Hunger Red Rover: Destroying Hunger Myths
Summary: This team-building activity will
teach participants about hunger myths.
Time: 15 to 20 minutes
Age: Fourth grade to adult
Materials: Question and answer sheet for the facilitator
Preparation: None
Group size: 10 to 30
Procedure:
1. Divide the class (ideally a class of 20)
into two equal lines.
2. Explain that you will ask a series of questions
and that the answers will be numbers between one and 10. Have
group members discuss each question for 60 seconds and decide
on the correct answer. Tell teams to present their answer by asking
that many students to step forward from the line.
3. Tell them the correct answer.
4. After finishing the questions, lead a brief discussion
about what the students thought about the activity and how their
ideas might have changed. See discussion questions below.
Other Details:
Questions and answers
1. How many people out of 10 who receive emergency
food boxes from the OFB Network are homeless?
Answer: One in 10 people who receive food from OFB are homeless.
2. How many people in 10 who ask OFB network agencies
for emergency food live in a house where at least one person is
working?
Answer: Almost five in 10 people who ask for emergency food live in a
house where at least one adult is working.
3. One in how many people in Oregon asked the OFB
Network for emergency food at least one time in the last year?
Answer: One in five people in Oregon asked the OFB Network for
emergency food last year.
4. One in how many children in Oregon and Clark
County, Wash., eat meals from an emergency food box?
Answer: Almost one in every four children in Oregon and Clark County,
Wash., eat meals from emergency food boxes.
5. How many pounds of food can OFB collect
and distribute for each dollar donated?
Answer: OFB can collect and distribute five pounds of food each
dollar donated through its food distribution program.
Discussion Questions
1. Who did you think was hungry in Oregon and Clark
County, Wash., at the start of this game?
2. How is that different from what you learned?
3. How can you use the information you learned today
to teach others?
Used with permission from Atlanta Community Food
Bank
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