As an educator, you may already know which child or children in your classroom or school doesn’t have enough to eat. As a parent, you may struggle with food insecurity in your family. As a family, you may have the desire to assist other families with children. We hope these resources will help you help others in need.

Ways to Help
Hunger-Related Curriculum
Games & Activities
Useful Links

Ways to Help

• Invite a speaker from Connecticut Food Bank to address your class or school. Click here to contact us.
• Take a field trip to Connecticut Food Bank or local food pantry to see first hand how donated food gets to people in need. Click here for information.
• Do classroom activities that address hunger and poverty issues. Click here for hunger-related curriculum and lesson plans. Click here for Games & Activities.
• Help your class plan a food drive or fundraiser (not just during the holidays). Click here for tips on organizing a food drive
• Encourage children to offer their uneaten and unopened lunch/snacks to others.
• Help your class write a letter to the editor of the local newspaper addressing the issue of hunger and food insecurity in your community.
• Help your class write a story about hunger for the school newsletter or parent/teacher publication.

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Educating Children About Hunger Issues

The issue of hunger and food insecurity can be easily integrated into many different areas of classroom curriculum – social studies, nutrition/health education, community/current affairs, arithmetic, English/writing, and other. The more children learn that not everyone has enough healthy food to eat every day, the closer we can get to alleviating hunger in our communities.

To view curriculum at a variety of classroom levels, visit the following websites:

• Feeding Minds
• Food Force (includes hunger-education video game)
• Kids Can Make A Difference
• Know Hunger
• Hunger 101 - An interactive education program addressing the issues of hunger, food security and poverty on national, state and local levels. This link and all materials are courtesy of the Atlanta Community Food Bank.

Games & Activities

Click here for games and activities that will help your students learn more about hunger while having fun.

Useful Links

Click here for links to useful hunger-related websites.

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