Social Education Lessons- Class (Wealth and Poverty)

Lesson One: Monday 7th September Economic Stereotypes

- Economic stereotypes
- What is class? What is wealth? What is poverty?
- Half paper- draw wealth, draw poverty. Discuss ideas.
- Read Herbert and Harry by Pamela Allen.
- Groups of 4-5 place cards on floor from least
important/essential to most important/essential and discuss.
- Class lolly game (in 3 separate classes)
- If time, view videos of giving(The best communication is
giving)
- Discuss giving individuals, ways in which to help those less
fortunate.
Lesson Two: Monday 14th September Homelessness
- What is homelessness? Stereotypes related? (On board)
- Statistics and facts on homelessness in Australia
- Video of man giving homeless man $100
- Draw their home and write words around it to describe it.
Close your eyes and imagine your home and feelings related
- Tour of school: each receive a map of school, must wander around and
explore the most suitable areas to sleep and why. Take pictures on iPads of
most suitable areas.
- Discussion back in class: Are these sheltered from the weather? Are they
unsafe areas? Could people see you from the street?
- Complete glasses activity: viewing the world through the eyes of the
homeless, write down how you would feel.
- Compare results to their own feelings and emotions at their home
- Pretending to be a homeless person get in groups of 4-5 and explore
essential belongings. Choose 5 and place most essential/most important
in a container/pocket. Discuss results.
- List of what we can do to help
- Extension: write a letter explaining homelessness and persuading
people of why we should care.

Homelessness

There are 105,237 people who are homeless in Australia in 2014

23,000 people in Victoria are homeless today
7,000 of these are aged between 12 and 25
on any given night, there are 105,000 homeless people in Australia,
enough to fill the MCG. [1]
Of these people, 42% are under the age of 25.
Today nearly 1 in 3[1] homeless people nationally are living in
severely overcrowded conditions, where they are without privacy, without
enough living space, access to kitchen facilities and a bathroom, and
without choice.
There are over 22,000 people that are homeless or marginally
housed in Victoria, and of these, about half are young people under 25
years of age. In 2011, 68,500 women, men and children accessed
homelessness services in Victoria. Almost 60% of homelessness service
users are aged under 25.
Only 51% of homeless youths stay within the Victorian school
system.
Lesson Outline
1. Statistics of homelessness
2. Video of homeless man
3. Draw your house- write words around it, close eyes and record
any feelings and emotions related to your home
4. Tour of school: must wander around and explore the most
suitable areas to sleep and why. Take pictures on iPads of most
suitable areas.
- Discussion back in class: Are these sheltered from the
weather? Are they unsafe areas? Could people see you from
the street?
Physical, Personal &
Social Learning
Interpersonal
development :
Students participate in a
range of classroom
activities where they
explore the similarities
and differences in the
values and beliefs of a
range of individuals and
groups. They explore and
discuss behaviours which
demonstrate sensitivity
to cultural differences in

Discipline-based
Learning
- English
In Levels 5 and 6,
students communicate
with peers and teachers
from other classes and
schools, community
members, and individuals
and groups, in a range of
face-to-face and
online/virtual
environments.
Plan, draft and publish

Interdisciplinary Skills
Communication:
They use their
understanding of
communication
conventions to
communicate effectively
with peers and to
respond appropriately
when they are part of an
audience.
They practise listening
attentively to identify and
communicate main
points to others.

their interactions with

others.
Personal Learning:
Through participation in a
variety of group and
whole-class activities,
students begin to
articulate the advantages
of learning effectively
with, and from, their
peers. They seek
feedback from peers and
consider the validity of
the feedback they
receive.

Civics and Citizenship:

Students research an
issue, or issues using a
range of resources
including electronic
media. These could
include current local,
national and global
issues; for example,
natural disasters and
human rights issues.
They consider actual and
possible actions by
citizens and nations in
response to the issue/s.
Students explore ways in
which they can actively
participate in their school
and community. They
investigate the qualities
of leadership through
past and present
examples.

imaginative, informative
and persuasive print and
multimodal texts,
choosing text
structures, language
features, images and
sound appropriate to
purpose
and audience (ACELY170
4)
Clarify understanding of
content as it unfolds in
formal and informal
situations, connecting
ideas to students own
experiences and present
and justify a point
of view (ACELY1699)
- The Humanities
Economics
Level 5 & 6: As students
work towards the
achievement of Level 6
standards in Economics,
they learn about the
nature of the economic
problem (scarcity): that
is, that our needs and
wants are unlimited but
the resources available to
satisfy these wants are
limited.
-The Arts:
They learn about ways to
design, improvise,
represent, interpret,
make and present arts
works that communicate
feelings and their
interests and
understanding of
themselves, their
relationships and other
people.

When making meaning,

students continue to
develop skills in asking
clarifying questions and
seeking validation of
their interpretations from
their peers.
Thinking Processes: As
students work towards
the achievement of Level
6 standards in Thinking
Processes, they make
observations and pose
questions about people
and events within and
beyond their own
experience, and develop
a growing awareness of
the complexity of the
world around them.
ICT:
Level 5 &6 : They apply
known ICT
tools for visualising
thinking in new ways to
make links between
existing and new
knowledge.
Use iPads to take
photographs.