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Due to COVID-19, our Summer Camp Program has been cancelled.
75% of Boston’s students receive free or reduced lunch. With schools closed for an extended period of time there is a real concern about how these students will continue to have access to nutritious meals. In today’s lesson, families can explore the issue of food insecurity and then contribute to helping our neighbors provide healthy meals for their families.
Watch: Maddi's Fridge by Lis Brant:
Watch: Maddi's Fridge by Lis Brant:
Vocabulary: Pause and see if they can use inference clues to understand what the following words mean.
- Growled: a sound associated with hunger
- Hungry: having a desire, craving, or need for food.
- Nutrition: the process of nourishing (promoting or sustaining life, growth, or strength)
- Promise: a statement that something will or will not be done, given, etc.
- Treat: something special; food, drink, entertainment, etc.
Definitions from dictionary.com
Discussion Questions:
- How would you feel if you had to rely on a stranger to provide your lunch every day?
- How does it feel when you are hungry and you have to wait to eat?
- What are ways we could help those who are hungry?
- What things are you grateful for? Are these things you need to live or things that are simply nice to have?
Elementary Aged Activity: The Grocery "Trip"
Elementary Aged Activity: The Grocery "Trip"
Description: Students will learn about what goes into planning a nutritious menu for a family, and the costs associated with a nutritious meal.
Objective: Foster an understanding of the cost of planning a nutritious meal and how difficult it can be to plan a nutritious meal when on a budget.
Lesson: Using the chart plan a family of three’s daily menu with a budget of $18. Pull out real or play money to help! Put prices on real or pretend food for an even more interactive experience!
Grocery Trip Sheet.pdfMiddle School Activity: The Hunger Gap
Middle School Activity: The Hunger Gap
Description: Students will consider how to define and measure hunger and food insecurity, examine community food availability maps, and explore interventions designed to improve food security.
Objective:
- Define hunger and food insecurity and explain how they are different.
- Analyze and interpret community food availability maps.
- Describe criteria for defining a food desert.
Lesson:
- Read the Hunger and food Insecurity Primer at: http://www.foodsystemprimer.org/food-and-nutrition/hunger-and-food-insecurity/
- Review the Food Gap Slides and Maps
- Answer the questions on the Hunger hand out for Roland park and one other community
lesson14-hunger-handouts.pdfChoose a way to take action:
Choose a way to take action:
1. Collect nonperishable food items to be distributed to families:
1. Collect nonperishable food items to be distributed to families:
- VOCABULARY: Discuss what “nonperishable” means.
- ART: Find an empty box in your house. Decorate it! Use stickers, words, drawings, paint, pictures of food, etc. so it really stands out.
- Look in your pantry for “nonperishable foods” that you can donate and put them in the box.
- Social Studies: Decide where you’re going to drop off your donations. One of our neighbors is running a collection drive for students in Boston. You can drop off to her porch at 10 Farmington Rd. West Newton. You can also donate to a food pantry. Use Google Maps to map the route and print out the map so you can lead the way!
- P.E.: Put as many items as you can into your backpack and bike or walk to drop off your donations!
- Keep your decorated box in a special place so you remember to pick up something nonperishable every time you shop for groceries!
2. Become a Community Cook in your own home:
2. Become a Community Cook in your own home:
- Use this website to sign up for a "cooking assignment" to provide food for a family in need.
- https://www.projectgivingkids.org/activities/cook-for-a-cause-in-your-own-home/
Additional ART Activities:
Additional ART Activities:
- Make a "Food Appreciation Collage." Cut or print out your favorite healthy foods that you appreciate having! Add fun labels and words.
- Use step-by-step tutorials to draw your favorite foods. There are many online! Here's one: http://www.hellokids.com/r_1960/drawing-for-kids/drawing-tutorials-step-by-step/drawing-food-tutorials
Another resource for teaching children about hunger:
Another resource for teaching children about hunger:
Reflect on your service project:
Reflect on your service project:
1) Watch the story Stone Soup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZf60cb3Th8
1) Watch the story Stone Soup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZf60cb3Th8
2) Use one of the attached writing pages from Lesson #1
2) Use one of the attached writing pages from Lesson #1
Here are some questions your can include in this reflection:
- What did you do?
- Who did you help?
- How did it feel to give to others?
- How were you like a character from the Stone Soup or Madi's Fridge?
OR
3) Record a video of yourself talking about the service project.
3) Record a video of yourself talking about the service project.
Use the questions above as talking points! Send the video to a friend and encourage them to do the project too!
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