Social Action Plan Presentation – 10% of final mark

The Task:

A Social Action plan is a plan that identifies a problem and identifies and carries out solutions to the problem. Your task is to create a social action plan that improves FOOD SECURITY focusing on SUSTAINABLE practices. You can look at food security locally or globally. The choice is yours. Presentation should be about 10 minutes. I will cut you off at 15 minutes.

Warnings:

-If you are not ready you will be skipped.

-I will NOT accept any excuses. BACK UP YOUR WORK.

-You will NOT have a chance to add in in-text citations later so make sure your have them in your presentation.

The Steps and Timeline:

Step 1 – research CURRENT (last 3 months) issues in food security and pick one that you are interested in.

Step 2 – brainstorm a sustainable solution to your problem.

Step 3 – start researching and create your statement of need

Step 4 – continue researching and explain project description

Timeline

Day 1 – complete step 1

Day 2 – complete step 2 and 3

Day 3 - complete half of step 4

Day 4 – finish step 4 and check all citations are completed.

Day 5 – put finishing touches on, practice and time your presentation.

You need to choose a topic from ONE of the topics below. Examples of each topic are found on later pages

  1. Behaviour – study processes for adopting and implementing more sustainable food solutions
  2. Design – create a system to produce and/or distribute food more sustainably.
  3. Technology – Invent a device to produce, process or distribute food more sustainably.

Your presentation needs to include:

1. A Statement of Need

This should be an explanation of why your proposed social action project is needed. It should identify who the stakeholders are—that is, the people or groups with an interest in the development of the project (for example, the people being helped by the project, the people planning and implementing the project, and/or other organizations that may be involved in the project’s development and implementation). This should be researched with evidence that your actual problem exists.

2. Project Description

This should be a detailed account of what you propose to do. It should include:

  • An explanation of the objective;
  • The specific, step-by-step tasks that need to be implemented in order to achieve the objective;
  • A timeline for the implementation of each of the steps identified
  • Potential problems you foresee occurring
  • A discussion of how you plan to assess the success of the project (how will you know if you have achieved your goal?)

3. Class engagement

You are required to engage the class throughout your presentation. You should not talk at the class for 10 minutes.

These are general EXAMPLES only. You should be coming up with your own more specific ideas.

Topic One: Behavior

Study processes for adopting and implementing more sustainable food solutions.

PROJECT EXAMPLES

  • Document a personal or social quality that contributes to maximizing nutrition or demonstrates an intervention, at the personal, local or societal level, to encourage people to adopt more sustainable eating behaviors
  • Increase smarter eating; How can we better extend education about possibilities for sustainable food abundance?
  • Explore the psychology of food advertising and how it shapes our ideas about

food quality and value

Topic Two: Design

Conceive a system to produce and/or distribute food more equitably and sustainably.

PROJECT EXAMPLES

  • Design a living/working space (a building, farm, suburb, town, or city) that has sustainably higher yields with lower energy or water consumption, through improved farming, processing and distribution practices
  • Self-contained gardens “What does it mean to be Organic?”
  • Community water conservation plans

Topic Three: Technology

Invent a device or redesign a method to produce, process or distribute food more sustainably.

PROJECT EXAMPLES

  • Solar Cooking to reduce dependency on wood gathering and burning; other renewable energy
  • Community Bio-digesters and reducing stresses on the land
  • Water purification and conservation
  • Facilitating sustainable undersea food production and harvesting

Level 1 and 2 – has missed information or demonstrated limited understanding / Level 3 – meets expectations / Level 4 – exceeds expectations
Knowledge / Use of APA formatting
Choice of resources/citations to support your statement of need.
Understanding of concept of sustainability (is your project sustainable?)
Thinking / Clear statement of need including identification of problem and stakeholders in problem.
Your concept and how it fixes the problem
Originality of idea.
Communication / Presentation skills and organization of PPT
Spelling and grammar is grade appropriate
Application / Complete, thoughtful and thorough project description
Practicality of concept