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Units For Primary

Unsheltered Lives: An Interdisciplinary Resource and Activity Guide for Teaching about Homelessness in Grades K-12
Alex Messinger
Unsheltered Lives is a collaborative effort of the Committee on Temporary Shelter, VISTA, and the Vermont Department of Education. In 1990 Alex Messinger, then a VISTA volunteer at the Committee on...
Homelessness: A Teacher's Guide
Ethos Strategy Group
  Division: Primary Subject: Visual Arts, Music, Language Arts, Media, Social Studies Includes Learning Goals and Objectives Includes Lesson Ideas Includes ideas for Assessment As, For and Of...
Teaching Guide - Homelessness
Toronto Disaster Relief Committee
TDRC
Division: Primary Subjects: Language Arts, Social Studies, Health and Physical Education Complete website available (http://tdrc.net/resources/public/TeachingGuide.htm) Includes lesson plan ideas...
Teacher Toolkit: A resource package designed to assist educators in teaching students about homelessness in Waterloo Region
Division: Kindergarten, Primary, Junior, Intermediate Subjects: Social Studies, Language (writing and oral communication), Visual Arts Includes 3 part lesson ideas Includes connections between...
Close to Home: Teaching Kids About Homelessness Through the Arts
Wendy Grace Evans
Division: Junior - Intermediate Subject: Visual Arts Includes ideas for a multi-media curriculum engages students and teachers with essays written by people who have experienced homelessness,...
Day in the Life of a Homeless Person: Lesson Plan
Valerie Williams
Division: Junior Subject: Language Arts Complete website available at (http://www.learningtogive.org/units/i-can-do/day-life-homeless-person) A lesson idea Integrates use of multimedia Reading...
Fact Sheet and Lesson Plan for Third-Fifth Grade Students
Division: Late Primary - Junior Subject: Social Studies Ideas for lessons Ideas for Minds On questions Text-to-text, text-to-self, text-to-world based questions and connections (additional resource...
Homelessness Lesson Plan: Grades 4-6
Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless
Division: Junior Subject: Media, Language Additional Skill: Independent Work, Team Work/Collaboration, Research Lesson idea Examples for Assessment As/For Learning (worksheets, big idea questions)...
Homelessness on the Home Front
Jennifer M. Canady
Division: Intermediate Subject: Language Arts, Social Studies American lesson that can be adapted to the Ontario Curriculum Lesson ideas Learning goal ideas Includes ideas for Assessment As, For and...
Shedding Light on an ‘Invisible’ Problem
Michelle Sale
Yasmin Chin Eisenhauer
Division: Late Junior - Intermediate Subject: Language Arts Complete website available: (http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2002/03/25/shedding-light-on-an-invisible-problem/?_r=0) Lesson plan idea...