Canadian Observatory on Homelessness
The Canadian Observatory on Homelessness is the largest national research institute devoted to homelessness in Canada. The COH is the curator of the Homeless Hub.
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The Canadian Observatory on Homelessness is the largest national research institute devoted to homelessness in Canada. The COH is the curator of the Homeless Hub.
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Units For Primary
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...
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...
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...
Division: Kindergarten, Primary, Junior, Intermediate
Subjects: Social Studies, Language (writing and oral communication), Visual Arts
Includes 3 part lesson ideas
Includes connections between...
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,...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
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...