Food for Thought Program
The Power of a Meal

Classroom Lessons:   

• A Billion Hungry People (Elementary) - This lesson from Learning to Give helps students understand the importance of nutrition, food insecurity and inequality in food distribution.  http://www.learningtogive.org/lessons/unit250/lesson2.html
• Food Insecurity: Hunger and Food Around the Globe (Elementary) - This lesson from Learning to Give helps students understand food insecurity and scarcity of resources.  http://learningtogive.org/lessons/unit251/lesson2.html
• The Hunger Tree: A lesson exploring the root causes of hunger(Elementary) - This lesson from The World Food Program helps students think about hunger, why it occurs and what they can do to help.  http://documents.wfp.org/stellent/groups/public/documents/communications/wfp243213.pdf
• Hunger and Poverty Guide: Fact sheet and Lessons from Chicago Public Schools.  Lots of facts, definitions, myths, classroom connections, and activity ideas about hunger.  Great resource.  http://www.servicelearning.cps.k12.il.us/pdf/hungerPovety.pdf
• Debate on Poverty Lesson designed by PEF. 9-12 Grade: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/9-12th-Debate-on-Poverty-in-Haiti-73872
• TeachUnicef:  Teach Unicef has free multimedia lesson plans around the topics of poverty for K-12 grades.  http://teachunicef.org/explore/topic/millennium-development-goals