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This Respect My Rights, Respect My Dignity: Module Two – Housing is A Human Right unit plan also includes:
Take learners on a journey throughout the world to discover how other people live. Scholars experience a taste of what life feels like for those in poverty and without housing. Activities include discussions, building a cardboard house, role playing, and small group work.
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Instructional Ideas
- Assign a project where learners take it a step further and research an entire day in the life of a person their age in another country with an inadequate housing situation
- Flip your classroom by assigning the slum activity as homework
Classroom Considerations
- The resource stands as the second in a three-part series about global human rights
- Take extra care in how to discuss topics with class members that may deal with poverty on a daily basis
Pros
- Brainstorms ideas for how to make a plan of action
- Provides figures to explain complicated concepts
- Puts the scholars in other people's shoes through exercises that build empathy skills
Cons
- None