Example of Student Work on Sustainable Agriculture

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     After a unit on world hunger and global trade, freshman students created a 'Monopoly'-style game to demonstrate the links among the loss of family farms in the US, the global consolidation of agriculture, & the impacts on world hunger.

Some of the Concepts, Standards, and Skills Addressed by this Activity:

• explaining how international trade patterns affect different regions
• researching and documenting important public issues
• understanding relationships between economic and social systems