Lesson 2-What Is A Home? Lesson 3-Understanding The Issue. Lesson 5-What Did We Learn? Welcome to a site dedicated to teaching children about homelessness and advocating for making our communities better for all people! How do people become homeless? What is a home? What problems do homeless people face? What can we do to better the lives of everyone in our community? Create a free website.

This collection of lesson plans is intended for middle school-age students and needs to be taught whole-heartedly. The Lesbian, Gay, bisexual, Transgender Community is a very controversial topic and is not to be taken lightly. Please leave your thoughts and comments on the blogging. To view other webpages of my colleagues, please click here.

My Race, Your Race, Our Human Race! Racial Awareness and Tolerance in Kindergartners. We live in a confusing world. And our own individual cultures presents ways in which we grow and change our constructed identity daily. How do we approach these issues with Kindergartners in an honest, yet sensitive way? Throughout this unit, you will find five different lessons focused on the construction, the notions, and the social contexts that racial identities carry. I focused these lessons on.

Here you can find a unit plan that I created that has helped me develop as a teacher in Social Studies. I will access this page as I head into my student teaching semester and add lessons, unit plans, and other resources to this site throughout my teaching career.

Learning About Community and Social Action. The lessons were created Fall 2009 as part of my Teaching Social Studies methods course at the University of Wisconsin - Madison under the instruction of Katy Swalwell. Mapping the Neighborhood Lesson Plan. Mapping the neighborhood lesson plan. My Neighborhood Through Photography Lesson. What is a Community? .