Hunger+Banquet+Reflection

__WORLD HUNGER BANQUET __
**Purpose:** The purpose of this lesson is to introduce the issue of world hunger by allowing students to experience a hunger banquet upon arrival to class. Students will be given the opportunity to reflect on their experience in a whole-class discussion and independently in a blog entry. In this lesson, students will connect their experience to statistics on the hungry, malnourished, obese, and overweight. At the end of the lesson, students will be introduced to the goal of the unit, which is creating a hunger awareness campaign. **Objectives: ** **Action Plan**: **Homework**: Students will be assigned another societal role before the leave the classroom. At home they will blog about how their role is similar or different to their role in the hunger banquet. They will reflect on the class wikispace discussion board.
 * Students will reflect on their feelings and findings on the hunger banquet.
 * Students will connect their experience to statistics on the hungry, malnourished, obese, and overweight.
 * Students will start synthesizing a hunger awareness campaign.
 * The classroom will be organized in a horseshoe seating arrangement for a whole-class discussion. As a whole class, students will reflect on what they observed and learned from the hunger banquet by a series of assigned prompts.
 * Prompt 1: If your societal role in the hunger banquet was permanent, how would it change your life today?
 * Prompt 2: If you could choose another societal role, which one would you choose and why?
 * Prompt 3: How does each societal role affect the body system?
 * Following the student discussion to the verbal prompts, as a whole class, students will create a chart on the interactive white board. The chart will consist of what students already know about hunger and science and what students want to know about it.
 * Students will then be introduced to the World Hunger unit class wikispace. Laptops will then be distributed so students can start create their own member id for a wikispace.
 * After all students created their wikispace, I will ask them to visit the class wikispace, which will display a link that connects to the [|world-o-meter]. I will ask them to click on the link to observe the current statistics on undernourished people in the world, people who died of hunger, and overweight and obese people in the world. After verbally collecting some thoughts about these statistics, students will then write their first blog entry on their wikispace during class time. They will analyze the statistics to determine why there are so many people undernourished in the world and why that number is significantly close to the number of overweight people.
 * During the last few minutes of class time, we will rejoin as a class to discuss the final unit project which will be a public awareness campaign (Click here for project guidelines). As a class we will create groups (4-5 students per group) for the final project.
 * <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">After students formed their groups they will discuss the question, “Why is hunger important” and write their answer on an exit slip and hand it in before they leave class.