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Main Ideas to Develop
• Location, climatic conditions, availability of materials, cost, family size and composition are among the factors to consider when attempting to identify and “design” the ideal home.
• Individual tastes and preferences enter into the decision-making process.
Assessment
After completing the home assignment, as a family create a journal entry entitled “A Day in Our Ideal Home.” Imagine that a guest was coming to your house to look at it—what would s/he see as s/he walked up the sidewalk, drove into the driveway, looked out the back door? Or imagine that a guest was coming to your house to look at it—describe four things you would want your guest to see.
Another option might be to have the students “talk into a tape recorder” explaining their ideal homes.
Lesson 11: Homelessness
General Purposes or Goals
To help students understand that in extreme cases people are unable to pay for shelter and may become homeless and to acquire a sensitivity for homeless people and a desire to practice citizenship as it relates to assisting others in need.
We recommend that you use children’s literature to facilitate discussion about home- lessness. Suggested sources include Someplace to Go (Testa, 1996) and Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen (DiSalvo-Ryan, 1991).
Main Ideas to Develop
• Sometimes people cannot pay for shelter and utilities due to unemployment or under- employment, and some become homeless. Often these circumstances are due to illness, fire, flooding, loss of jobs, or accumulation of bills.
• People who are homeless can secure help from community organizations (e.g., the United Way, Rescue Mission, Salvation Army, or religious organizations).
• As members of the community, we can contribute to organizations that assist people in need by donating time, food, money, and clothing.
Assessment
Have students respond to three open-ended statements:
1. Reasons people might become homeless might include ,
2. Our community helps homeless people by
3. I can help homeless people by
and .
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