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Lesson plan: Hunger, what can we do?

From the Making a Meal of It! online resource

Age group: 7 - 11

Aims:
To encourage children to consider possible solutions to hunger.

What to do:
Photocopy the worksheet: Hunger - What can we do? so that every child has a copy. You could read the statements to the class, discussing them as you go and finding and marking the relevant countries on a world map. The children could also do this work in small groups if they are confident readers.

After you have discussed the statements, ask pupils to list all the ideas people are suggesting to tackle hunger. Suggestions might include: paying people fairly for what they make or do; giving unsold food from shops and restaurants to people who need it; helping people who do not have enough to eat to grow additional food. What other ideas do the children have?

With older children you could then go on to discuss how easy it would be to put these ideas into practice. Why do the children think that some people are still allowed to go hungry when there is actually enough food for everybody? Suggestions may include: because some people do not understand that there is enough food for everyone; because some people don’t care if other people go hungry.

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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