Food, Farming, and Justice: A Role Play on La Vía Campesina
Teaching Activity. By Bill Bigelow, Chris Buehler, Julie Treick O'Neill, and Tim Swinehart. Rethinking Schools.
This role play invites students to take on identities of La Vía Campesina activists around the world, to compare/contrast circumstances in order to discover the common goal of “food sovereignty.”
Time Periods: 20th Century, 21st Century
Themes: Climate Justice, Environment, Food, Organizing, World History/Global Studies
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Hunger on Trial: An Activity on the Irish Potato Famine and Its Meaning for Today
Teaching Activity. By Bill Bigelow. Rethinking Schools.
A trial role play helps students reflect on responsibility for the deaths of Irish peasants during the so-called potato famine.
Time Periods: 19th Century, Early 19th Century: 1800 - 1849
Themes: Food, Immigration, Social Class, World History/Global Studies
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Where Are the Climate Change Superheroes? Systems Thinking and Climate Activism in the Children’s Eternal Rainforest
Teaching Activity. By Eric Fishman. Rethinking Schools.
An elementary school teacher developed the engaging Quetzal Conundrum game to help students understand the impact of climate change in Costa Rica.
Time Periods: 21st Century
Themes: Climate Justice, Environment, Food, World History/Global Studies
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Chew on This
Book - Non-fiction. By Eric Schlosser. 2006.
Geared to the young consumer, takes a bite out of fast-food industry.
Time Periods: 20th Century, 2001 - Present
Themes: Food
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Before Columbus: The Americas of 1491
Book - Non-fiction. By Charles C. Mann. 2009.
An illustrated book for young readers based on 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus.
Time Periods: Colonization: 1492 - 1764
Themes: Food, Native American
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Pies from Nowhere: How Georgia Gilmore Sustained the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Picture book. By Dee Romito. Illustrated by Laura Freeman. 40 pp. 2018.
The story of Georgia Gilmore and the Club from Nowhere, a grassroots project to provide food and funds for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Time Periods: Cold War: 1945 - 1960
Themes: African American, Food, Civil Rights Movements
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The Global Banquet: The Politics of Food
Film. Old Dog Documentaries. 2001. 56 minutes.
Politics of global food-security.
Themes: Environment, Food, World History/Global Studies
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King Corn: You Are What You Eat
Film. Directed by Aaron Woolf. 2007. 88 minutes.
Two friends raise one acre of corn to understand how the subsidized crop drives our fast-food nation.
Time Periods: 21st Century, 2001 - Present
Themes: Environment, Food
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When the Hunger Was Upon Us
Poem. By Nigel Gray.
Poem about the causes and impact of the Irish Potato Famine.
Time Periods: 19th Century, Early 19th Century: 1800 - 1849
Themes: Environment, Food, Social Class, World History/Global Studies
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April 17, 1996: Landless Workers Movement Protesters Murdered by Brazilian Government
Brazil's military police gunned down 19 peasant farm workers in the Via Campesina movement who were marching for land sovereignty in 1996.
Time Periods: 20th Century, Post-Civil Rights Era: 1975 - 2000
Themes: Climate Justice, Food, Labor, Laws & Citizen Rights, Social Class, World History/Global Studies
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Aug. 15, 1988: Food Not Bombs Volunteers Arrested
Nine volunteers were arrested for sharing food and literature at Golden Gate Park.
Time Periods: 20th Century, Post-Civil Rights Era: 1975 - 2000
Themes: Food, Organizing
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June 4, 2010: Haitian Farmers Burn “Gift” of Monsanto Seeds
Approximately 10,000 Haitian farmers protested the donation of 475 tons of Monsanto hybrid seeds.
Time Periods: 21st Century, 2001 - Present
Themes: Environment, Food, World History/Global Studies
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