Home Free: exploring issues of homelessness

  • Division: Primary, Junior, Intermediate
  • Subject: Social Studies, Language Arts, The Arts (Visual Art, Drama, Dance), Science
  • Includes Learning Goals and Objectives
  • Includes Ontario Curricular Expectations and Connections
  • Includes ideas for Assessment As, For and Of Learning

I sensed a ‘tipping point’ – a readiness for schools to engage in this issue. Yet, everywhere I looked including university nursing and social work programs, there was very little curriculum material on homelessness. The next logical step was to approach our friends at the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario.

Grade level: 
Primary
Location: 
Toronto, ON
Publication Date (YYYY): 
2008