class=\"MsoNormal\">Ask students if they’ve ever eaten freshly baked bread before. (Many students have, however, some have not.) Ask students if they think everyone around the world has had a taste of freshly baked bread. (No.) Ask why they think this is. Talk about how food costs money, and not everyone has access to enough money to buy the food they need for their families. Talk about how the bread you are eating today is healthy because it was baked with nutritious ingredients. Discuss how usually, the bread that costs the least amount of money is also the least healthy. Discuss the problem of childhood hunger—how many children around the world do not have enough food to eat. Using an Elmo or projector, show students the free/reduced lunch information or map you have gathered about your school or community. (For schools in the Grand Rapids, Michigan community, use the “mapping hunger” section of the Kids’ Food Basket website.) Say, “We might even have students here in our own school who worry about having enough food to eat.”

class=\"MsoNormal\">Introduce the focus question. Ask students what they think they could do to help with this problem of childhood hunger in their community. Tell students that if they were to go out and do some of those things, it would be called service. Another fancy word for service is “philanthropy.” Define philanthropy as "giving of your time, talent, or treasure for the common good.” Ask students to think of ways they could provide service or philanthropy. Discuss the idea that service can be done in many different creative formats. You could play music for the elderly, host a bake sale, or sew blankets for the homeless. Have the students come up with other creative philanthropy suggestions.

class=\"MsoNormal\">Tell students that the government helps many people who don’t have enough money to buy food, but that the government can’t help everyone or provide for every need because there are just too many. Tell students that there are many wonderful organizations in most communities that help people in need. These organizations are often run as nonprofits. Define what a nonprofit organization is in comparison with a for-profit organization or business. Introduce your local meal-provision organization. Give students an overview on how this organization works. (Many organizations have kid-friendly videos or materials that can be used to help explain their work.) If you live in the Grand Rapids, Michigan community, the Kids’ Food Basket organization has fantastic information about how they operate on their website. If your organization uses the “sack meal” method, explain the contents of a Sack Supper, as well as the procedure used to pack and serve these meals. (The Kids’ Food Basket video in the materials section is a helpful view of the “life cycle” of these meals.)

class=\"MsoNormal\">Ask students how they think these organizations get the food needed to make the meals. It may be helpful to draw an example “Sack Supper” on your whiteboard and all of its ingredients. Remind students that these are nonprofit organizations, so they rely on the help of many different groups and people for food donations and money. Discuss the different possibilities of acquiring all the needed ingredients. (For example, a local grocery store might donate all the granola bars needed each month. A local church may donate some of their money, which pays for all of the peanut butter needed.) Talk about the "financial" aspect of these organizations. Tell students that they can be a part of helping with these financial aspects. Students can donate food items or money to the organization and make a big difference. Pose this question to students: “Do you think it would be more helpful to donate 10 loaves of bread or $100?” Talk about how organizations like these can often get more for the money because they get price breaks to help people in need.

class=\"MsoNormal\">Ask students why they think we tasted bread at the beginning of this lesson. Tell them that we will be doing a fundraiser that involves baking fresh bread. Ask students if they enjoy cooking or baking, or if they've ever baked with someone before. Most students have. Tell the students that they will be baking fresh bread to sell to the community. The money collected from the bread sales will be donated to the local nonprofit meal-provision organization. Tell students that this is a fundraiser and define this term if necessary. Ask students where they think they could get the ingredients for baking the bread. If your students come from financially-able families, they can sign up to bring in the needed ingredients. If this isn’t possible for your classroom, discuss the idea of asking a local grocery store to donate the ingredients. If you will be asking for donations, the students should write a letter explaining their project and their needs. (This can be written as a whole class, or in groups of students doing collaborative writing.) Once ready, the teacher should deliver it to the store along with a teacher-written cover letter. Follow up communication and pick-up arrangements will be necessary.

class=\"MsoNormal\">Share the recipe with the class, so they understand what steps and ingredients will be involved.Take this opportunity for your students to practice their nonfiction reading comprehension skills (i.e. reading headings, captions, analyzing photographs and other graphics, reading the text itself). At this time, also go over the “Baking Bread Safety Tips” handout in the materials section.

class=\"MsoNormal\">Have students complete the attached handout called "Service Planner." On this handout, the students will identify the three steps of the project. The first being baking the bread, the second being selling the bread, the third being bringing the funds to your local organization. (This will help students internalize the steps of the project, as well as practice summarization skills.)

Day Two (2.5 hours, or whatever cooking time is necessary for your bread recipe)

class=\"MsoNormal\">The students will work in small groups to bake bread with a parent volunteer. Use the schedule you have created with your parent volunteers to be sure that each child gets a turn to bake some bread. If your classroom population doesn’t allow for many parent volunteers, this project can also be done whole-class with the teacher supervising. Take your students to the approved kitchen and put them into groups, responsible for different portions of the recipe.

class=\"MsoNormal\">The students should set up a table in a good location for visitors (perhaps in the school lobby or office) where people can come and purchase the bread. Ask students for ideas on where and how they can sell the bread. This is an excellent place to incorperate youth voice into your project. A volunteer can stand at the table, or you can use the honor system. Have students create a sign with pricing and information about the organization that will benefit to be placed on the table along with a cash box. Prior to making these signs, have a discussion about it. Tell the students that even just making the signs is an act of service because you are advocating for the organization. Ask students if they have ever seen a commercial or billboard advocate for an organization before. Talk about ways to grab people’s attention with the signs and posters. You can split your students into groups to make a few different signs, posters, and advertisements for their sale to post around the school and community.