of hunger issues in a particular country, as well as an understanding that hunger is a global issue which affects countries in all areas of the planet.
Through research and the application of mapping skills, students will gain an understanding of the problems of hunger and poverty around the world, the strategies being employed to combat the effects of these problems, and the efforts being made to create sustainable solutions.
Where in the World - Asia
Age Range: Grades 5-7
Subject: Social Studies
Map Skills, Coordinates, Relative and Absolute Location, Critical Thinking, Research, Writing to Inform
This research activity is part of a geography-themed series: "Where in the World." The activities are designed to be covered over a series of lessons. The end result will be an understanding of hunger issues in a particular country, as well as an understanding that hunger is a global issue which affects countries in all areas of the planet.
Through research and the application of mapping skills, students will gain an understanding of the problems of hunger and poverty around the world, the strategies being employed to combat the effects of these problems, and the efforts being made to create sustainable solutions.
Where in the World - Central America
Age Range: Grades 5-7
Subject: Social Studies
Map Skills, Coordinates, Relative and Absolute Location, Critical Thinking, Research, Writing to Inform
This research activity is part of a geography-themed series: "Where in the World." The activities are designed to be covered over a series of lessons. The end result will be an understanding of hunger issues in a particular country, as well as an understanding that hunger is a global issue which affects countries in all areas of the planet.
Through research and the application of mapping skills, students will gain an understanding of the problems of hunger and poverty around the world, the strategies being employed to combat the effects of these problems, and the efforts being made to create sustainable solutions.
How'd that get on my plate?
Age Range: Grades 4-6, Ages 10-12
Subject: Social Studies
Research, Critical Thinking, Map Reading
Where does our food come from? And more importantly, why does it travel so far to reach us? This activity illustrates the interdependency of our global food system, and encourages critical thought and reflection. A trip to the supermarket is often a voyage around the world!
Introduction to Food Force
Age Range: Grades 4-7, Ages 9-13
Subject: Social Studies
Collaboration, Critical Thinking, Note Taking, Presentation Skills
In groups, students will play the Food Force game, each group focusing on a particular mission. Each group will make a brief presentation to the class describing the mission they were assigned, focusing on the particular needs each mission fulfills.
What to do about Malnutrition
Age Range: Grades 7-9, Ages 11-14
Subject: English
Research Skills, Collaborative Learning, Presentational Skills, Writing to Explain
Students will create a mock United Nations conference where they will address the issue of child malnutition and how it relates to children’s rights, based on study the Millennium Development Goals, and of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
My Travelling Breakfast
Age Range: Grades 4-6, Ages 10-12
Subject: Language Arts
Creative writing, poetry
Students will write a fictional, illustrated story in the first or third person, or an illustrated poem animating (personifying) their food’s journey from where it began to where it ended.
This activity can be used as a follow up to “How’d that get on my plate?”
Hungry for words...Logistics
Age Range: Grades 4-6, Ages 10-12
Subject: Language Arts
Comprehension, Vocabulary
Students will practice addition and subtraction of decimals while considering the small domestic budgets of people in developing countries.
Eat Your Way to School
Age Range: Grades 7-9, Ages 13-15
Subject: Math, Social Studies & Language Arts
Mean, Median and Mode, Critical Thinking, Writing to Summarize
Students will discover the impact oWFP School Feeding Programmes have on children and youth in developing countries by comparing attendance records of these schools before and after implementation. Studetns will then reflect upon ways in which School Feeding addresses children's rights with reference to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Moving Food
Age Range: Grades 4-6, Ages 10-12
Subject: Math
Addition & Subtraction of Decimals, Critical Thinking
Students will consider the different speeds of transportation used for delivering food assistance, and make choices as to which mode of transport is best suited to different situations.
Stone Soup
Stone Soup is a traditional folktale found in many parts of the world. In some versions the main character convinces people that they can make soup from a rusty old nail and sometimes it’s an axe which is the chief ingredient! But whether it’s a stone or a nail or an axe, the story helps us to think about our place in the world. This new version of the story was written especially for World Food Day 2008 and focuses on ways that we can help other people.
Fighting Hunger the Rights Way - English
Fighting Hunger the Rights Way is designed to coincide with prescribed learning outcomes for English, math, science and social studies in grades 4-6 and 7-9. This format provides teachers the opportunity to teach about children’s rights and world malnutrition while also covering learning outcomes.
Fighting Hunger the Rights Way - French
Le programme Lutter contre la faim à l’aide des droits est conçu pour correspondre aux résultats d’apprentissage en français, en mathématiques, en sciences et en études sociales de la 4e à la 6e année et de la 7e à la 9e année. Ce format donne aux enseignants l’occasion d’enseigner des connaissances sur les droits de l’enfant et la malnutrition dans le monde tout en couvrant les résultats d’apprentissage.
