https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1 en-us 2023-04-16 22:11:17 UTC 2026-01-29 19:56:27 UTC hello@padlet.com lizmcginn https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2556030713 1. How do we get what we need from our environment?
2. How do we make choices about what we want and need? 
3. What is the difference between a good and a service?
4. How do you acquire things that you want or need?
5. What happens when someone cannot get the things they need? 


]]> 2023-04-16 22:26:13 UTC https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2556030713 lizmcginn https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2556030896 1. Why do people experience housing insecurity and homelessness?
2. What is housing insecurity/homelessness?
3. What is the impact of experiencing homelessness on adults and children?
4. How can we end homelessness?
5. What is being done to combat housing insecurity?]]> 2023-04-16 22:26:43 UTC https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2556030896 lizmcginn https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2556030915 1. How do hunger and food insecurity affect people?
2. How can we reduce hunger and food insecurity?
3. Who should be responsible for addressing hunger and food insecurity?
4. Why is there hunger and food insecurity in the United States?]]> 2023-04-16 22:26:48 UTC https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2556030915 lizmcginn https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2556030944 1. How can we help people who don't have enough to eat in our community?
2. How can we help people without a home in our community?
3. Who can we ask to help us make a change?
4. How can we make others aware and help out?
5. What information do others and us need to take action?

3. How can we 

]]> 2023-04-16 22:26:52 UTC https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2556030944 lizmcginn https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2557466535 Read about the differences between needs and wants.]]> 2023-04-17 19:04:46 UTC https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2557466535 lizmcginn https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2557469696 This book explores the critical difference between wants and needs, and how it relates to money.]]> 2023-04-17 19:07:34 UTC https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2557469696 lizmcginn https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2557492114 After a fire destroys their home and possessions, Rosa, her mother, and her grandmother save their pennies to buy a big, comfortable chair that all three can enjoy. ]]> 2023-04-17 19:27:48 UTC https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2557492114 lizmcginn https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2557499135 Lily wants many new things. But how many of these things does she need? ]]> 2023-04-17 19:34:48 UTC https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2557499135 lizmcginn https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2557502736 A little animal has to decide if he wants it or needs in this humorous, fictional story.]]> 2023-04-17 19:38:28 UTC https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2557502736 lizmcginn https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2557504740 Jeremy is told his family cannot afford to buy a pair of shoes that popular. He is made fun of by others for wearing second-hand shoes and manages to find a pair he wants at a thrift store that is too small. Jeremy gives his coveted shoes away to a boy who needs them more. ]]> 2023-04-17 19:40:27 UTC https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2557504740 lizmcginn https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2557761496 Homelessness is a problem affecting millions of people worldwide. Read about different perspectives on this social issue.]]> 2023-04-18 01:07:38 UTC https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2557761496 lizmcginn https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2557765309 This nonfiction picture book introduces the topics of homelessness and poverty to young readers.]]> 2023-04-18 01:10:37 UTC https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2557765309 lizmcginn https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2557770367 With her mother’s help, a young girl uses her imagination to overcome her anxiety and adjust to a women’s shelter.

 

 

]]> 2023-04-18 01:14:45 UTC https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2557770367 lizmcginn https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2557776169 Two children become homeless as they move with their parents to a motel, a shelter, and finally to another, more permanent home. ]]> 2023-04-18 01:19:12 UTC https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2557776169 lizmcginn https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2557782381 I See You is a wordless picture book depicting a homeless woman not seen by everyone around her — except for a little boy.]]> 2023-04-18 01:23:53 UTC https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2557782381 lizmcginn https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2557787509 Agnes helps Chelsea and Leo solve a problem. Can they find a way to help her

 

]]> 2023-04-18 01:27:30 UTC https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2557787509 lizmcginn https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2557794002 The Salvation Army is an essential international organization.]]> 2023-04-18 01:32:15 UTC https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2557794002 lizmcginn https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2557796266 A true story about compassion and bravery as a girl and her community in South Korea help deliver rice to starving people in North Korea.]]> 2023-04-18 01:34:06 UTC https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2557796266 lizmcginn https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2557800180 This is a beautiful book about two girls who are friends and have different talents. One girl notices the other is food insecure and tries to help her. This book is unique because it shows how someone close to you can be in need in a subtle way. ]]> 2023-04-18 01:37:29 UTC https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2557800180 lizmcginn https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2557828667 Lulu’s story personalizes the struggles of children experiencing food insecurity and hunger.]]> 2023-04-18 02:02:25 UTC https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2557828667 lizmcginn https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2557836646 In this wordless story, a boy anonymously shares his snack with a homeless man, inspiring a cycle of goodwill. ]]> 2023-04-18 02:07:49 UTC https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2557836646 lizmcginn https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2557845768 Poverty and Hunger discusses the questions "What is poverty and hunger? How do they affect people in countries all over the world?" It helps children begin to understand the way others struggle with these issues and learn about ways they can help.]]> 2023-04-18 02:14:45 UTC https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2557845768 lizmcginn https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2557864841 Will Allen is no ordinary farmer. When he looked at an abandoned lot in Milwaukee, he saw a vast table big enough to feed the whole world.]]> 2023-04-18 02:29:29 UTC https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2557864841 lizmcginn https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2557870752 In United Way, readers will discover how this organization contributes positively to the world.]]> 2023-04-18 02:33:42 UTC https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2557870752 lizmcginn https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2558823429 This book is about a boy and his grandmother taking the bus to volunteer at a soup kitchen. It shows the power of being grateful and positive in your thinking through text and illustrations. CJ’s perspective is that of a kid who sees the result of poverty and people who may not have the time, investment, or power to improve their streets and comments negatively, not understanding the reasons behind the dirt he sees. His Nanna points out that there is beauty where they are, and he notices a rainbow and other details. As he arrives, he feels happy, as he is welcome, wanted, and valuable and has built relationships with people at the soup kitchen. It is an excellent book to show how to make change through individual action and responsibility without talking down to children. 

]]> 2023-04-18 15:46:49 UTC https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2558823429 lizmcginn https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2558855247 When Anna uses her tzedakah money for an act of kindness, she realizes she and her mother have something special in common after all.]]> 2023-04-18 16:06:53 UTC https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2558855247 lizmcginn https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2558860980 A boy spends the day with Uncle Willie in the soup kitchen where he works preparing and serving food for the hungry]]> 2023-04-18 16:11:19 UTC https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2558860980 lizmcginn https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2558864698 A lyrical picture book debut from Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman and illustrator Loren Long]]> 2023-04-18 16:14:05 UTC https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2558864698 lizmcginn https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2558876110 Chef opens soup kitchens ]]> 2023-04-18 16:22:27 UTC https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2558876110 lizmcginn https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2558876653 2023-04-18 16:22:41 UTC https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2558876653 lizmcginn https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2558876783 Claire Babineaux-Fontenot is the CEO of Feeding America. That is a charity that works to end hunger. It has a network of food banks in the United States. Last year, these food banks provided more than 6 billion meals.]]> 2023-04-18 16:22:48 UTC https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2558876783 lizmcginn https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2558876907 2023-04-18 16:22:55 UTC https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2558876907 lizmcginn https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2558877034 author shares a book about living on a bus ]]> 2023-04-18 16:23:01 UTC https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2558877034 lizmcginn https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2558877226 Though Hailey Fort is only 9 years old, she has already done more to help the homeless and needy than many of us have. This young girl spends her free time building mobile shelters for the homeless, and even grows food and provides toiletries for them, too!]]> 2023-04-18 16:23:11 UTC https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2558877226 lizmcginn https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2558877335 2023-04-18 16:23:18 UTC https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2558877335 lizmcginn https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2558877507 Bicycles, toys, and movies are fun to have. But people don't need them to survive. ]]> 2023-04-18 16:23:27 UTC https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2558877507 lizmcginn https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2558878529 2023-04-18 16:24:19 UTC https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2558878529 lizmcginn https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2558878802 2023-04-18 16:24:32 UTC https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2558878802 lizmcginn https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2558878886 Discuss community service with Heather Cardinale and Sabrina Charles-Cintron. Students will explore the steps to volunteer in their local communities. Meet volunteers from a neighborhood food pantry and farm ]]> 2023-04-18 16:24:37 UTC https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2558878886 lizmcginn https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2558879006 2023-04-18 16:24:41 UTC https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2558879006 lizmcginn https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2558879224 author Brenda Reeves Sturgis reads Still a Family: A Story about Homelessness about a family experiencing homelessness. In this story, a father lives in a men's shelter while a mother and daughter live in the women's shelter. However, despite their situation, the family still spends special time together. ]]> 2023-04-18 16:24:52 UTC https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2558879224 lizmcginn https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2558879308 2023-04-18 16:24:55 UTC https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2558879308 lizmcginn https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2558879419 Cole Elementary School in Antioch, Tennessee, is trying to help its students and families by providing community refrigerators.]]> 2023-04-18 16:25:00 UTC https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2558879419 lizmcginn https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2558879816 1. Children create a two-sided artistic collage of drawings, words, and cut-out pictures of items that are special to them that they want or need.
2. Children take turns acting out scripted and unscripted scenes from "Those Shoes" and then share how they felt as different characters. Students then share their life experiences and how the characters could have acted differently.
3. After reading "A Chair for my Mother," children create a personal map (brainstorm) asking, "What is important to me?" and explore how they want to help the world and causes to help with their community.]]> 2023-04-18 16:25:18 UTC https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2558879816 lizmcginn https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2558879919 1. Children discuss homelessness and sketch what a homeless person looks like to them, including their belongings and a setting. Read "Home" and discuss if there the similarities and differences between their drawing and the character's situation in the book. What surprised them? Have them make another sketch of what homelessness can look like. 
2. As the teacher reads, "I See you", the teacher pauses after reading a page, and students quickly sketch what happened on the page on an 8-part storyboard in one minute. Students retell the story after and write a caption for each picture. The storyboard can be cut up and made into a book.
3. Partners pick a fact on homelessness they have learned and create a small poster. The poster is uploaded to a slideshow to educate the other grades in the school. Students can go from class to class to present. ]]> 2023-04-18 16:25:23 UTC https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2558879919 lizmcginn https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2558879986 1. Children create a character x-ray of Maddie and Sophie, comparing and contrasting them after reading "Maddie's Fridge".
2. Create a class fact sheet to email families about neighborhood community fridges accompanied by a map and actions families can take to contribute. 
3. Students create questions to ask a representative from the local food pantry and ask them over a Zoom interview. This is with a lens to organizing a food drive.]]> 2023-04-18 16:25:26 UTC https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2558879986 lizmcginn https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2558880068 1. Create posters around the school to collect non-perishable items for a food drive. Collect, graph, and organize the delivery of items to the food pantry. 
2. In a commercial style, film a class announcement to collect items to create toiletry kits for a local shelter. Children will share items that can be donated and how and send them to all grades and families. Students will include the date, time, and place for volunteers to assemble the toiletry kits.
3. Students read and make a chili recipe for a local community fridge. They put it in containers, make notes, and deliver it to the fridge (if walkable). ]]> 2023-04-18 16:25:31 UTC https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2558880068 lizmcginn https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2559288469 2023-04-18 23:45:02 UTC https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2559288469 lizmcginn https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2564424398 2023-04-23 02:09:32 UTC https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2564424398 lizmcginn https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2564424593 2023-04-23 02:10:30 UTC https://padlet.com/lizmcginn/d826y8m8t0jcfhc1/wish/2564424593