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.

Concepts

human rights, housing, global perspectives, the global community, the global economy, poverty, homelessness, the universal declaration of human rights

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Additional Tags

social studies

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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

Common Core

RH.9-10.4 RH.9-10.5 RH.11-12.4 RH.11-12.5