Lesson Plan: The Economics of School Lunch
Grades 8-12
The federal school lunch program serves nearly 5 billion meals annually, with benefits for the health and academic performance of the 29 million students who take part. Retro Report traces the transformation of the program from a 1946 initiative addressing malnutrition into an effort caught up in debates about everything from the federal deficit to teenage obesity to government intervention in people’s lives. Students will examine the economics of the program by the costs and benefits of school lunch, including opportunity costs, and develop a plan to improve the school lunch program.
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