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Goals - National Council of Social Studies
- Social studies programs should include experiences that provide for the study of people, places, and environments.
- Social studies programs should include experiences that provide for the study of how people create and change structures of power, authority, and governance.
- Social studies programs should include experiences that provide for the study of how people organize for the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.
Facts and Figures (from America’s Second harvest Survey 2001)
- 31 million Americans are unsure of where their next meal will come from .
39% are children under 18 years old.
- 11% are seniors.
- 45% white
- 35% African-American
- 17% Hispanic
- 62% female
- 39% of client households have one or more adults working.
- 64% of client households have less than $17,000 in annual income.
- 45% choose between food and utilities.
- 36% choose between food and paying the rent or mortgage.
- 28% choose between medical care and food.
Resources - See the Resource Sheet
Action Steps
To organize your “Hunger Banquet”…
- Educate students on hunger issues in your community and North Carolina. Use the lesson ideas that follow to focus on your grade level’s citizenship goals.
- Brainstorm ideas on how to distribute collected food. Research the local food distribution agencies in your community (You may use the website resource
sheet). Decide as a class the best way to distribute the collected food after the
“Hunger Banquet”.
- Select a date and advertise around your school and community. Allow students to advertise using flyers, posters, and maybe even local news media!
- Have students prepare information to share with the attendees. Students can create PowerPoint presentations, create simple children’s books to read about hunger, share mobile projects about hunger, explain posters or charts they have created including hunger facts, and create a quiz about hunger to give to guests.
- Assign different roles for the banquet. Some students will need to be at the door with collection bins keeping track of “admission tickets (donated canned food). Others will need to be ready to present their information about hunger. Some students will need to serve their North Carolina cookies (bake these a few days before the banquet and allow students to decorate the three regions with different physical features using icing and candies).
- Enjoy the banquet. Enjoy educating parents and community members about hunger and the ways they can make a difference.
- Sort and distribute collected food. Have students sort, graph, and arrange to distribute the food collected from the banquet.
- Have students write thank-you notes to those who attended the banquet. Have students thank the people in their families and communities who came to the banquet.
Donation Ideas for Food
- Food Bank of NC
- Second Harvest Food Bank
- Inter-Faith Food Shuttle
- MANNA Food Bank
Evaluation
Ask students to evaluate the process of researching, planning, and hosting the “Hunger Banquet”. You may allow older students to use a free-write format. For younger students, generate a self-assessment for them to complete on how the event went as well as what they learned during the process. |
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