Food and Water Security

End Childhood Hunger
Share Our Strength 
 
Share Our Strength offers programs through which students can Investigate the food needs in their community and address those needs by planning a food drive, restocking a local food pantry, or participating in the Great American Bake Sale to end childhood hunger in the United States.

Links to resources containing related Facing the Future lessons:

• Connections All Around: Me, My Food, and My Environment 

Getting Started, A Guide for Creating School Gardens as Outdoor Classrooms
Center for Ecoliteracy 

This guide shows how teachers and students can become advocates for community gardens or plan and develop their own gardens at school. The produce that is harvested can make healthy snacks for the class or be donated to a local food pantry.

Links to resources containing related Facing the Future lessons:

• Connections All Around: Me, My Food, and My Environment 

Anno's Magic Seeds
Mitsumasa Anno

In this 40-page book, Jack finds his harvest dessimated after a storm, but since he had been keeping reserve seeds from his harvest every year he was still able feed his family.

Links to resources containing related Facing the Future lessons:

• Systems: Problems and Fixes

Book  |  ISBN 9780698116184  |  $

One Well: The Story of Water on Earth
Rochelle Strauss

This story shows how raindrops, lakes, underground rivers, and glaciers are part of a single global well, and how water has the power to sprout a seed, quench a thirst, provide a habitat, generate energy and sustain life. How we treat the water in the well will affect every species on the planet.

Links to resources containing related Facing the Future lessons:

• Connections All Around: Me, My Food, and My Environment
• Systems: Problems and Fixes

Book  |  ISBN 9781553379546  |  $

Agriculture for Children DVD and Video Series

This video series shows field trips to the farms, factories, and markets that provide us with the food we eat, clothing we wear, and places we live. Viewers follow the journey food makes from farms to our tables; learn how crops are grown and harvested, prepared, packaged, and transported to stores; and discover how technology has influenced all phases of food production. Sites range from orchards to rice fields, and the series explores how climate and weather affect the types of crops people grow and the kinds of animals they raise.

Links to resources containing related Facing the Future lessons:

• Connections All Around: Me, My Food, and My Environment 

Vrrrooommm! Farming for K-I-D-S
Rainbow Communications

Exploring a modern farm and its seasonal preparation, planting, growing, and harvesting procedures, this 30-minute video shows how technology is linked to agriculture, the use of natural resources, and transportation.

Links to resources containing related Facing the Future lessons:

• Connections All Around: Me, My Food, and My Environment 

Agriculture for Kids
KidsOLR 

This website contains over 8,000 links to educational resources for kids in science, math, geography, history, and language arts. Check out the "Agriculture for Kids" link for food security issues.

Links to resources containing related Facing the Future lessons:

• Connections All Around: Me, My Food, and My Environment 

Water Planet Challenge

The Water Planet Challenge will give you the information and materials you need to help your middle and high school students take action to protect and restore our planet's natural resources while teaching to key standards.

Links to resources containing related Facing the Future lessons:

• Every Drop Counts!
• Farming for the Future

World Water Monitoring Day
Water Environment Federation and the International Water Association

Collect and share data on your local rivers, lakes, and estuaries by contacting a local water quality monitoring agency or becoming part of this global initiative.

Links to resources containing related Facing the Future lessons:

• Every Drop Counts!

Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource
Marq de Villiers

A 368-page account of how global population growth, unchecked development, and cross-border struggles are stressing and depleting the world's fresh water supply.

Links to resources containing related Facing the Future lessons:

• Every Drop Counts!

The Food and Agricultural Organization
United Nations 

The UN's Food and Agricultural Organization leads international efforts to end hunger, serving both developed and developing countries.

Links to resources containing related Facing the Future lessons:

• Farming for the Future

Local Harvest

This site is a nationwide directory of farmers markets, community supported agriculture, and other local and sustainable food sources.

Links to resources containing related Facing the Future lessons:

• Farming for the Future

Office of Water
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

The EPA's Office of Water provides information about adopting a watershed, testing your water knowledge, and wastewater management.

Links to resources containing related Facing the Future lessons:

• Every Drop Counts!
• Meeting Essential Human Needs: Food Water and Energy
• Global Trends - Food, Water, and Income

Water Calculator
The Field Museum

This interactive, online Water Calculator provides an in-depth look at home water use. While students tour a virtual house, they click on various water-using appliances, answer questions about their water use, and learn water-saving tips.

Links to resources containing related Facing the Future lessons:

• Every Drop Counts!
• Meeting Essential Human Needs: Food Water and Energy
• Global Trends - Food, Water, and Income

Water 1st International

Water 1st helps families in the world's poorest communities to implement community-managed projects that integrate water supply, sanitation, and health education.

Links to resources containing related Facing the Future lessons:

• Every Drop Counts!
• Meeting Essential Human Needs: Food Water and Energy
• Global Trends - Food, Water, and Income

World Food Program
United Nations

The World Food Program helps aid hungry people by responding to emergencies with food supplies and also works to prevent hunger by building stronger communities in areas without stable food supplies.

Links to resources containing related Facing the Future lessons:

• Meeting Essential Human Needs: Food Water and Energy
• Global Trends - Food, Water, and Income
• Connections All Around: Me, My Food, and My Environment 
• Farming for the Future

Water Planet Challenge

The Water Planet Challenge will give you the information and materials you need to help your middle and high school students take action to protect and restore our planet's natural resources while teaching to key standards.

Links to resources containing related Facing the Future lessons:

• Every Drop Counts!
• Farming for the Future

Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Foods
Gary Paul Nabhan 
 
This 336-page book chronicles a year spent by the author eating only from his local foodshed (growing, fishing, and gathering). 

Links to resources containing related Facing the Future lessons:

• Farming for the Future

Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet
Frances Moore Lappé and Anna Lappé

This 400-page book includes the stories of subsistence farmers from five continents, along with an analysis of hunger, calls for action, learning resources, and recipes. 

Links to resources containing related Facing the Future lessons:

• Farming for the Future

Last Oasis: Facing Water Scarcity
Sandra Postel 

In this 239-page book, Sandra Postel explains that decades of profligacy and mismanagement of the world's water resources have produced signs of shortages and environmental destruction.

Links to resources containing related Facing the Future lessons:

• Every Drop Counts!
• Meeting Essential Human Needs: Food, Water, and Energy
• Global Trends: Food, Water, and Income

Book  |  ISBN 0393317447  |  $

What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets
Peter Menzel 

This 335-page book features a photographic collection of 80 people from 30 countries and the food they eat in one day.

Links to resources containing related Facing the Future lessons:

• Solving Algebraic Equations: Food Choices
• Meeting Essential Human Needs: Food, Water, and Energy
• Global Trends: Food, Water, and Income

Book  |  ISBN 0393317447  |  $

Factory Farm Map
Food  & Water Watch

Use this interactive map to find out how many CAFOs (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations) are in your neighborhood. The map can be filtered to show different animal types and years.

Links to resources containing related Facing the Future lessons:

• Watch Where You Step!
• Mapping the Impact!

Interactive Map  |  Free

Bitter Seeds
Micha X. Peled

This 88-minute video explores the future of how we grow things, weighing in on the worldwide debate over the changes created by industrial agriculture.

Links to resources containing related Facing the Future lessons:

• Meeting Essential Human Needs: Food, Water, and Energy
• Global Trends: Food, Water, and Income

FLOW: For Love of Water
Irena Salina

This 84-minute video examines the growing privatization of the world’s dwindling fresh water supply, with a focus on politics, pollution, and human rights. The video includes interviews with scientists and activists.

Links to resources containing related Facing the Future lessons:

• Every Drop Counts!
• Meeting Essential Human Needs: Food, Water, and Energy
• Global Trends: Food, Water, and Income

Food Rules 
Michael Pollan and Marija Jacimovic

Based on Michael Pollan's talk "Food Rules" given at the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, this 2-minute animation demonstrates the inequitable distribution of food and the importance of eating a plant-based diet.

Links to resources containing related Facing the Future lessons:

• Meeting Essential Human Needs: Food, Water, and Energy
• Global Trends: Food, Water, and Income
• Farming for the Future

Super Size Me
Morgan Spurlock 

In this 96-minute video, Morgan Spurlock documents his experiment to eat nothing but three McDonald's meals a day for 30 consecutive days, providing an entertaining and disturbing narrative about the cultural trend toward obesity.

Links to resources containing related Facing the Future lessons:

• Partners for Health
• Meeting Essential Human Needs: Food, Water, and Energy
• Global Trends: Food, Water, and Income

Waterlife
Bullfrog Films

This 109-minute documentary reveals the beauty and complex toxicity of the Great Lakes, the largest remaining supply of fresh water on Earth. Along the way, Waterlife shows viewers the Great Lakes as they might appear to a seagull, a fish, or a water molecule.

Links to resources containing related Facing the Future lessons:

• Every Drop Counts!
• Meeting Essential Human Needs: Food, Water, and Energy
• Global Trends: Food, Water, and Income

The Community Food Security Coalition 
 
The Community Food Security Coalition (CFSC) is a North American organization dedicated to building strong, sustainable, local, and regional food systems that ensure access to affordable, nutritious, and culturally appropriate food to all people at all times.

Links to resources containing related Facing the Future lessons:

• Farming for the Future

Website  |  Free

I Am the Ocean
 
With every breath we take, every drop of water we drink, we’re connected to the ocean. It is our life support system. I Am the Ocean is a global call to action to raise public awareness and move people to help protect this vital natural resource.

Links to resources containing related Facing the Future lessons:

• Every Drop Counts!

Website  |  Free

Seafood Watch
Monterey Bay Aquarium

For recommendations about which seafood products to avoid or buy, check out Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch guide.

Links to resources containing related Facing the Future lessons:

• Fishing for the Future 

Shout
Smithsonian Institute

The 2012 Shout series focuses on water, with archived content addressing the impact of rising nitrogen levels on water quality, the disappearance of amphibians around the world, and innovative housing designs in post-Katrina New Orleans. Shout also offers Smithsonian Badges, a program in which kids can earn video game-style digital badges of achievement.

Links to resources containing related Facing the Future lessons:

• Every Drop Counts!

WaterPartners International

Working in partnership with donors and those in need of safe water, WaterPartners has helped thousands of people in developing countries obtain accessible, sustainable, community-level water supplies.

Links to resources containing related Facing the Future lessons:

• Every Drop Counts!