Handout 6.4: Neighborhood Map and Price Comparison

Name: ____________________________________ Date: ______________ Period: ______

Everything in this handout is made up for class. The neighborhood is not a real place. The prices are written to look like a real Long Island supermarket and a real corner store. Nobody is being described here.

Part 1. The two words

Food insecurity means _____________________________________________________

Food desert means ________________________________________________________

The four things that create a food desert

Part 2. The neighborhood

Maple Park. About 4,000 people live in the twelve blocks below. There is one full supermarket, three convenience stores, one bus line, and no sidewalk on Route 9 between Elm and the supermarket.

Scale: 1 inch on this map = 0.4 miles. One block = about 0.1 miles.

          ROUTE 9  (no sidewalk between Elm and the store)
  =======================================================================
                                                          [ SUPERMARKET ]
                                                           Fresh Foods
                                                           open 7 to 9
  OAK STREET
  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
   [HOME A]        [C-STORE 1]
                    Quick Stop
                    open 6 to 11
  ELM STREET
  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
                          [C-STORE 2]              [HOME B]
                           Corner Mart
                           open 24 hours
  PINE STREET
  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
   [HOME C]                          [C-STORE 3]
   (no car)                           Gas and Go
                                      open 5 to 12
  BIRCH STREET
  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
      *  BUS STOP (route 12, one bus every hour, 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.)
         The bus goes to the supermarket. The ride is 9 minutes.

Measure it

Use a ruler and the scale. Measure straight-line distance, then add 20 percent for turns.

Highlight the walking route from Home C to the supermarket. How many blocks is it? ______

Which home has the hardest trip to the supermarket? ______

Name two reasons: ___________________________________________________________

What would make it easier? Name one change to the neighborhood, not to the family.

Part 3. Twenty dollars, two stores

You are shopping for one dinner for a family of four. You have $20. Build a cart at each store.

Fresh Foods Supermarket (1.4 miles from Home C)

Supermarket cart total: $__________

What is the dinner? _________________________________________________________

Does it feed four? yes / no

Corner Mart (0.2 miles from Home C, open 24 hours)

Corner Mart cart total: $__________

What is the dinner? _________________________________________________________

Does it feed four? yes / no

The comparison

The difference in dollars: the supermarket cart bought ____________ pounds of food for $20 and the Corner Mart cart bought ____________ pounds for $20.

The difference in food: in one sentence, what does the supermarket family eat that the Corner Mart family does not?

The item that was not available at all at Corner Mart: ____________________

Part 4. Five responses. Pick two.

My top two, with evidence from the map or the price lists:

Choice 1: ______________________ Evidence: ____________________________________

Choice 2: ______________________ Evidence: ____________________________________

Exit card

A food desert is ______________________________________________________, and the thing that would help the most is ______________________ because ___________________________________________________________________________.