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Lesson Title: Fragile Food Chains Relative Length: 1-3 days
Grade Level: Secondary Subject: Social Studies & Creative Writing
Immediate Objectives:
Students will learn about governing resources, planning for the future, and working with
unforeseen circumstances.
Students will take structured notes about how their choices and uncontrolled environmental
factors affected their hypothetical village.
Students will write about managing resources from an imagined personal perspective.
Students will be assessed, on an age appropriate scale, on the thoroughness of their notes and
on the understanding of their experiences as apparent from their subsequent writing.
Global Objectives:
To increase understanding of global and local resources and allocation
To increase socio-economic awareness and sensitivity
To understand the personal consequences of resource planning and governance.
Materials: Each student will receive a worksheet on which to chart the progress of their agricultural year
(below). Each group will receive a stack of 54 printed on cardstock, cut out, & thoroughly shuffled, with
events written on them, as well as money tokens and crop tokens (also below). Students will need lined
paper and a pencil or pen, or word processing resources.
Introduction: Set students up in groups. As a class, ask them what they know about the process of
producing food. Bring up incidents in the news nationally and globally, such as a rise in prices for certain
grown commodities (what might cause prices to increase?) or weather systems (how might they affect
food production?).
Activities:
1. Each student will receive a worksheet on which to chart the progress of their group’s agricultural
year (below). Each group will receive a stack of 54 printed cards with events written on them
(also below), and money and crop tokens.
2. Read the directions as a class & go over a couple of scenarios/examples. Try to personalize it, to
set the tone for the students to see these events as happening to people. Draw a card, or a few
cards, & talk about the personal ramifications as well as the effect on the game.
3. Have groups play the game and record their results on the worksheet.
4. Bring the class back together to talk about what happened, and about the writing assignment (the
last number on the worksheet). Ask students to suggest places that these scenarios could
happen in, and how the results might be different depending on where the family was. Then ask
them to do the writing.
Closure: Bring the class together once more for a full classroom discussion. This time, compare results
from all the groups in the class— maybe on a whiteboard. How did the families do? Who was
prosperous, and who had to re-locate (begin again) multiple times? Where in the world did students
place themselves while telling what happened in story form, and why? What strategies might we employ
at community, national, and world levels to make life easier for families like these everywhere?
Assessment: Students will be assessed on both individual and group participation throughout the
lesson. The worksheet should be assessed for accuracy and detail, and the short story should be
checked for imagination, story structure, and use of the timeline from the worksheet. Classroom
discussion should be a factor in the final assessment as well. Recommend grading in three parts: Group
& classroom game and discussion participation (40%), accuracy and detail of recorded information (20%),
and detail, structure, and quality of creative writing (40%).
Notes & Resources: Please feel free to tailor this lesson in any way to your own classroom or school.
At The Hunger Site, we hope to foster a culture of peace through education and awareness as well as the
simple act of feeding the hungry. Learn more at www.TheHungerSite.com.
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Fragile Food Chains: A Year’s Snapshot Name:
1. Read the directions and the key very carefully.
2. Begin with 2 crop tokens and 3 money tokens.
3. For each month, you must first draw a conditions card, then reap a harvest according to the key
below, and finally pay one token (either crop or money) to feed your family. If you fail to feed your
family, document that you are malnourished for that month. If you are malnourished for 3 months in
a row, you have reached starvation and must leave your farm. Start again.
4. At any time during each month, you may buy or sell crop tokens according to the season you are in
(see key). During spring and summer months, you may plant crops. For each planted crop, harvest
as indicated by the season you’re in. Discard half (round up) of planted crops when winter begins.
5. Play the game for 3 total years. Then look at your harvest record. How many years were you
successful? When did you fail, and why? What happened to affect your life?
6. Imagine being a person in the family that just experienced the three years you recorded. What
would your life have been like? Write a one-page, single-spaced short story from that person’s
viewpoint. Choose and describe specific incidents, the way you felt during these incidents, and
what happened to your family because of them, both physically and emotionally.
January July
Year 1: Year 1:
Year 2: Year 2:
Year 3: Year 3:
February August
Year 1: Year 1:
Year 2: Year 2:
Year 3: Year 3:
March September
Year 1: Year 1:
Year 2: Year 2:
Year 3: Year 3:
April October
Year 1: Year 1:
Year 2: Year 2:
Year 3: Year 3:
May November
Year 1: Year 1:
Year 2: Year 2:
Year 3: Year 3:
June December
Year 1: Year 1:
Year 2: Year 2:
Year 3: Year 3:
Weather Card Key:
Seasonal Weather: Weather is normal for that part of the year, no crop interference.
Exceptional Weather: Weather is absolutely perfect for growing! Double your crop tokens for this week.
Poor Weather: Your crops are negatively affected. Halve your crop tokens for this week (round down).
Seasons
Winter: December – February
~Harvest 0 crop tokens per planted crops. ~1 crop token costs 3 money tokens.
Spring: March – May
~Harvest 1 crop token for every two planted crops. ~1 crop token costs 2 money tokens.
Summer: June – August
~Harvest 1 crop token for every planted crop. ~1 crop token costs 1 money token.
Fall: September – November
~Harvest 2 crop tokens for every planted crop. ~2 crop tokens cost 1 money token.
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Planted Crops: Place Tokens Here (or record on a separate sheet of paper)
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Cards (cut out & shuffle well)
Seasonal Weather Seasonal Weather Seasonal Weather
Seasonal Weather Seasonal Weather Seasonal Weather
Seasonal Weather Seasonal Weather Seasonal Weather
Seasonal Weather Seasonal Weather Seasonal Weather
Seasonal Weather Seasonal Weather Seasonal Weather
Seasonal Weather Seasonal Weather Seasonal Weather
Seasonal Weather Exceptional Weather Exceptional Weather
Exceptional Weather Exceptional Weather Exceptional Weather
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Exceptional Weather Poor Weather Poor Weather
Poor Weather Poor Weather Poor Weather
Poor Weather Poor Weather Poor Weather
Pest: Blight
Natural Disaster: Wildfire Winter & Spring: Lose half of harvest and
Winter, Spring, & Summer: Lose harvest half of planted crops.
Poor Weather
& half of planted crops. Summer & Fall: Loose half of harvest &
Fall: Loose 2 harvest crop tokens all planted crops.
Other: Crop token cost doubles.
Big Weather System: Tornado! Big Weather System: Flood!
Big Weather System: Hail! Winter: No effect.
Winter, Spring, & Summer: Lose harvest
Winter: No effect. Spring: Lose harvest & planted crops.
& half of planted crops.
Spring, Summer, or Fall: Lose harvest. Summer: Lose harvest.
Fall: Loose 2 harvest crop tokens.
Fall: Loose 1 harvest crop token.
Big Weather System: Dry Spell Natural Disaster: Drought
Big Weather System: Freezes Winter: No effect.
Winter, Spring, & Summer: Lose planted
Winter: No effect. Spring: Lose harvest & planted crops.
crops.
Spring: Lose harvest & planted crops. Summer: Lose harvest & half of planted
Fall: Loose 4 harvest crop tokens.
Summer or Fall: Lose harvest. crops.
Other: Crop token cost doubles.
Fall: Loose harvest.
Natural Disaster: Hurricane Natural Disaster: Earthquake Pest: Locusts
Winter: Lose crop tokens. Winter: No effect.
Winter: Lose crop tokens.
Spring: Lose harvest & all planted crops. Spring & Summer: Lose harvest & half of
Spring or Summer: Lose harvest.
Summer or Fall: Lose harvest & half of planted crops.
Fall: Loose 4 harvest crop tokens.
planted crops. Fall: Loose harvest & all planted crops.
Other: Crop token cost doubles.
Other: Crop token cost doubles. Other: Crop token cost doubles.
War War
Pest: Mice Winter: Lose all saved money tokens & Winter: Lose all saved money tokens &
Winter: Lose all saved crop tokens. half of saved crop tokens. half of saved crop tokens
Spring, Summer, & Fall: Lose all saved Spring, Summer, & Fall: Lose all saved Spring, Summer, & Fall: Lose all saved
crop tokens & harvest. money tokens and all planted crop money tokens and all planted crop
Other: Crop token cost doubles. tokens. tokens.
Other: Crop token cost triples. Other: Crop token cost triples.
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Government Regulations Environmental Regulations Pollution: Water
Lose 5 money tokens. If you don’t have Your harvest crops are worth half of their
Lose 1 money token every time you plant
enough, sell unplanted crop tokens to value on the market from now until
a crop from now on. Your harvest crops
make up remainder. If you still don’t have Pollution is discarded, no matter what
are worth double on the market from now
enough, lose all your planted crops and other conditions may exist. Leave this
on, no matter what other conditions may
begin again – the government has seized card on the table unless Environmental
exist. Leave this card on the table.
your land and you must move on. Regulations is active; then discard.
Pollution: Pesticides Market Changes: Surplus Market Changes: Deficit
Your harvest crops are worth half of their Your crops are worth half of their value Your crops are worth double their value
value on the market from now until on the market this month only. There is on the market this month only. There is
Pollution is discarded, no matter what more supply than demand, so the prices more demand than supply, so the prices
other conditions may exist. Leave this must be low to compete. for food are high.
card on the table unless Environmental Other: Crop token cost is half, if you Other: Crop token cost doubles, if you
Regulations is active; then discard. need to buy. need to buy.
Money Tokens & Harvest Tokens (cut out)
$ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $
$ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $
$ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $
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