Lesson summary
This lesson explores the understandings that young people have about homelessness and identifies the various factors that contribute to a person becoming homeless. Students will work in small groups, completing a Think, Pair, Share visible thinking routine to share their understanding, while developing explanation and reasoning skills. They will then watch the opening scene of Life After The Oasis documentary, to help highlight the factors associated with youth homelessness, investigating health data about the current state of youth homelessness in Australia.
Learning intentions:
Students will...
- develop reasoning and explanation skills
- explore the various perspectives that people have about homelessness
- understand the various factors that contribute to homelessness
- access and analyse health data, to better understand the state of homelessness in Australia
Success criteria:
Students can...
- explore the beliefs about homelessness from various perspectives
- identify the key themes associated with homelessness
- identify some of the factors that contribute to homelessness
- locate and interpret health information about homelessness from credible and reliable sources
Lesson guides and printables
Lesson details
Curriculum mapping
Australian curriculum content descriptions:
Health and Physical Education Year 9 and 10:
- Critically analyse and apply health information from a range of sources to health decisions and situations (ACPPS095)
Syllabus outcomes: PDHPE5.6, PDHPE5.7, PDHPE5.8
General capabilities: Literacy, Ethical Understanding, Personal and social capability
Relevant parts of Year 9 & 10 achievement standards: Students access, synthesise and apply health information from credible sources to propose and justify responses to health situations
Unit of work: Life After The Oasis – HPE
Time required: 80 mins
Level of teacher scaffolding: Low – facilitate class discussion and swap card activity
Resources required
- Student Worksheets – one copy per student
- Device capable of presenting a video to the class
- Handling Sensitive Topics And Controversial Issues Factsheet – teacher copy (optional)
- Large piece of paper/butchers paper – one per group
- Statistics Share Cards – printed and cut out
Skills
This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:
- Collaboration
- Communication
- Critical thinking
- Empathy
- Social skills
Additional info
This resource has been adapted from ‘Teaching Social Issues Through English’ developed with the English Teachers Association NSW and the ‘Youth Homelessness Matters Resource’ developed by Janice Atkin. You can find these resources here.
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