October+World+Hunger+Awareness

 October is World Hunger Awareness Month at Philo Magnet Academy Check out this website for some good information for teaching World Hunger. [] A good way to introduce your students to the concept of hunger and starvation around the world is using an Anticipation Guide. As an Activating Strategy, give students the guide and allow them to answer the before questions using their prior knowledge. The second page of the Anticipation Guide includes the answers along with the statistics. Have the students mark the correct answers in the after column and rewrite the incorrect statements. Activating Strategy #2 For just a moment, we are going to pretend like this class represents the entire population of the world. The people in the United States make up about 6% of the world population, so 2 people stand up. You two represent everyone in the United States. Now how would all of the rest of you feel if these two people came around at lunch time, ate their lunches, and then proceeded to eat the lunches of half of the people sitting down? Would you think this was unfair? Would you think this was greedy? I know that sounds ridiculous, but that's what happens with the supply of resources on our globe. The United States consumes about 40% of the world's resources (food, fabric, manufacturing material, fuel and other commodities). Of the 6 billion plus people living on the planet:


 * At least 3/4 billion people suffer from malnutrition
 * About 50,000 die each day from malnutrition
 * About 200,000,000 under the age of 5 are underweight
 * Millions of children die each year from diseases of poverty
 * One child dies every 2 seconds of this issues

Journal Writing Assignment: Use 25 words that describe what food means to you then write a paragraph summarizing your main ideas.

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As a summary to this introduction, have your class watch this short video on World Hunger Awareness.