How+can+we+help+the+hungry+and+malnourished?

__**//How can we help the hungry and malnourished?//** __ Students will recognize how canned foods and corn-soy blended foods can sometimes harm the hungry and malnourished by making them sick. Students will research the similarities and differences in the nutritional value of food drives for various hunger organizations. Students will develop ways they can help the hungry and malnourished.
 * Purpose: ** In this lesson, students will discuss ways they can help 1 billion people from going hungry. They will debate whether canned food drives actually help the malnourished and starving or whether it makes them sick. They will use several resources to support their argument about the rise or decline of canned food drives in their school.
 * Objectives: **
 * Action Plan: **
 * The classroom will be organized in a horseshoe seating arrangement.
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 * As a class, we will watch the influential video shown above. After watching the video, I will give a few prompts to generate ideas and a discussion about the video just watched.
 * Prompt 1: How can you help 1 billion people from going hungry?
 * Prompt 2: Do canned food drives really help the hungry and malnourished?
 * After 10 minutes, I will stop the discussion and verbally explain to students that Americans send corn-soy blended foods overseas to help children who are malnourished. The problem with this is that these foods only provide a minimal amount of vitamins. The products fill their stomachs but are not easily absorbed. A quarter of people that eat these corn-soy blended foods actually lose weight and get sicker. We send these foods because in the 1950s, congress passed a law that majority of the food send out of seas to help the hungry must be from farms mainly because it is less expensive.
 * I will then ask a couple more questions to probe more ideas about the disadvantages of corn-soy blended foods and canned foods.
 * Prompt 3: Why might corn-soy blended foods get the hungry sick?
 * Prompt 4: What kinds of foods can we send the hungry?
 * After 5-7 minutes of discussion, students will work in pairs to perform a research activity with computers, which will be provided. They will search through large and smaller hunger organizations (world or local) to determine what kind of foods are being sent to help the hungry. Students will perform a study that analyzes the similarities and differences in these types of foods. They will compare foods from two types of organizations from the resources shown below or they will choose their own. They will answer a few questions as shown below.
 * What are they called?
 * When and where used?
 * How are they used?
 * What are the ingredients?
 * What is the nutritional value (per 100mg)?
 * <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">What is the price?


 * <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Helpful Resources **

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">OxfamAmerica

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Action Against Hunger

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> City Harvest

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> [|Food Bank NYC]

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> NYC Coalition Against Hunger

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Harvest for Hunger

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> The Hunger Project

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> UNICEF-USA

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> FeedingAmerica- Hunger Relief

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> World Food Programme- Special Nutritional Foods

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 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Homework: ** Students will work in pairs (preferably members of the same project group), develop a podcast that will explain how they can help world or local hunger. In this podcast, one student will be a radio station spokesperson interviewing another student about how they plan on making hunger aware to the public and how they plan on putting an end to this starvation and malnutrition crisis. They will embed this podcast onto the class wikispace. Students will visit the Worldhungerunit wikispace for more information about podcasting.