19,000 Children Died from Hunger Today: A C3 Framework Inquiry Project
Abstract
World hunger, because it is a profound moral and global issue, is an excellent topic for a C3 inquiry project in social studies classes. The College, Career, and Civic Life Framework (C3 Framework) for Social Studies State Standards was created to foster student’s intellectual capacity to apply social science research methods—developing compelling questions, formulating hypotheses, collecting and analyzing data, evaluating empirical evidence, and drawing conclusions—in order to take informed actions as citizens in a pluralistic democracy and highly complex and interdependent global economy. Thus, the C3 Framework is designed to focus on the social studies themes of history, geography, civics, and economics. This paper will create an original application of the C3 Framework using the theme of world hunger to demonstrate how students can create an inquiry project requiring research, reading, writing, and technology to produce a curriculum unit plan that could be implemented in social studies courses.