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Lesson 2: Shelter Types in Our Community
General Purposes or Goals
To stimulate curiosity, build interest, and get students into the habit of actively observing the range of shelter types that exist locally; and develop knowledge, understanding, appreciation, and life application regarding shelter considerations and the factors that con- tribute to people’s decisions about shelter.
Main Ideas to Develop
• There is a range of shelter types in our local community.
• Natural factors that contribute to the type of shelters that can be built in an area
include climatic conditions, building materials found locally in large quantities, and physical features (terrain including hills, mountains, valleys, plains, and bodies of water such as lakes and rivers).
• Factors that contribute to family decisions about the type of shelter the family will select include location in the community, cost, cultural influences, and personal preferences.
Assessment
Tell the students to imagine that they are local real estate agents familiarizing a newcomer to the types of homes available. Give each individual student a stack of cards depicting shelter types and ask him/her to identify those that illustrate homes found in the local area. When students have completed the task, conduct a class discussion focusing on their responses and their reasoning. If time permits, have students select one card depicting a shelter type not found in the local area and explain in writing where it would most likely be found and why.
Lesson 3: Shelter Types Around the World
General Purposes or Goals
To stimulate curiosity as well as build appreciation for the diversity of shelter types in the world, understood as inventive adaptations to time and place; to recognize and explain the types of shelters that would and would not be appropriate in the local environment; and to explain how people adapt to their local environment when making choices associated with shelter.
Main Ideas to Develop
• Geographic features, culture, economic resources, and personal preferences are among the factors that figure into people’s choices about the type of shelter they will have.
• People all over the world adapt to their environment, and as a result there are many types of shelters. Until recently, housing construction reflected the availability of local materials. This pattern still exists in some places, but in other places modern transpor- tation has allowed choices to be expanded.
Assessment
[Make sure you model what you expect by completing your own form.]
Have students complete a series of open-ended statements. [Consider inviting upper-
grade mentors to assist in the student writing.]
• The shelter type I would like to learn more about is because
.
• The things I already know about this shelter type are and
.
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