Week One

Monday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

-Social Studies and Math

-Social Studies

-Science

-Science and Social Studies

-Introduce homelessness

-Discuss homelessness in
America

-Review previously learned

knowledge by discussing why
students think the percentage
of homeless individuals varies
by country. Use this
discussion to introduce factors
of government, culture, and
economy.

-Lesson about weather and

climate: types of weather,
reading weather maps

-Science lesson about

weather: differences in
weather across the globe

-Students discuss with their

partner what types of
weather they commonly see
in the region they live
-Activity where students
read different weather maps
to determine the weather

-Social students activity

that requires students to
synthesize science
knowledge learned about
weather to determine how
weather impacts homeless
individuals in different
areas of the world

-Science, Social Studies,

Literacy

-Science, Social Studies,

Literacy

-Story writing: Students

individually write a story
about a homeless individual
that they create based on
their assigned country.

-Students have time to work

with their group on the
culminating assessment
activity.

-Video to activate prior

knowledge about homelessness:
-Explaining homelessness:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=hZ4rudkHZBQ
-Faces of homelessness/myth
debunking:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=GdkfExfOYOA

-Math activity: use data and

percentages to compare
occurrence of homelessness
in different countries
-Discussion: Are there
differences in the
occurrence of homelessness
in different countries? Why
do these differences exist?

-Students will be divided into

small groups based on a
country that they will be
assigned to research

-Science

-Science and Social Studies

-Social Studies

-Lesson about geography and

weather: how does geography
affect weather

-Lesson about natural

hazards

-Mini-lesson about prejudice

and tolerance

-Simulation about mountains and

how that impacts the weather of
surrounding areas

-Group discussion about

how natural hazards create
higher rates of
homelessness

-Discuss cultural implications

of homelessness

-Have a conversation to develop

rules for discussions (participate,
take turns, dont have to raise
hand, be aware of who is talking,
use personal experience, be
respectful of others ideas)

Week Two

Tuesday

-Social Studies

-Introduce culminating
assessment activity: Teacher will
share a shorter story about an
American homeless individual as
an example of what students will
be expected to create. One
country will be assigned to a few
students so that students can meet
in groups to discuss their research
about the country and to peer
review their stories.

-Independent work time for

students to continue
researching their country,
focusing on natural hazards
particular to the area and its
impacts
-Explain rubric for
culminating assessment
activity to students

-Students will conduct

research according to a
planning sheet they will
receive

-Students have time to

individually work on
culminating assessment
activity. Focus of this work
time will be on research.
Students must integrate
knowledge about
homelessness, research about
different countries, and any
other information in order to
design the story detailing the
life and experiences of the
homeless individual.
-Homework: Students begin
writing a story about a
homeless individual that they
create based on their assigned
country.

-Conferencing with teacher

-Students peer review their

stories.