1	1. The Question “Every day more than 16,000 children die from hunger-related causes: one child every five seconds.” It’s easy to understand how drought could cause a famine (no rain = no crops), but how could factors like culture and gender affect world hunger? State of Food Insecurity in the World 2005. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/008/a0200e/a0200e00.pdf
2	2. Information Sources The first place you will visit is a ThinkQuest web site that provides facts, figures and statistics on world hunger. Use the Cornell Notes form on the next slide to organize your new learning. After you build your background knowledge, then, you will explore the cultural causes of world hunger. Finally, you will examine the other causes of world hunger in order to decide how important cultural issues are in creating the problem.
3	3. The Student Activity Use Cornell Notes to record your new learning as you read facts, figures and statistics on world hunger. If you have never used the Cornell Note-taking System before click on the model. If you have used Cornell Notes before, click on the Cornell Notes Form; save it to your documents or desktop; and toggle back and forth between the web site and the form to record key points, facts, and ideas. Model of Cornell Notes Cornell Notes Form Next, you will explore the cultural causes of world hunger. As you read, continue to add notes about the cultural causes of hunger. Look closely at how gender issues and social customs cause hunger. Then, examine the other causes of world hunger in order to decide how important cultural issues are in creating the problem. Once you have decided how important each factor is in causing the problem demonstrate you understanding by typing in the causes in descending order in the pyramid diagram to the right. Finally, title your diagram.
4	4. The Assessment Activity
5	5. Enrichment Activities If you want to learn about solutions to the problem of world hunger, click on the web sites below: World Hunger Year (WHY) United Nations World Food Programme If you want to be part of the solution, use a brown grocery bag to share the information you have learned with your community. Decorate the two sides of the bag with information that you gathered in your research. Be creative as well as informative. Your teacher will arrange to have these informational bags distributed at a local grocery store.
6	6. Teacher Support Materials Objective: Students will investigate the issues that impact world hunger. Indicator: Students will investigate global issues that impact the world food supply and identify viable options for reducing disparities. Overarching Question: How do gender issues and social customs contribute to the problem of world hunger. Time Management Strategies: This is 1 – 45 minute lesson Students can be partnered for the student activity. AVID Strategies Cornell Note-taking System Differentiation – Print student copies and allow students to highlight important information. Multiple graphics help scaffold learning and note-taking. Visual learners can change the pyramid diagram to reflect more complex interactions by right clicking the diagram and selecting “Change to.” Learning Styles – Field Dependent Visual learner Active learners Reflective learner Global Understanding