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Pre-Work

Poverty Perspective
Session Title: Poverty Perspective
Session Length: 50 minutes
Participant Demography: new members

How large is my audience?

What age range is my audience?
What does my audience really care about?
How will I relate to them?
What is the room set up and A/V
requirements/availability?
What is the length of the workshop?

Supplies:

life happens cards (one set for whole workshop)

family profiles (one for each group of 3 or 4 students)
budget costs (one for each group of 3 or 4 students)
budget worksheet workbook page (one per group)
workbook fact page (One for each student)
calculators (one or two per group)
computer or smart phone for each group

Flip Charts:

processing questions main point 1

Price Is Right Poverty Facts
Lincoln Poverty Aid Organizations

Outlook

Participants will know or be able to:

Objective 1: Create a budget for a low-income family.
Objective 2: Understand how poverty affects our communities, nation, and world.

What are the main points of this

workshop?
How can I draw a mental map to let
audience members know where were
headed?
How can I engage participants in the
overarching topic of this workshop?

Engagement Link
Approximately 5 minutes

Stranded Scattegories:
Everyone find a partner. When I say Stranded write down as
many things you and your partner can think of that you would take
with you if you were stranded on a desert island. You have 30
seconds.
Who has the most items written down?
Please read your list. Everyone else cross off the items on your list
if the team who wrote the most as it on their list. The team with the

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most items that no other team thought of is the winner.
Repeat the process.

Engagement Preview
Approximately 1 minutes

How many of you have ever volunteered at a city mission or a food

bank? Who has seen a homeless person on the street of a city?
Share with the people next to you how those experiences made you
feel.
Elicit responses.
During this session, well explore what a budget might look like for
a low-income family and develop an understanding of how poverty
affects our world and how we can affect it.

Transition
What will I say to help participants move
from the Engagement into Wisdom 1 of
the workshop?

Wisdom Evidence 1
Approximately 20 minutes

Just as we considered the necessities of life in scategories, many

people must make tough decisions about necessities in life every
day. There are families who live every day in poverty and must
make tough decisions about wants and needs in life they must limit
or live without.
Outlook 1: Create a budget for a low income family.
Divide participants into an even number of teams. Ideally in teams of three or four.
Larger groups if needed based on number of supplies. Give each group the lowest
budget family scenario. (Could also use family #2 or #3)

What will I do and say to prove the Main

Point to be factual?
How will I illustrate the Main Point for
the participants?
How will I engage the participants in
learning the information associated with
the Main Point?

Wisdom Main Point 1

Approximately 4 minutes

Find two people from different groups and discuss the

following processing questions.
Processing Questions:

What is the Main Point?

What did your family experience during the

activity?
How did the families' financial situations
change?
How were the families' experiences the same?

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How were they different?
How did wealth affect families' ability to
withstand the "Life Happens" moments?
How did wealth affect families' abilities to
provide 1) basic necessities, 2) the best
education possible for their children, 3) health
care, and 4) fun time?
Elicit responses from smaller groups to discuss within the
larger group.

Wisdom Action 1
Approximately 1 minutes

Living on a low-income budget is tough, and there are a

variety of factors that affect a familys budget and income
status. Understanding this budget can help us understand
how we can contribute to the solution.

How will I help students act on the

Wisdom 1 Main Point?

Transition
Approximately 0 minutes

Now that we know what it is like to budget for a low income

family, lets find out more about poverty in the world.

What will I say to help participants move

from Wisdom 1 to Wisdom 2?

Wisdom Evidence 2
Approximately 10 minute

Outlook 2: Understand how poverty affects our community,

nation, and world.
Brainstorm with a partner what kind of effect poverty can have on an
individual, family, or child.

What will I do and say to prove the Main

Point to be factual?
How will I illustrate the Main Point for
the participants?
How will I engage the participants in
learning the information associated with
the Main Point?

The price is right: Poverty Edition

In your best game show voice, randomly select four students to come play the
price is right. Have members answer the first flip-chart question (In the
price is right the winner is the closest to the true number without going over).
Have the top two remain in the game and select two new members to answer
the next question, continuing until the game is over.
On the second to last question, dont bring up more members so that a
winner can be declared on the last question.

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After each question is read and members have told you their guesses, reveal
the correct number. Have all students write down the correct answer in their
workbook.
Flipchart: (use sticky notes to cover correct answers and then
reveal during each round of the game)
United States
1. There are 9.1 million families living in poverty in the
United States.
2. 11.2% of the population lives in poverty
3. 14.7 million children are living in poverty in America.
4. In the USA 45.3 million people in poverty.
5. The federal poverty guideline for a family of four is
$23,050
6. The median household income in the U.S. is $50,054.
Global
1. Almost half the world over three billion people
live on less than $2.50 a day. (In the budget activity you
lived on $44 per day)
2. At least 80% of humanity lives on less than $10 a day
3. 22,000 children die each day due to poverty
4. 1.6 billion people a quarter of humanity live
without electricity
Nebraska
1. 12.8% of Nebraskans live below the poverty level.
2. 13.8% of Nebraskans live with food insecurity.
3. Number of people living in poverty in Nebraska
239,430

Wisdom Main Point 2

Approximately 1 minutes

What is the Main Point?

When we think of poverty we often think of malnourished

people in other third world countries. Many Americans dont
realize the impact poverty has in their own communities.

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Wisdom Action 2
Approximately 7 minutes

How will I help students act on

the Wisdom 2 Main Point?

Final Review
Approximately 2 minutes
How will I re-phrase my key Wisdom
points at the end?
What closing thoughts will I offer the
participants?
What is the final call to action for the
participants?
What do I want the participants to
remember?

Reflection
What worked? Why?
What didnt work? Why?
What feedback did you receive from your
audience?
What level of influence do you believe the
content/delivery had?
How will you deliver this workshop
differently next time?

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Have each group research one of the following organizations located in
Lincoln that help ease the affects of poverty. Groups give a 30 second
presentation on the organization, what it does, and how FFA members can
get involved.
Flipchart: Lincoln Poverty Aid Organizations
Food Bank Of Lincoln
Nebraska Appleseed
Nebraska Housing Developers Association
People's City Mission
Center for People in Need
Community Action of Nebraska
Walk and talk:
How did it make you feel to be in a poverty situation?
What could we do to help those in poverty in our community?
How can we help those in poverty on a national and global scale?