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Lesson plan: Why are people hungry?

From the Making a Meal of It! online resource

Age group: 7 - 11

Aims:
To encourage children to appreciate that people in the world may go hungry because they do not have money to buy food or land to grow it on.

What to do:
If you have not already done so, now is a good time to run the lesson on 'Where does our food come from?'. This activity will help children to appreciate that most people in the UK get their food from shops and that they need money to do so, and that some people grow crops or keep livestock and so can feed themselves.

Now photocopy the worksheet entitled worksheet: Why are people hungry?, giving one set of statements to each group of four children. Ask groups to discuss each of the statements in turn and to say in their own words what they think that person is saying about why they are hungry. Pupils can then brainstorm their suggestions onto a class list. Suggestions might include: people are hungry because they have no money, they have no land, there is fighting in their country, they are not paid fairly for what they do or what they grow.

Curriculum links:

England

Scotland

Wales

English:
- Respond to others appropriately, taking into account what they say; make contributions relevant to the topic and take turns in discussion; qualify or justify what they think after listening to others' questions or accounts.
- Understanding texts and reading for information.

Citizenship/PSHE:
- Research, discuss and debate topical issues, problems and events; that resources can be allocated in different ways; to think about the lives of people living in other places and times.

English:
- Talking in groups.
- Listening in groups.
- Reading for information.

Environmental Studies, Social subjects:
- Developing informed attitudes - the importance of interdependence in a local and global context; caring for other members of society.

English:
- Respond to others appropriately, taking into account what they say; make contributions relevant to the topic and take turns in discussion; qualify or justify what they think after listening to others' questions or accounts.
- Understanding texts and reading for information.

PSE:
- Vocational aspect - production, distribution and selling of goods; concern for the wider environment.

 
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