Why+should+we+care?

__**//Why should we care?//**__ **Purpose**: The purpose of this lesson is look at hunger around the world more in depth. In this lesson, students will devise an action plan to describe how they can make hunger aware to the public. **Action Plan**: media type="youtube" key="udl9K6L1ekI" height="315" width="420" align="center"
 * Objectives: **
 * Students will observe and analyze the distribution of hunger across the globe.
 * Students will recognize why they should care about world hunger.
 * Students will develop an action plan which states an issue they want to make aware and solutions to the issue.


 * Students will watch the video shown above, which provides important information about hunger. Students will rejoin their project groups and discuss the most important facts in the video they just watched. I will display the World Hunger Map 2011 on the interactive white board so students can observe and analyze the distribution of hunger across the globe. As a group, students will discuss and answer the prompts and generate a //one-minute paper// to hand in before the end of class.
 * Prompt 1: Why are millions of people hungry?
 * Prompt 2: Why should we care?
 * Prompt 3: What makes hunger specific to this part of the world?
 * After 15 minutes I will stop the group discussion and ask some groups to discuss their answer to the last prompt out loud. After students generated answers I will verbally let students know that the world produces enough food to feed everyone. According to worldhunger.org and Food and Agricultural Organization, world agriculture produces 17 percent more calories per person today than it did 30 years ago, despite a 70 percent population increase. This is enough to provide everyone in the world with at least 2,720 kilocalories (kcal) per person per day. I will further explain that despite a world-wide surplus of food, 800 million to 1 billion people across the globe are food insecure. This includes an estimated 17.2 million people in the U.S.
 * I will then ask the whole class again, why should we care? At this time, I will allow students to evoke ideas out loud.
 * During the last 5- 7 minutes of class time, students will rejoin their project groups and finish their one-minute paper. They will also start developing an action plan or proposal for their final project which states what they want to make aware for the public, why should this issue be considered, and what impact might it have on the public. Students will assign roles within their groups to make sure who will do what for the action plan and for the project as a whole.

**Homework:** Students will create a well- developed action plan/proposal (one to two double-spaced pages). They will also cut out nutrition labels from their favorite food items and bring to class.