Social+Studies

**Rationale**: Hunger affects many people in the community and it is important to raise awareness and inform students about the issue in their society. The goal of this unit is to relate how hunger affects people to the students personal lives. Students will be given the opportunity to read actual accounts of people suffering from hunger. Then the students will explore how hunger impacts different members of the community to eliminate stereotyping and bias. Students will make connections from their research to serving at St. Vincent de Paul by not passing judgement and understand where someone is coming from. It will be important for the students to have a servants heart and model Christ like behaviors and remember to love their neighbors, even those who live different lives than their own. After completion of this unit, students will be able to inform others about the need to help those that are hungry in the community and be able to serve with compassion and love, without judgement and stereotyping.
 * Social Studies Service Learning Unit Plan **

**Standards**: After successful completion of this unit, the students will be able to:
 * E.8.7 Identify and explain examples of bias, prejudice, and stereotyping, and how they contribute to conflict in a society
 * E.8.14 Describe cooperation and interdependence among individuals, groups, and nations, such as helping others in times of crisis
 * A.8.11 Give examples of the causes and consequences of current global issues, such as the expansion of global markets, the urbanization of the developing world, the consumption of natural resources, and the extinction of species, and suggest possible responses by various individuals, groups, and nations
 * C.8.7 Locate, organize, and use relevant information to understand an issue of public concern, take a position, and advocate the position in a debate

=**Social Studies and Service Learning Objectives**: =

Upon successful completion of this unit, the students will be able to:
 * Understand the different groups of people that suffer from hunger.
 * Make connections from their lives to understand what it means to be hungry.
 * Serve others in a time of crisis and raise awareness about hunger

=**Assessment**: = =To download the rubric for this project please click the attachment below.=