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A website that provides answers to 'Frequently Asked Questions' and statistics about hunger.

Engagements:
Students will choose one fact or statistic to post on Edmodo and then write an entry describing their thoughts and feelings on their chosen fact. Students will comment on peer's posts before we have a whole group discussion the next day in class.
Students will analyze the fairness and justice in the daily challenges faced by those affected by poverty.

Top 10 Statistics:
http://www.wfp.org/hunger/stats

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Every day too many men and women across the globe struggle to feed their children a nutritious meal. In a world where we produce enough food to feed everyone, 815 million people - one in nine - still go to bed on an empty stomach each night. Even more - one in three - suffer from some form of malnutrition.

Eradicating hunger and malnutrition is one of the great challenges of our time. Not only do the consequences of not enough - or the wrong - food cause suffering and poor health, they also slow progress in many other areas of development like education and employment.

In 2015 the global community adopted the 17 Global Goals for Sustainable Development to improve people's lives by 2030. Goal 2 - Zero Hunger - pledges to end hunger, achieve food security, improve nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture, and is the priority of the World Food Programme.

Every day, WFP and its partners work to bring us closer to a zero hunger world. With our humanitarian food assistance, we provide nutritious food to those in urgent need. Meanwhile our complementary programmes address the root causes of hunger, building the resilience of communities, so we don't need to keep saving the same lives each year.

The world has made great progress in reducing hunger: There are 216 million fewer hungry people than in 1990-92, despite a 1.9 billion increase in the world's population. But there is still a long way to go, and no one organization can achieve Zero Hunger if it works alone. If we want to see a world free of hunger by 2030, governments, citizens, civil society organizations and the private sector must collaborate to invest, innovate and create lasting solutions.

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Every day too many men and women across the globe struggle to feed their children a nutritious meal. In a world where we produce enough food to feed everyone, 815 million people - one in nine - still go to bed on an empty stomach each night.

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This map displays areas of the world that were the most undernourished in 2011. Students will have a copy of this map in front of them and on the Smart Board as we view and analyze the information presented on the map.

Discussion Prompts:
"Which countries have 'extremely low' numbers of undernourished people? Which have 'very high' numbers?"

Engagements:
Students will choose one of the books we have read thus far in the Poverty unit and locate the country it takes place at. They will locate that country on this map and determine the level of 'undernourishment' of that country. Students will then post on their individual Padlet page the book they chose, the country's percentage of undernourishment, and a brief comment about it - how they feel, their thoughts on this information, etc.

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An article from Wonderopolis that discusses hunger and malnutrition in our world. We will read this text together on the Smart Board, then students will use their own copy of the article to engage in a dialectal journal entry.

Engagements:
-Students will complete a dialectal journal entry in which they select statements/quotations from the article and ask questions, make comments, make connects, etc about those quotations.
-Students will pair up with a partner and share their journal entries before posting them on our class Edmodo page for all classmates to view and comment on.

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Does your stomach the second you get home? What do you hunger for? A piece of pizza left over from last night's dinner? A cookie? Maybe a healthy after-school snack?

Even after a good school lunch, many children get the urge to snack when they arrive home and get started on homework. For many of us, satisfying after-school hunger pains is as simple as opening the refrigerator.

For millions of people around the world, though, things aren't that easy. Hunger continues to be a problem faced by people everywhere, including people in your own . What would you do if your refrigerator and kitchen cabinets were empty?

Experts believe that there is enough food in the world today to feed everyone. Yet millions of people go to bed hungry every night because they don't have the food their bodies need. Not getting enough food to meet your body's minimum requirements for good health results in undernourishment .

Some people estimate there are as many as 925 million undernourished people around the world. (ongoing) undernourishment leads to malnutrition . This takes the form of extreme weight loss, growth, and infections and diseases.

Hunger has many causes. disasters and other major emergencies can often cause widespread hunger. However, these types of events usually trigger aid from around the world that can make hunger just a short-term problem.

Long-term hunger usually has deeper roots. Poverty, poor farming methods, economic crises, food distribution networks, and even governmental interference are some of the major causes of long-term, ongoing problems with hunger. There may be as many as 1 billion hungry people in the world suffering as a result of these types of issues.

People who live in developing countries, particularly in Asia and Africa, tend to struggle with hunger the most. Children, women, and people in communities are usually hit the hardest.

Although progress has been made in fighting hunger from time to time, the global economic downturn that began in 2008 has led to a marked increase in hunger . Today, one out of every seven people in the world does not have enough food to live a healthy life. This makes hunger and malnutrition the greatest risk to health in the world.

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Does your stomach the second you get home? What do you hunger for? A piece of pizza left over from last night's dinner? A cookie? Maybe a healthy after-school snack? Even after a good school lunch, many children get the urge to snack when they arrive home and get started on homework.

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A digital text from Unite for Literacy website that discusses ways to stay healthy by eating good foods, exercising, staying clean, and going to the doctor. Student will read this text in a small group setting.

Discussion Prompts: (prompts will be provided to each small group)
"Which of these things do you do to stay healthy?"
"What procedures of staying healthy may be difficult for children who are poor or homeless?"
"How does it make you feel knowing that some children can't stay healthy because they don't have the resources?"

Engagements:
-Students will read text in a small group setting with their peers and then respond to the prompts will peers. Students will collaborate and create a written response to these prompts to then share out with the rest of the class.

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Moving Windmills Video: William Kamkwamba - The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

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Moving Windmills Video: William Kamkwamba - The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

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We will view this 6-minute video as a whole class before comparing and contrasting the video to the story.

Discussion Prompts:
"How does William's story in this video compare to the story told in the text?"

Engagement:
Whole group discussion identifying the differences between video and text and discussing how the author's influence the way a story is told (multiple perspectives).

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William Kamkwamba's story is already out there as a book, a young readers book, a Kickstarter documentary film project, not only one but two TED Talks, and luckily for us, the six minute story in video form. A description of that story:

Enchanted by the workings of electricity as a boy, William had a goal to study science in Malawi's top boarding schools. But in 2002, his country was stricken with a famine that left his family's farm devastated and his parents destitute. Unable to pay the eighty-dollar-a-year tuition for his education, William was forced to drop out and help his family forage for food as thousands across the country starved and died.

Yet William refused to let go of his dreams. With nothing more than a fistful of cornmeal in his stomach, a small pile of once-forgotten science textbooks, and an armory of curiosity and determination, he embarked on a daring plan to bring his family a set of luxuries that only two percent of Malawians could afford and what the West considers a necessity-electricity and running water. Using scrap metal, tractor parts, and bicycle halves, William forged a crude yet operable windmill, an unlikely contraption and small miracle that eventually powered four lights, complete with homemade switches and a circuit breaker made from nails and wire. A second machine turned a water pump that could battle the drought and famine that loomed with every season.

Soon, news of William's magetsi a mphepo -his "electric wind"-spread beyond the borders of his home, and the boy who was once called crazy became an inspiration to those around the world.

We love wind turbines and really love William's story of drive and ingenuity. This is exactly what the kid should see. For more on Kamkwamba's work, visit WilliamKamkwamba.com and watch his two TED Talks.

Learn more offline...

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Moving Windmills: The William Kamkwamba story

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William Kamkwamba's story is already out there as a book, a young readers book, a Kickstarter documentary film project, not only one but two TED Talks, and luckily for us, the six minute story in video form.

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Based on a true story, William's village of Malawi is hit by a drought and their crops begin to fail. With this, they don't have enough money for food or school so now William spends his time at the library trying to find a way to bring electricity to his village. After reading, students will watch the "The Kid Should See This" video clip of the real William Kamkwamba.

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The Good Garden: How One Family Went from Hunger to Having Enough

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The Good Garden: How One Family Went from Hunger to Having Enough

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Based on a real story of a struggling family in Honduras, this text describes the challenges of relying on a farm to supply money and food. We will read this text and also read the nonfiction resources provided at the end of the book. We will begin to discuss ways we can help those in our community and our world by volunteering our time.

Engagements:
Students will vote for their favorite method of volunteering and helping out those in need (options presented at the end of text - volunteer at food bank, create school/classroom garden, organize a fundraiser, write the legislator).
Students will brainstorm other ways to help.

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The Good Garden: How One Family Went from Hunger to Having Enough (CitizenKid)

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The Good Garden: How One Family Went from Hunger to Having Enough (CitizenKid) [Milway, Katie Smith, Daigneault, Sylvie] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Good Garden: How One Family Went from Hunger to Having Enough (CitizenKid)

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Mimi's Village: And How Basic Health Care Transformed It

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Mimi's Village: And How Basic Health Care Transformed It

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A fiction story about a young girl named Mimi who lives in a poor village in Africa. Her family has no medical care in their village. During and after reading this text, discussion will be about global health, poverty in developing countries, and unsterilized water causing illnesses.

Discussion Prompts:
"Why is it a problem that Mimi let her sister drink water from the river?"
"Why doesn't Mimi's village have a doctor or a nurse to provide medical care?"
"How do you think Mimi feels as she walks with her family to the next village to see the doctor?"

Engagements:
Students will create a book trailer video for this text as the reflect on Mimi's perspective throughout the story. Students will use this as also a way to advertise for health care in poor countries. Video trailers will be posted on YouTube for a much broader audience

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A fiction text about Kevin, a new kid at school, stealing Rafael's lunch. We find out that Kevin lost his home in the California wildfires and now is left homeless (lives in a motel) and hungry - that's why he is stealing other kids' lunches! After reading this text, students will engage in small group discussions.

Discussion Prompts:
"Think back to a time you felt hungry...maybe it was on the school bus home after school... or maybe you feel hungry when you are waiting for dinner to be ready...how did you feel? What does 'hunger' feel like to you?"
"Do you think Kevin is wrong to steal lunches? If you were starving, would you steal food to make the hunger pains go away?"
"How would you handle this situation? Would you react like Rafael?"

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Amazon.com: The Lunch Thief: 9780884483113: Bromley, Anne C., Casilla, Robert: Books

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A fiction text about two best friends, Sofia and Maddi, that play together and go to school together. They have one big difference between them though, Sofia's fridge is filled with food, whereas Maddi's fridge only contains milk. Maddi's mother does not have enough money to have a full fridge of food and Maddi oftentimes goes hungry. After reading this text together, students will discuss the text then complete a journal entry/blog.

Discussion Prompts:
"How does it make you feel to hear that Maddi is saving what's left of the milk for her younger sibling? Is that fair for Maddi? Is that right?"
"Why does Maddi say, 'Please, don't tell anyone'?"
"What would you do if you were Sofia and just found out your best friend doesn't have enough money to buy food?"
"Has anything like this happened to you before?"

Engagements:
Students will complete a journal entry or blog describing what they would do if they went to their best friend's house and found out they had no food to eat. Students will write about how they would react, who they would tell, and how they might try to help their friend.

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Lois Brandt (Author), Vin Vogel (Author)

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Maddi’s Fridge [Brandt, Lois, Vogel, Vin] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Maddi’s Fridge