Understanding food insecurity

Year level: Middle primary/Upper primary Learning Outcomes Students understand some of the reasons people are unable to get enough to eat List the food you have eaten in the last 24 hours. Create a webmap for one of the food items showing all the people who might have been involved in the various stages of growing, processing, delivering and preparing the food before you ate it. Use a different colour on your webmap to suggest things at each stage that could have prevented the food from getting to you Use a third colour to show how you could overcome these difficulties. Discuss What types of situations could prevent you from having food to eat? What would happen if you could not get food? What could be done to overcome these problems? What resources would you need to help overcome the problems? Would people in other countries be able to overcome these problems in a similar way? Why or why not? Select a food that grows in your area. Research what you would need to grow and prepare the food. Prepare a presentation answering the following questions: What climate conditions and resources are needed? How long would it take to grow? What problems might prevent the food from growing? How would you overcome these problems? How many meals would the food provide? How would the food be preserved and stored? Plan a day's menu using food you could grow in your area. How would this differ to food you usually eat? Discuss How difficult would it be to grow enough food to feed your family for a year? Create a role-play about people in different places getting sufficient food all year round. Assessment task In small groups select one of the five causes of food insecurity and prepare a two minute television new report that explains and dramatises the selection.