October 7, 2010

By: LeQuyen T. from Saint Paul, MN
Comments: 44

Posted By: LeQuyen Tran
On: 8/5/2008 4:13:52 PM

I think this site will give a more visual understanding to our students when we discuss the 90% of the world population living in poverty. For elementary students it is too hard to fathom what it means to live with less than $1.00 a day, especially when we live in a society of consumption where things have to be bought at the store. https://homelessnation.org/en/node/7412

Posted By: Thelma Kastl
On: 8/7/2008 7:05:03 PM

Excellent resource. I think it is equally relevant for high school ages. I plan on using it! Thank you.

Posted By: LeQuyen Tran
On: 8/7/2008 7:40:10 PM

I actually found the source of the food consumption comparison. It's from Peter Menzel's book Material world: a global family portrait. You can see excerpts from this NOVA site: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance/material.html

Posted By: Thelma Kastl
On: 8/8/2008 8:23:05 PM

The section containing portraits of the families' material possessions was equally interesting. Thank you fro sharing.

Posted By: Stephen Brink
On: 8/10/2008 11:40:03 PM

LeQuyen, thanks for this information. That is a very powerful set of photos. In addition to the contrast of food consumption, students might find the packaging needs of interest also.

Posted By: Juliana James
On: 8/12/2008 9:01:39 PM

Are you aware that you can order very large maps from the National Geographic Society that would be useful when showing the photos on the website LeQuyen mentioned? Check your local geography alliance or your district's social studies specialist to see if the maps have been ordered.

Posted By: Audrey Gagnaire
On: 9/10/2008 4:41:46 PM

I am planning to have my class record all that they eat for a week. Then we will compare our findings with what the families shown on the website eat each week. That will imply graphing and comparing data. Also we will compare with a Venn diagram.

Posted By: Michael DiMartino
On: 9/16/2008 9:15:01 PM

The pictures offer students a great way to compare their families with others around the world. It has led to a great discussion in my 7th grade geography class as we compared the other 90 percent to our own country. Thanks

Posted By: Centennial Middle School
On: 2/18/2009 10:25:55 AM

I am disussing doing an interdisciplinary unit with our FACS(family and consumer science) department. As well, I would like to get our school's nutritionist invloved.

Posted By: Lori Baucom
On: 2/18/2009 11:25:24 AM

This is some relevant information and I am going to share this with the teachers at my school who could benefit from the inforamtion.

Posted By: Julie Tangeman
On: 2/18/2009 1:20:16 PM

I used to have a simulation like activity that students did around this theme. I remember that it involved matchsticks, candy kisses and other objects that represented wealth. Students were divided into different size groups to represent world population distribution. Does anyone have a copy of this? I am going through my files and will check with a few other teachers who may have used it too. Thanks for reminding me about this.

Posted By: Lori Baucom
On: 2/18/2009 1:52:15 PM

This looks like such a great idea. This makes me miss teaching Social Studies. I will share this with the Social Studies and even the Math teachers.

Posted By: Vincent Goeddeke
On: 2/22/2009 8:46:36 PM

This resource would give even young students like the kindergartners that I teach some great context about others in the world and begin to understand why design would be different for the other 90%. Thanks for the resource.

Posted By: Frederick Smith
On: 3/2/2009 11:26:51 AM

I like this idea. What a great way to make learning more reflective of the current times that many are facing.

Posted By: lisa arcand
On: 3/3/2009 9:24:27 PM

I agree with Vince -this would be a great lesson to use with young children.Has anyone found a copy of this lesson? If not, I could probably improvise. I've got to check out that website too!

Posted By: Justin Jones
On: 4/25/2009 8:28:19 PM

This is a great resource. I think it would work well with all ages.

Posted By: cheri Bedard
On: 4/27/2009 5:34:31 PM

What a great website. It provides so much information from which students can make comparisons. Great way to bring up conversation in a number of different disciplines. Personally, I find it very disturbing to see all the processed food for the United States family. No wonder we have an issue with childhood obesity.

Posted By: Jason Weinberger
On: 6/1/2009 4:22:09 PM

I found this resource last fall and have applied it in my classroom (AP Environmental Science) this year. It sparked wonderful discussion through socratic seminar, fit in nicely with the textbook reading (From Miller, 15th ed.) and led into the background information on several lab activities (ecological footprint, energy consumption, solid waste). I thank you for sharing with others here on this forum and hope that once discovered; find it as useful as I.

Posted By: Maggie Nelms
On: 7/7/2009 3:00:41 PM

This would be nice to use with my 6th grade social studies class as they will be studying Europe, Latin America, Canada, and Australia next year. To understand more about the culture will add to a more in depth knowledge base.

Posted By: Angela Carmon
On: 7/8/2009 3:22:00 PM

This summer when I attend an International Baccalaureate Training at the Atlanta International School. At a session concerning International Mindedness, the teachers were posed a question: "What is the most consumed food by teenagers globally?" Answers ranged from pizza to burgers...When the answer was rice, we all had a huge "Ah Ha" moment.

Posted By: Bertina Banks
On: 7/8/2009 9:03:50 PM

This would be a good resource to use with our 8th grade GA History students, as we discuss various crops and their effect on the economy. This would also be a good segway to discuss nutrition in America in comparision with other parts of the world.

Posted By: Lindsey Clement
On: 9/21/2009 8:34:33 PM

Wow. This is very interesting. I feel that it could be beneficial to share with children of any age. What kind of projects do you/have you design out of sharing such information?

Posted By: Bradley Uebelhor
On: 9/30/2009 9:09:59 PM

What a great site. I'm going to forward it to our health and geography teachers. Going to the cupboard now to donate to the Student Council's food drive that started this week.