Students read articles about specific world hunger initiatives and projects, and be asked to discuss these projects and whether they think they are effective. They write statements to friends or relatives who think the problem is irresolvable.

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6th - 8th

Students separate fact from fiction and, at the same time, examine a major issue confronting the global community. They make posters or a bulletin board to educate other students or classes about the hunger myths and their "corrections."

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9th - 12th

Students participate in a lesson that is concerned with finding solutions to the problem of hunger in the world. Students write a story with a mythological superhero to illustrate how we all need to be superheros in order to help end the problem of world hunger.

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4th - 5th

Student play an online Sim City type game from the BBC website in which they complete a World Food Programme mission. They investigate the causes and of hunger in different parts of the world and then research a particular region's hunger problem. They use this information to create a proposal for their own computer game in which players tackle world hunger.

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11th - Higher Ed

Students research world hunger on Internet, read actual scenarios about hunger, compile economic and hunger statistics using spreadsheet, compare and contrast statistical data, and create posters and bulletin board display to publicize awareness of world hunger. Students then participate in Hunger Banquet.

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6th - 8th