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Instructor, 1985
Teachers can help students understand why world hunger exists and explore ways to eliminate it. Activities based on the Food First Curriculum developed by the Institute for Food and Development Policy are discussed, and suggestions are made to help children get beyond the well-meaning hype of various fundraising efforts. (MT)
Descriptors: Current Events, Elementary Education, Hunger, Social Studies
Morris, Donald N. – Simulation/Gaming, 1976
Description of an exercise in which students role play to develop empathy for people with survival problems in poorer nations and to understand the interdependent effects of consumer demand and consumption. (LS)
Descriptors: Educational Games, Elementary Secondary Education, Hunger, Role Playing

Donnan, Caroline S. – Educational Leadership, 1986
Describes a program, developed in a small Vermont elementary school, that centered on world hunger and global awareness by involving students in helping stop food waste during lunch. Community members and businesses pledged money as an incentive for stopping waste, and the money raised went to UNICEF. (MD)
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Elementary Education, Food, Global Approach
Czarra, Fred; And Others – Intercom, 1982
Contains six lesson plans and student materials for a unit on global food distribution and the problems of world hunger for secondary social studies classes. Students study nutrition, population distribution, poverty, the causes of hunger, and economic development, and generate personal actions to solve the hunger problem. (AM)
Descriptors: Food, Global Approach, Hunger, Secondary Education
Van Vliet, Lucille W. – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1988
Describes a lesson designed to involve students in grades 6 through 8 in learning how geography was affected the problem of world hunger. Emphasis is placed on using maps, globes, atlases, and geographic dictionaries, as well as books, magazines, and other resources. (MES)
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Elementary Secondary Education, Hunger, Learning Activities

Molnar, Alex – Educational Leadership, 1983
There are concrete ways to bring international concerns into classrooms. The answer to whether we want to do so can only emerge out of civic and professional debate. Lists of organizations and resource materials about hunger and related problems are provided. (MLF)
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Developing Nations, Elementary Secondary Education, Futures (of Society)
Neeson, Eileen; And Others – 1984
This model social studies lesson includes a simulated interview with a relief worker describing the famine conditions in Ethiopia. A map of Africa and pictures of famine victims are included. The objectives of the lesson are to have students describe the situation in Ethiopia, analyze the causes, and evaluate solutions to the famine. In the model…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries, Hunger, Instructional Materials
White, Gene; Balakshin, Maria – 2002
Global hunger is one of the most urgent health and social problems the world faces at the beginning of the new millennium. In a world that produces enough food to feed every human being on the planet, there are still some 830 million people who do not get enough food on a daily basis. About 24,000 people die each day from the effects of hunger;…
Descriptors: Childhood Needs, Food, Global Approach, Health Needs
Phillips, Jim – 1982
Designed for high school global education classes, this document examines ways in which the arms race affects the poor. Military expenditures and foreign economic aid of the developed nations are compared with survival needs of developing nations. Statistics support five premises: the arms race (1) diverts resources from productive activity and…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Expenditures, Global Approach
Totten, Sam – Curriculum Review, 1984
Describes activities of a unit on world hunger which include presenting a lexicon, topic overview, and guest speakers; reading topically related novels; creating scrapbooks; discussing pertinent quotations; exploring government role in ameliorating hunger; and completing final papers or projects. Resource materials are listed, including pertinent…
Descriptors: Government Role, Hunger, Instructional Films, Resource Materials
Greenburg, Hazel Sara, Ed. – 1993
This curriculum guide is a compilation of curriculum pieces that have appeared either in "Intercom" or in another earlier curriculum guide but are still vital and relevant; what binds the issues in the pieces together is the urgency of the problems they pose--urgent issues for both developed and "underdeveloped" nations…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Developed Nations, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Nesbitt, William A.; Karls, Andrea B. – Intercom, 1975
Data and activities examining the current world food crisis are provided. (DE)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Data Analysis, Food, Global Approach
Simpson, Jane – Today's Education: Social Studies Edition, 1982
Discusses the teaching of world hunger in the classroom. Controversial questions and map skills for students are discussed as well as activities for home economics and science classes. A list of resource materials is included. (AM)
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Elementary Secondary Education, Home Economics Education, Hunger
Fleming, Dan B. – Intercom, 1975
A simulation designed to examine American responsibility with respect to global hunger is provided. Students play American leaders who must choose between conflicting national and international priorities. (Author/DE)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Food, Foreign Policy, Global Approach
Miles, Julie – 1995
This guide is intended to organize education, service, and action events in conjunction with National Hunger and Homelessness Week, November 13-17, 1995. The guide presents a calendar of events, program tips, recruitment tips, an overview of the program, project ideas for fund-raising and service, awareness activities, fact sheets, and resources…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Higher Education, Homeless People, Housing Needs