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Introduction
Introduction
Welcome to Week E of our lessons on human wellbeing. This week we will be investigating housing affordability and youth homelessness.
In this first lesson we will learn about the important issue of youth homelessness.
Watch the video for an introduction to this lesson.
Activity 1 - Myths
Activity 1 - Myths
A significant portion of Australia’s homeless are young people. The 2016 Census highlighted some concerning figures:
28,000 Australians aged 12-25 are homeless on any given night.
young people represent 24% of the homelessness population in Australia, but only 16% of the general population.
Rather than rough sleeping on the street as we may typically think about homelessness, young homeless people are much more likely to be found living in a very overcrowded dwelling.
Youth Homelessness Matters Day Campaign Kit.pdfTask
Task
Access the Youth Homeless Matters Day campaign kit and read about the myths surrounding youth homelessness.
Using the information you have read, complete the table. You may download the document or draw the table in your workbook.
Select the icon to open the Myths around youth homelessness table in Google Docs. Then select 'Use Template' to create a copy for yourself.
Select the icon to open the Myths around youth homelessness table (docx 340KB). It will automatically download to your computer.
Activity 2 - Reflection
Activity 2 - Reflection
Task
Task
Reflect on what you have learnt in this activity on youth homelessness.
Use this to complete a response using each of the sentence starters below:
I used to think …
Now I think …
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Activity 3 - Create
Activity 3 - Create
Youth Homelessness Matters Day raises awareness about the important issue of homelessness in young people. The campaign kit you explored in activity 1 provides a lot of information and resources to support the raising of awareness.
Task
Task
Create your own poster or infographic to add to the campaign kit for Youth Homelessness Matters Day. Make it as creative or informative as you like.
Handing in your work
Handing in your work
Don't forget to hand in the work you completed today!
Your teacher will have told you to do one of the following:
Upload any digital documents you created and any photos you took of your written work to your Learning Management system (MS Teams, Google Classroom for example).
Email any digital documents you created and any photos you took of your written work to your teacher.
Make sure you keep any hand written work you did in your exercise book or folder as your teacher may need to see these when you are back in class.
Student reflection
Student reflection
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