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Problems with our Food System: Hunger

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Students understand that hunger causes many deaths a year and many children are trapped as slaves through watching a video. In this hunger and child slavery lesson, students write letters to call attention to the problems of hunger and child slavery around the world.

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3rd - 8th
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English Language Arts
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